"This manual was created in the course of various cultural heritage-projects at the Department of Medieval Studies at Central European University, Budapest. It should offer basic information on the topic Medieval Manuscripts to be comprehended and utilized also by non-specialists in the field. It might be applied as general background knowledge, teaching module, and distance learning unit
- for the description of specific surviving objects of our European medieval cultural heritage, and
- for the composition of appropriate multi-media applications to serve a wider international public.
The Free Library of Philadelphia's collection of medieval & renaissance manuscripts.
Not only does this site provide an introduction to manuscript studies and images of the manuscripts themselves; it also provides technical notes on the process of digitization, description and cataloguing.
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