Digital Resources for Manuscript Study
Digitized Manuscripts at the British Library
- Any page of the Nowell Codex (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV), which includes Beowulf, is free to access digitally online at the British Library's website
- Includes thousands of other digitized items, including other early medieval English items
- The British Library also offers articles grouping digitized items together, such as "Monsters and Heroes in Beowulf" by Victoria Simons and "Old English" by David Crystal
- Visit Digitized Manuscripts at the British Library here
Digital Scriptorium
- A consortium of American libraries and museums providing free online access to their collections of pre-modern manuscripts
- Visit Digital Scriptorium here
Additional Resources on Medieval Manuscripts
- "Making Manuscripts": YouTube video about the process of making medieval manuscripts by the Getty Museum
- "Ellesmere Chaucer Reproduction": playlist of videos about the stages of making an illuminated manuscript by Bygone Arts
- “Manuscript Studies: Digitized Catalogues, Manuscripts, & Databases”: list of digital resources for manuscript studies, paleography tools, digitized manuscripts, and more by the Medieval Studies Program at the University of Connecticut
- “Paleography”: list of online resources about paleography by The Newberry Library
- “The Book: Making and Meaning in the Medieval Manuscript”: online course about book and manuscript history by Harvard University on edX
