Intute presents the 15 most recent Web resources for education and research added to our Manuscript Studies subject area 11 Mar 2010 03:30:01 GMT en-uk http://www.intute.ac.uk/mss/latest.html Logo for the Intute service http://www.intute.ac.uk/images/intute_100_new.png 100 42 http://www.intute.ac.uk/mss/latest.html http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20100116-18001191 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20100116-18001191 This website publishes a database of pictures and transcriptions of ancient manuscripts (originating in the first centuries AD) conserved in northeastern Italy and coming from the archives of Aquileia, an important Roman colony and later Christian patriarchate. The ancient musical format of the "monodia" (chanted lament) resisted later influences in the area and became typical of the Christian tradition of the area. The manuscripts that have been made available are all Late Antiquity / Early Medieval volumes with Christian texts and music used for liturgical celebrations. The website is in Italian, and at the time of review it was largely incomplete and being updated. However, the pictures of some full manuscripts are already available and researchers interested in these manuscripts may find them useful, along with bibliographic references and some texts. In particular, some miniatures, liturgical texts and musical notations may be useful to researchers in the fields of history of music; art and religious studies. Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=vim-2010127-162022 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=vim-2010127-162022 The Aleppo Codex home page offers digitised images of and information about this medieval manuscript. The Codex was the oldest known complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible (although parts of it were lost after the manuscript was damaged in 1947). In addition to high-quality zoomable images of the work itself, the site also offers a series of articles. These include a general introduction, plus information about: the Bible text and its transmission; the Masoretes (scribes who aimed to preserve and hand down an accurate biblical text); the physical state and history of the Codex; and location and care of the Codex today. The site is available in English and Hebrew. Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=humbul5674 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=humbul5674 Umilta is a selection of twelve interwoven websites on ancient religious texts. Users will find online, illustrated articles on: Julian of Norwich; St Brigitta of Sweden; women and the bible; Benedictinism; and the British Library Amherst Manuscript Project. Users will also find a bibliography section and a selection of book reviews. The resource is vast, and the multiple links in the body of texts and numerous title headings can make it confusing to navigate. Nevertheless, manuscript scholars will find voice recordings of chants and texts, images of illuminated manuscripts and icons, translations of texts, and numerous links to other web resources of interest (such as archive catalogues). The resource would be of value to anyone with an interest in religious manuscripts, if enough time is invested to navigate the site's often confusing layout. Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20100104-22462950 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20100104-22462950 Comptes des chatellenies Savoyardes is a website which provides images taken from 13th and 14th-century account rolls, using them in a number of self-guided palaeography exercises. The site is entirely written in French, but for those without French-language skills the exercises (based on Latin texts) are extremely easy to use and would therefore constitute useful practice for anyone already studying medieval palaeography. Small sections of document, in a number of different types of hands, are shown in facsimile, under which users type their transcription word by word and line by line. Success in transcription is indicated by coloured highlights showing whether the answer is correct or contains errors. The correct transcription is hidden at the bottom of the page, as well as beneath the manuscript image, and users can click on lines at any time to check their progress. This site is related to a parent site which provides detailed images of account rolls of the House of Savoy. Mon, 4 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=vim-20091212-233135 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=vim-20091212-233135 The website of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) provides information about this organisation, which exists under the umbrella of the Center for the Research of Early Christian Documents (CRECD). One of the Center's main projects is the photographing of Greek New Testament manuscripts, with the aim of making these available as widely as possible. The website offers free access to dozens of high-quality digital images of manuscripts and fragments from museums and archives around the world. The Center also promotes (and engages in) biblical textual criticism, and there are a number of resources on the site aimed at those working in this field, including an interesting blog. However, it is the digital images that are likely to be of most interest to New Testament scholars. Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091120-20330585 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091120-20330585 Part of the J. Paul Getty Museum website, this online resource was produced to complement their exhibition, which ran from 12 August to 26 October 2008, entitled 'Faces of Power and Piety: Medieval Portraiture', and which featured portraits from illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages (circa 500-1500). Medieval portraiture does not present us with a precise likeness of the subject, but instead depicts clothing, heraldry or other objects relating to them. As the website states "the goal of medieval portraiture was to present a subject not at a particular moment in time, but as the person wished to be remembered through the ages". This online selection from the exhibition features portraits of Saints Blaise, Veronica, Hedwig, Luke, and Bellinus, as well as authors and patrons. Each image may be enlarged, and audio samples provide additional information for three of the paintings. An illustrated checklist of 22 paintings from the exhibition can be found in a PDF file via a hyperlink. Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091028-12264211 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091028-12264211 This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'English Episcopal Acta, 1064-1305' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as tab delimited files. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. The Episcopal Acta Project collects and edits the surviving charters issued by English bishops from the Norman Conquest to the start of bishops' registers in each diocese. It aims to provide information about the English Church from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. The Episcopal Acta Database was designed in 1995-6 in conjunction with the British Academy Computing officer. In 2002 a searchable front end was developed. Each individual manuscript of a document edited in the English Episcopal Acta Series has a record entry within the database, recording provenance, dates, sealing and measurements for documents surviving as original charters, a description of contents, notes on the charter as contained in the series, and details of previous printings of the documents again as contained in the printed series. There is also a link to a full transcript of the charter as edited in the printed series. