Manuscripts: Germany

• King Henry Library at the Staatsbibliothek, Hamburg. Digitalised and online.
• Hieronymus: De viris illustribus. Seventh century. From the Staatsbibliothek, Bamberg.
• Carmina Burana Manuscript.
• Convent (nunnery) manuscripts from Southern Germany.
• Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters.
• Die digitale Handschriftenbibliothek Koeln Fully-digitalized manuscripts from Cologne.
• Digitalisierte Handschriften "Digitalized Manuscripts": from several German collections.
• Digitalisierte Handschriften, ondersammlungen (Herzog August Bibliothek).
• Digitization Projects in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland With links to each site.
• Fragmenta Augiensia - Reichenauer Handschriftenfragmente. All 215 fragments.
• Freiburger Handschriften Mostly 15th and 16th century manuscripts.
• Miscellaneous 15th century German manuscripts From the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.
• Monumenta Germaniae Historica "This is a monumental collection of medieval documents..."
• Spaetmittelalterliche Bilderhandschriften aus der Bibliotheca Palatina Most are full scans.

Persian and Islamic Manuscripts

• Archivalia. Links to collections of digitalized Islamic manuscripts.
• Caro Minasian Collection of Persian and Arabic Manuscripts. From UCLA.
• Digital Persian Archive. "An Image Database of Persian Historical Documents from Iran and Central Asia up to the 20th Century."
• Search engine for E-Corpus. "e-corpus is a collective digital library that catalogs and disseminates numerous documents: manuscripts, archives, books, journals, prints, audio recordings, video, etc."
• Tazkira of Shaykh Safi al-Din of Ardabil. "Manuscript of the Tazkira ("biographical accounts") of Shaykh Safi al-Din (d.1334), Sufi saint and founder of the Safavid dynasty, dated Sha'ban 990H (August-September 1582), Shiraz. In Persian with Arabic prayers on frontispiece and final folios."
• Nigaristan by Ghaffari. "Manuscript of Nigaristan (anecdotes about key figures in Islam), composed in 1552 by Ahmad b. Muhammad Ghaffari (d.1567), dated 980H (1573) Shiraz."
• Poetry and Prayer. "Islamic Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum." Baltimore, Maryland. A beautiful Web site for an exhibition.
• Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts.
• Islamic Heritage Project: Manuscripts.
• Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan.
• Illuminated Islamic Manuscripts. From Yale University.
• Shanama Project at Cambridge University.
• Shanama Project at Princeton University.
• Epic of the Persian Kings: the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. Web site of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Manuscripts: Other Locations

• Belgica Bibliotheque numerique de la Bibliotheque royale de Belgique Several manuscripts of different origins held here.
• Catalonian Manuscripts "These manuscripts are from the collection of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley." Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliografico. From the Ministry of Culture of Spain..."manuscritos y libros impresos antiguos..."
• Manuscritos medievales. Some Spanish medieval manuscripts.
• Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland

Medieval Painting

General Sites

• Early Medieval Painting
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Painting and Sculpture.
• Gothic Painting (1280-1515) With links to International Gothic, Northern Painting, and Late Gothic Painting.

English Medieval Painting

• Medieval Wall Painting in the English Parish Church "A developing catalogue" from Anne Marshall at the Open University.
• Medieval Painting At Holy Trinity Church, Coventry.
• The Blackfriars Retable
• St. George and the Dragon Later 15th century; at Broughton. Part of Anne Marshall's site.

French Medieval Painting

• Medieval Paintings in the South of France From the French Ministry of Culture.
• The 14th-century paintings of Vif, near Grenoble A March 2007 article on the recent discovery. See right.

Italian Medieval Painting

• San Matteo National Museum, Pisa With painting, sculpture, and decorative art from the 12th to the 15th centuries.
• Byzantine Art and Painting in Italy during the 1200s and the 1300s A tour of painting at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• Giotto: the Arena Chapel The most complete online source I've yet found. From the Web Gallery of Art.

Macedonian Medieval Painting

• Medieval Macedonia: 9th to 16th centuries Includes a site on frescoes and icons.
• Icons of Macedonia
• Art Painting in Ohrid in the period between XI and XIV century

Scandinavian Medieval Painting

• The Mills-Kronborg Collection of Danish Church Wall Paintings. Now hosted by the The Index of Christian Art at Princeton University.
• Norwegian MedievalPanel Painting The St. Olav frontal.

Medieval Stained Glass

Look also at the details of architecture, especially English cathedrals.

