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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Byzantine church mosaic discovered near Jerusalem World news The Guardian

The Roman Empire
(from UNRV)
Posted by Claudia Ryan at 8:24 AM
Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts: Peter Murray Jones
Posted by Claudia Ryan at 8:01 AM

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Passion in Venice MOBiA Museum of Biblical Art
Posted by Claudia Ryan at 3:06 PM

Monday, February 7, 2011

Smarthistory, a multimedia web-book about art: discussing The Image in Early Medieval Art
Posted by Claudia Ryan at 3:39 PM

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Hand Drawn Maps:Anglo-Saxon London
from the Londonist
Posted by Claudia Ryan at 5:36 PM
The Auchinleck Manuscript
The National Library of Scotland

Oxford University Computing Services
Posted by Claudia Ryan at 5:21 PM

Friday, February 4, 2011



on exhibit through March 13: The Strange World of Albrecht Durer
The Clark Art Institute
Posted by Claudia Ryan at 8:45 AM
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    7 years ago
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    8 years ago
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    13 years ago
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    11 years ago
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    9 years ago
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    17 years ago
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    14 years ago
  • Heavenfield
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    17 years ago
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    11 years ago
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    12 years ago
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  • Aberdeen Bestiary
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  • Ancient and Medieval Electronic Texts
  • Archaeology in Europe
  • Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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  • Bayeux tapestry
  • Beinecke Library
  • Bible Gateway
  • Biblical Art on the WWW
  • Biblioteca Ambrosiana
  • British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
  • British Library Digitized Manuscripts
  • Byzantine Paleography
  • CESG/Codices Electronici Sangallenses/Digital Abbey Library of St.Gallen
  • CHD Denmark
  • Canterbury Tales Project
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  • Cartographic Images
  • Cartography Project
  • Cary Collection
  • Catalogue of Digitized Manuscripts
  • Celt
  • Codex Manesse
  • Columbia University Visual Media Center
  • Corsair/ The Morgan Library
  • Decameron Web
  • Digital Facsimiles in the Netherlands and Abroad
  • Digital Librarian
  • Digital Mirror/Medieval Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales
  • Digital Scriptorium
  • Digitisted Medieval Manuscripts Maps
  • Dr. Dianne Tillotson
  • Dr.Dianne Tillotson/Medieval Writing
  • Duke Papyrus Archive
  • Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
  • Epistolae:Medieval Women's Letters
  • Eureka!
  • Evolution of the Medieval Book
  • Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Flemish Primitives
  • Geoffrey Chaucer Website
  • Google Art Project
  • Griffon's
  • Guild of Bookworkers
  • Harry Ransom Center University of Texas, Austin
  • Hathi Trust Digital Library
  • Heavenly Craft
  • Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
  • Houghton Library
  • Hypertext Book of Hours
  • Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
  • ILAB
  • Iluminated Manuscripts/ Project Gutenburg
  • Incunabula
  • Index of Christian Art/ Princeton University
  • International Dunhuang Project/British Library
  • Internet Archive
  • Internet Medieval Sourcebook/ORB/Fordham University
  • Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts
  • Jeremy Norman's History of Science
  • Labyrinth
  • Leaves of Gold
  • Les Enluminures
  • Les Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry
  • Lexilogos
  • Library of Congress
  • MOBiA
  • Mandragore
  • Medieval Art History
  • Medieval Lands
  • Medieval Manuscript Manual
  • Michael
  • Monastic Matrix
  • Munich Digitization Center
  • NYPL Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
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  • Octavo
  • Packard Humanities Institute Index of Classical Latin Texts
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  • Pitts Theology Library Digital Archive
  • Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project
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  • Rossdhu Book of Hours
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  • Schoenberg Database
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  • The Infancy of Printing
  • The Medieval Bestiary
  • The Orb
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  • University of Arizona Facsimiles of Illuminated Manuscripts Special Collections
  • Utrecht Psalter
  • VADS online resource for visual arts
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  • Vetus Latina Latin Gospel Manuscripts
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  • World Digital Library
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