You should know about: Digital Scriptorium
akumler on Oct 16 2007 at 9:45 am | Filed under: Doing research, General academic
If you are interested in medieval and/or renaissance manuscripts, Digital Scriptorium is a resource you should know about: http://scriptorium.columbia.edu
A collaborative project involving a long (and growing) list of U.S. repositories, Digital Scriptorium provides access to high-quality digitized images of manuscripts held throughout the United States. At present, the database comprises records for 5,300 manuscripts and for 24,300 images! The catalogue information provided for each manuscript is limited, but it does provide a good starting point for more detailed research.
One particular virtue of Digital Scriptorium: it provides good quality images that may be downloaded, used in Powerpoint presentations, and printed! (N.B. There are some restrictions placed on the number of images that may be used in a single presentation, etc. You can find more information about this in the “using the images” section of the website, under the heading “copyright”).