Subject guides: History: Medieval History

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British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval & Renaissance (1100 - 1660)
Author manuscripts primarily in Middle and Early Modern English, with some Old English materials, from the collections of the British Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the National Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the National Library of Scotland.

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Middle English Compendium
Access to three major Middle English electronic resources, - Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.

Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
Edited and published sources for the study of German history from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500.

Also available online at: http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/search/static.html

These are just some of the published materials available in print on the shelves.

Processus contra Templarios
Call Number: Fisher Rare Bk RB 5507.1 and RB 5509.1
From the Vatican Secret Archives, a facsimile reproduction of the original Latin documents (A.A., Arm. D. 208-210, 217-218; Reg. Aven. 48) on the trial against the Templars, with transcriptions and commentaries in English and Italian.
Medieval narrative sources : a chronological guide
Also contains a list of major letter collections.

The following links go to sites that contain, or indicate how to find, primary sources.

Also look at the links under eResources.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook
The Labyrinth
Narrative sources from the Medieval Low Countries
critical survey of all the narrative sources originating from the medieval Low Countries. The database is intended to inventory all texts written in order to describe the past in a narrative way: annals, chronicles, letters, diaries, poems, saint's lives, genealogies
Epistolae: Medieval Women's Letters
A collection of letters to and from women dating from the 4th to the 13th century AD. The letters, written in Latin, are presented with English translations.

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Dr. Joan Ferrante, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, of Columbia University has collected and translated these letters mainly from printed sources.
The Orb Online Reference Book
Free site containing an encyclopedia, textbooks and links for primary sources with translations and transcriptions
Parker Library on the Web
Digital copies of items spanning from the sixth-century Gospels of St. Augustine to sixteenth-century records of the Reformation from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The browse, images and descriptions are free to view.

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Matthew Parker (1504-75) salvaged medieval manuscripts dispersed at the dissolution of the monasteries.

These are gateways linking to other sites.

These are just some of the rich archival materials reproduced onto microfilm and fiche available in the collection.

Lincoln Cathedral Library : the mediaeval manuscript collection.
The subject matter includes theology, canon law, devotional books, music and literature, 83 microfilm reels.
Mediaeval manuscripts at Lambeth Palace Library
Section 3 : the illuminated manuscripts.
Medieval literary and historical manuscripts in the Cotton Collection from the British Library
Robert Cotton was a noted collector of manuscripts. Pt. 2. Reels 22-25 Cotton Caligula-Cotton Claudius contains works such as the Chronicles of Henry V and state papers; Piers Plowman; correspondence of Lanfrance; poems by Lydgate.
Westminster Abbey Library, the early manuscript collection
Contains 45 manuscripts and fragments of mostly late medieval manuscripts. 12 reels.
Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in microfiche facsimile.
v. 1. Books of prayers and healing -- v. 2. Psalters --v. 3. Anglo-Saxon gospels -- v. 4. Glossed texts, Aldhelmiana, psalms -- v. 5. Latin manuscripts with Anglo-Saxon glosses. 175 microfiche