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  • Book of Kells@
    Explore Book of Kells, the copy of four Gospels in Latin, through sites which feature history, digital version, and images.
    dir.yahoo.com/.../Medieval/Book_of_Kells
  • British Library: Harley 4751
    Offers a bibliographic description and images from a 13th century bestiary.
    prodigi.bl.uk/illcat/record.asp?MSID=8797&CollID=8
  • Burnet Psalter, The
    Features a 15th century manuscript bequeathed to Marischal College at Aberdeen University.
    www.abdn.ac.uk/~lib083/bps
  • Charrette Project, The
    Features Le Chevalier de la Charrette by Chrétien de Troyes.
    www.princeton.edu/~lancelot
  • Kirby I: A Book of Hours
    Late 15th century manuscript. Contains a liturgical calendar, a litany of the saints, suffrages, the Office of the Dead, and the Penitential Psalms.
    win-www.uia.ac.be/u/pavp/genea/kirby/index.html
  • Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (2)
    Find sites for the Tres Riches Heures or the Book of Hours, the medieval illuminated manuscript which contains prayers for each of the canonical hours of the day.
    dir.yahoo.com/.../Individual_Manuscripts/Les_Tres_Riches_Heures_du_Duc_de_Berry
  • Life of King Edward the Confessor, The
    Online copy of the illustrated Anglo-Norman verse, written in England in the later 1230s or early 1240s.
    www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MSS/Ee.3.59
  • Royal Danish Library: Bestiarius GKS 1633
    Online version of a 15th century bestiary illustrated with more than 100 drawings.
    www.kb.dk/elib/mss/gks1633
  • Royal Danish Library: Philippe de Thaon's Bestiary, GKS 3466
    Online version of de Thaon's c. 1300 guide to animals and their characteristics.
    www.kb.dk/elib/mss/gks3466
  • Saint John's Bible, The
    Handwritten, illuminated Bible commissioned by Saint John's University and created under the direction of calligrapher Donald Jackson.
    www.saintjohnsbible.org
  • Wikipedia: Codex Gigas
    Have a look at the photos and read the history of the largest extant medieval manuscript in the world. Also known as the Devil's Bible due to a large illustration of the devil.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Gigas
 


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