Links Database: Keyword facsimiles

• Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

  http://www.christusrex.org/www2/berry/

  Christus Rex's site on Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry provides facsimiles of the entire medieval manuscript as well as a page-by-page commentary. This site provides many wonderful and colourful images of medieval life:

  keywords: facsimiles, life, medieval

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Art

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Medieval & Renaissance Europe

  http://eurodocs.lib.byu.edu/

  EuroDocs hosts this site on primary historical documents from Medieval and Renaissance Europe. This site includes selected transcriptions, facsimiles and some translations by Richard Hacken:

  keywords: facsimiles, historical, medieval, translations

  found in: Renaissance Sites > History

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Renaissance Dante in Print

  http://www.italnet.nd.edu/Dante/index.html

  This site contains beautiful colour facsimiles, in jpeg format, of over 30 Renaissance editions of Dante's Divine Comedy (downloading speed is compromised somewhat for the quality of the images):

  keywords: divine comedy, dante, italy, facsimiles

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > European > Dante

  valid as of 2007-03-19

• SCETI: Furness Collection

  http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/

  The wonderful Furness Library , at the University of Pennsylvania, now provides vibrant facsimiles from various Shakespeare plays and other renaissance works of interest in Shakespeare studies, such as Holinshed's Chronicles. This site requires Flash plug-in:

  keywords: collection, facsimiles, folio, holinshed, library, manuscript, renaissance

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in Quarto

  http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html

  The British Library's "Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in Quarto" site provides photo facsimiles of the library's 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theaters were closed in 1642. The site also offers background information on Shakespeare, the plays, and the quartos. You can even compare quartos side-by-side:

  keywords: comparison, manuscript, quarto, text, facsimiles

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles

  valid as of 2006-02-20

• MATEO - editio theodoro-palatina online

  http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/start6.html

  The University of Mannheim, Germany, provides electronic facsimiles of Latin and German texts by Renaissance women. This site is in German:

  keywords: german, facsimiles, latin, women

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers

  valid as of 2005-09-14