Medieval manuscripts blog

17 July 2018

Digitised Manuscripts hyperlinks July 2018

Hot on the heels of our recent announcement that the British Library's Anglo-Saxon charters are now online, we are pleased to provide you with another phenomenally fantastic list of digitised manuscripts hyperlinks. As usual, we are making this list available to download in two formats: as a PDF and as an Excel spreadsheet.

A quick glance reveals that no fewer than 2,336 of the Library's ancient, medieval and early modern manuscripts are now on Digitised Manuscripts, from Add Ch 19788 (a grant of King Wulfhere of the Mercians) to Yates Thomson MS 51 (Skazanie o Mamaevom Poboishche, 'The Tale of the Rout of Mamai', in Russian Church Slavonic). More are being added weekly to that number. It's always worth checking our Twitter feed, @BLMedieval, for the latest updates.

Here are just a few of the items on Digitised Manuscripts. We hope you enjoy trawling through the list to find your own highlights.

A detached leaf from a medieval manuscript, showing a portrait of St Dunstan as a bishop writing at his desk.

Miniature of St Dunstan as a bishop (Canterbury, 12th century): Royal MS 10 A XIII/1

A papyrus containing a memorandum for a trip to Constantinople, written in Ancient Greek.

Memorandum for a trip to Constantinople (Egypt, 5th–6th century): Papyrus 2237

A page from William Bruggys' Garter Book, showing a portrait of St George.

William Bruggys' Garter Book (England, 15th century): Stowe MS 594, f. 5v

A page from a 13th-century miscellany of Anglo-Norman poetry.

An Anglo-Norman verse miscellany (England or France, 13th century): Harley MS 4388, f. 2v


A page from the Caligula Troper, showing a portrait of St Stephen.

The Caligula Troper (England, 11th century): Cotton MS Caligula A XIV, f. 3v. You will be able to see more of our early medieval manuscripts in person in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition, opening at the Library on 19 October.

 

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