History - Medieval

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Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts provided by the British Library.

A depository of over 1,000 images provided by the University of Oxford.

Image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts.

Search images from thousands of manuscript and digital art images from Western Europe, Islamic, Eastern Christian and Malta collections located at Hill Museum and Manuscript Library's collections.

" illuminated medieval manuscripts of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum" in the Netherlands.

Exhaustive inventory of historiated and ornamental iconographic decoration from the collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.

Over 1200 medieval manuscripts, and a few modern ones.

'The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM) makes available data on medieval manuscript books of five or more folios produced before 1600."

Links to medieval manuscripts on the web in all languages.

"The Manuscriptorium virtual collection of Arabic manuscripts consists of manuscripts from the National Library of the Czech Republic and from the Basagic Collection of Islamic Manuscripts in the University Library of Bratislava. The Basagic Collection contains unique manuscripts and fundamental works of medieval Islamic scholarly literature and belles-lettres, spanning the period from the 12th to the 19th centuries." Use the search box to locate Arabic manuscripts/

An extensive collection of medieval medical images.

Over 300 Persian and Arabic manuscripts provided by the NLM.

Detailed land survey of England conducted of land held by William the Conqueror and his people.

This site gives an overview of the important components each medieval community would be comprised of.

Wellcome Images is one of the world's richest and most unique collections, with themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science.

The two largest groups of texts are Medieval and Renaissance. No country is excluded from review or listings of primary sources.

Core primary and secondary sources for British History, including the medieval period.