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Search through the Vatican's immense and growing digital collection of manuscripts and other materials that are of interest to scholars of medieval and late antique history and cultures.

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Cambridge Digital Library

Search and browse through a large number of digitized manuscripts from the collections of Cambridge University and its colleges.

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DMMapp: Digitized Medieval Manuscripts app

Search through the medieval manuscript holdings of hundreds of global libraries, with information on library copyright statements, notes about repositories, and much more.

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e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland

Search and browse through many hundreds of digitized medieval manuscripts held in Switzerland's libraries and museums.

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Monastic Manuscript Project

Search a database of manuscript descriptions for texts pertaining to early medieval monasticism, compiled by Albrecht Diem.

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University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center COVID-19 Resources Page

Find images and other resources at the University of Pennsylvania's Kislak Center.

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Digital Bodleian Library (Oxford)

Find digitized manuscripts, maps, books, ephemera and other holdings from Oxford's Bodleian Library.

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Bibliothèque nationale de France

Search for detailed information and high-quality digitized images of medieval manuscripts held in libraries around the world.

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State Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage Museum holds thousands of pieces of artwork and other materials from the fifth through the fifteenth centuries.

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J. Paul Getty Museum

Find a wealth of materials for medievalists.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Explore exhibition gallery guides, videos, articles, and more.

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Google Arts and Culture resources

Find images and information on a wide range of art and cultural resources from Google Arts and Culture.

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The British Museum

Find a list of digital resources dedicated to all eras of the Middle Ages at the British Museum.

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Podcast on the Black Death (in Spanish)

Listen to a podcast, in Spanish, about the Black Death.

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Brill, Covid-19 Collection (available until April 30, 2021)

More than 30 leading STM publishers have committed to making all of their COVID-19 and coronavirus-related publications immediately accessible. Brill has opened up books and articles on topics such as public health, distance learning, crisis research. If any new related content is published with Brill, it will be added to this collection.

The content on this page will be freely accessible until April 30, 2021.

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