• Medieval Stained Glass. From Sacred Destinations.
• Stained Glass. Expandable digital images from San Jose State University.
• A History of Stained Glass. "Text Courtesy of the Art Glass Association."
• The Medieval Stained Glass Photographic Archive. "Over 16,000 photographs of medieval and ancient stained glass panels at over 500 locations." An extraordinary collection.
• Stained Glass in Medieval Europe. From the Met's Timeline of Art History.
• Stained Glass Follow the link on Pippin Michelli's site to find a collection of links on the history and techniques of stained glass through the centuries.
• The Rose Window On the structure and symbolism of the Rose Window, from the Catholic Encyclopedia, ca. 1908.
• The Rose Window Defined
• The North window from Notre Dame, Paris. 1258/1261. With many other details from Notre Dame.
• Medieval Stained Glass Science. From Nova.

Modern versions of Medieval stained glass

• The Lamb of God Rose Window from St. John's Episcopal Church, Stamford, CT. By Henry Edwards-Ficken, 1895.
• Thornewood Castle. Circa 1911, near Tacoma, Washington.
• Grace Cathedral, San Francisco The Virtual Tour includes views of stained glass and the famous replicas of Ghiberti's "Gates of Paradise." 2005 : this site has been updated and expanded.
• Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City Take the "Virtual Tour" to see several stained glass sites, including the Rose Window and the Sports Bay.
• Washington National Cathedral. No images yet, but the site is under construction so it's worth posting it here to check to see what they do.

Decorative Arts

• The Medieval Treasury Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Arguably the best collection of medieval decorative art anywhere.
• The Alfred Jewel Ninth century; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
• The Cloisters New York City. Also an excellent collection--even the building is medieval.
• Medieval Art Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Much of what they have would fall into the category of decorative arts--but also sculpture and painting.
• The Gothic Ivories Web site. From the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
• The Medieval Pottery Research Group Mostly about the Group and joining; but has some good links.
• Decorative Arts From the Germanisches National Museum, Nuremberg.
• Medieval Enamels. From LImoges to Silos On an exhibition in Brussels.
• Medieval Metalwork and Enamels Tour from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• A Hispano-Moresque Charger Lusterware ceramic, ca. 1500. From Southern Methodist University.
• A pair of eagle fibulae Sixth century, Visigothic, Spain. From the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. More works also on this site--follow the links.

Medieval Sculpture

General Sites

• Satan in the Groin "exhibitionist figures on medieval churches"
• Gothic sculpture from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries From the Web Gallery of Art.
• Mediaeval Sword Virtual Museum "overall and detailed photographs and descriptions of Viking swords and later medieval swords." Part of the Mediaeval Sword Resource Site.

Sculpture in the British Isles

• Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in the British Isles From the Courtauld Institute of Art.
• The Medieval Freestone Effigies in Bunbury Church by Claude Blair. No date given.
• Monumental Brass to Sir John and Lady Ellen de Wautone, 1347 Pictures of the rubbing by Russon Wooldridge.

Sculpture in France

• Romanesque and Gothic Sculpture and Architecture
• Medieval French Gothic Architecture & Sculpture From San Jose State University.
• Visigothic buckle 6th century. From the Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois.
• Abbey treasury, Conques. Including the reliquary of Sainte Foy, 983-1013. In French.
• The Chalice of Abbot Sugar National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Circa 1140.
• Eucharistic Dove Champleve enamel and glass, early 13th century. From the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

Sculpture in Italy

• Italian Romanesque Sculpture
• Gothic Valle d'Osta From the "Regions of Italy" Web site.
• Nicolo Pisano: the Pulpit in the Baptistery of Pisa 1259/1260. From Mary Ann Sullivan.
• Italian Romanesque and Early Gothic Sculpture From Thais. In Italian.
• Italian Gothic Sculpture From Thais. In Italian.
• Sculpture of the Duecento and Trecento Part of the Website, Art and Architecture of the Trecento.
• Ivory and glass paste crozier head with eagle of St. John 13th century. From the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
• Charity by Giovanni di Balduccio. Relief sculpture, circa 1330. From the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Sculpture in Germany

• The Throne of Charlemagne Palatine Chapel, Aachen. Circa 800.
• The Cross of Lothair Aachen Cathedral treasury, late 10th century.
• Ekkehard and Uta, from Nuremburg Cathedral Circa 1250/60. Near the bottom of this site in German on the Cathedral.

Sculpture in Spain

• Romanesque Spanish Sculpture Actually an advertisement for a book, but some nice photos.
• A pair of eagle fibulae Sixth century, Visigothic, Spain. From the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. More works also on this site--follow the links.