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090227-09293024 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090227-09293024 This Web page reports on an AHRC-funded project centred around research into the British Library's collection of 1,950 manuscripts donated by King George II in 1757. Maintained as a collection (labelled 'ROYAL') since this time, they represent the largest surviving collection of medieval illumination and painting owned by English monarchs. The grant will enable the first ever major research project into the collection, resulting in an exhibition in 2011, as well as being added to the Library's online Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts. There will also be an online tour of the collection. The project is a collaboration between the British Library and the Courtauld Institute of Art. Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090227-10155670 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090227-10155670 This website describes the Wollaton collection at the University of Nottingham, and the Heritage Lottery Fund and AHRC funded work to conserve, catalogue and provide access to and raise awareness of this important manuscript collection. The collection comprises "a rare and significant corpus of medieval textual and material artefacts", which once formed part of the Willoughby family's collections at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham. The collections significant is found in ten medieval manuscripts "which include a number of important vernacular literary texts from the 13th to 15th centuries. Works in English, French and Anglo Norman, and two texts in Latin, range in subject from romance and poetry to moral literature for the laity and lives of saints". With a long association with the Willoughby family, these manuscripts, although fragile, have little modern conservation and maintain evidence of their medieval creation. There are a further 42 rare printed books. The website includes descriptions of key items in the collection as well as information about the complimentary Heritage Lottery Fund (focussing on conservation, cataloguing a digitisation) and AHRC (examining the significance of the medieval manuscripts and the imporatnce of the library as a whole) research projects. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090924-15110964 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090924-15110964 The Manuscripts of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre is an electronic resource which can be downloaded from the website of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS). The resource consists of a collection of PNG images, providing a facsimile of the entire manuscript collection of the French writer and botanist Bernardin de Saint-Pierre in the library at Le Havre, France, plus images of the correspondence exchanged between Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Hennin, held in the library of the Institut de France. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090806-11430272 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090806-11430272 This website, from the Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan, provides free online access to a valuable source of historical information on London's history, and particularly a history of funeral processions. The website provides access to a London Provisioner's Chronicles, from 1550-1563, as well as information on the original manuscript and its history, the original transcription of the manuscript, the enhanced text, and the modernisation of the text. Furthermore, the text can be searched by keyword or browsed chronologically. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090806-11295799 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090806-11295799 This website, from the Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan, provides free online access to the court rolls of Ramsey, Hepmangrove and Bury from 1268-1600. The rolls were originally published as microfiche but are now available online through this fantastic resource. The rolls are an excellent primary source resource for those interested in the lives of ordinary people in the Midlands of England during this period. Users can either browse through the entire list (published chronologically), or do a 'simple', 'proximity' or 'boolean' search. Information is also provided on census data at this time. A highly useful online resource. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090830-18200414 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090830-18200414 Rukopisnye pamiatniki Drevnei Rusi is the website of a non-commercial organisation of the same name, created by the V. V. Vinogradov Institute of Russian Language (Russian Academy of Sciences) and the publisher Iazyki slavianskikh kul'tur'. A distinguished panel of academic advisors includes eminent scholars such as V. M. Zhivov and A. A. Turilov. The organisation aims to make early Russian manuscripts freely available on the internet, and is responsible for the creation of the excellent 'Drevnerusskie berestianye gramoty', catalogued separately. Other collections include 'a complete collection of Russian chronicles' (PSRL) and 'the manuscript book', which includes: an early Russian translation of Flavius Josephus' History of the Jewish Wars; a Psalter of 1683 translated by Avraam Firsov; The Ostromir Gospel 1056-1057; a Rule dating from the end of the eleventh or beginning of the twelfth century, edited by B.A. Uspenskii. These are currently accessible only with written permission, obtained by emailing the organisation as advised. There is also: a page of information about the organisation; a (limited) links page; a news page. This Russian language-only site will be of most use to researchers and teachers of early Russian culture, language and history. Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090709-18264438 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090709-18264438 The institutional repository of the University of Salamanca is an online collection of resources divided in four sections: digital library; research archive; didactic materials; and institutional and administrative documents. The digital library offers electronic versions of historical books; manuscripts; and periodicals physically held at the university. Documents were produced during the medieval and modern periods; and they are in Latin or Spanish. Also for researchers, there is a repository of research publications by scholars from the University of Salamanca. These cover all subjects, and materials can be searched or browsed by discipline; research group; PhD theses, and more. For tutors and lecturers there is a section with didactic materials and lecture notes. Users should note that, at the time of cataloguing, the number of resources in this area was somewhat limited. However, it is recommended to visit the Open Course Ware section in which it is possible to download whole course materials for units such as: "Linguistics applied to translation"; "Contemporary History of Europe: 20th Century"; and "History of Spain: Modern Period". The language of these materials is Spanish. Search options available make it easy to locate resources within the whole bank of materials. Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090626-11593742 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090626-11593742 The electronic collection of the University of Seville acts as a digital repository of historical photographs; PhD theses; and digitised version of old printed books, journals and manuscripts. The collection is divided in three clear sections for each type of materials. The electronic collection of ancient and rare materials includes books, newspapers and manuscripts from the 15th to the 20th century. It can be browsed by subject and date of publication; or the user may alternatively perform a free-text search using the many options available. The photographic library is the digital version of a project which began in 1907 to create a library of art images, although it expanded soon after to include other photographs which today are invaluable for the contemporary history of Spain, and Andalucia in particular. The repository of PhD theses offers electronic versions of doctoral works in a wide variety of disciplines. For all collections search options and navigation are available in English, but information pages and most text contents are in Spanish only. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT