A Frost bouquet
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/frost/
The website 'A Frost Bouquet' hosts images of materials from a 1996 special exhibition of editions and memorabilia of the poet, Robert Frost. The online exhibit is divided into six sections: Robert Frost editions in English; editions in other languages; the Frost family; the 'Bouquet'; Christmas cards; and Barrett and the biographers. The first two sections include manuscript images as well as photographs of published material. The family section contains photographs of Frost, his family and friends, from various stages of his life. The Bouquet itself was a manuscript magazine consisting of poems, stories, and illustrations, created by Frost's children and family friends. Images of each page of the first edition (June 1914) are available on the website. The biographical section contain various materials: the draft of Clifton Waller Barrett's introductory speech for Frost's 1952 appearance at the University of Virginia; manuscripts of biographical accounts of the poet; and photographs of Frost's biographers at work.
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Adam Matthew Publications
http://www.ampltd.co.uk/
Adam Matthew Publications is a British publisher of "original manuscript collections, rare printed books and other primary source material for the humanities". Publication has until recently been in microfilm form, but much of the material is now also available to scholars online. The service is a commercial one that generally requires purchase and registration. There is, however, some full-text material available for free and without registration at this website (click Guides / Online / then see the free full-text 'Publisher's Note' and 'Introduction' for each collection). There is a full A-Z index to around 500 large scholarly collections of primary source material on microfilm, and a link to the Adam Matthew Digital website for online access. A variety of free printed brochures are offered on certain topics, and these can be requested for postal delivery. Further short brochures (see 'Recent Publications') are available free online as PDF files. The collections seem especially strong in literary manuscripts, travel records, and documents of political importance.
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Ancrene Wisse preface : a prototype edition for the Early English Texts Society
http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Projects/EETS/
'Ancrene Wisse Preface: a prototype edition for the Early English Text Society' provides a corrected and fully-annotated working edition of this Middle English text, a 'guide' or 'rule' for female recluses composed in the early thirteenth century in the West Midlands. The project is part of the Early English Text Society (EETS) Council's aim to publish EETS editions of Old and Middle English works in electronic form, based on good manuscripts, for general use. This electronic edition is based on an edition of the full text prepared by Dr Bella Millett and published in 2005 by the EETS. The online text is extremely well presented, and is structured so that at any point in the original Middle English it is possible to access: the modern English text; the original plus the translation; or the textual commentary. There is also an excellent introduction providing: contextual and textual history; colour reproductions and transcriptions of relevant sections of MSS housed at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and in the British Library; a glossary; and a booklist of primary and secondary sources. This site would be of interest to those studying Middle English Manuscripts, or Church history.
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Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in microfiche facsimile
http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~ASMMF/index.htm
The "Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile" (ASMMF) website provides information on this initiative, which aims to make available in an economical format the entire manuscript corpus of the Old English language. There are over 500 manuscripts in the entire series. The microfiche volumes are being published at 2-3 months intervals by the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University, and are available by subscription or by individual volume. The website lists all the published and forthcoming volumes, the manuscripts included in the project, the libraries participating in the project, and some links to Anglo-Saxon related sites. The project also publishes its guidelines for preparing manuscript descriptions on this website. This site would be of interest to academic libraries, and to those studying or teaching Anglo-Saxon literature or history.
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Antwerp James Joyce Center
http://www.antwerpjamesjoycecenter.com
The website of the Antwerp James Joyce Center provides information on this research centre, based at the University of Antwerp. The centre researches all aspects of Joyce's work, with an emphasis on genetic criticism, and works to promote interest in Joyce's work in Dutch-speaking countries. The website gives an overview of the work of the centre and provides full text access to a number of papers authored by members of the centre. Full issues of the centre's electronic journal 'Genetic Joyce Studies' are also available online, from the first issue in 2001 onwards. There are also links to other Joyce-related websites, and a list of relevant publications by centre members. This site would interest those researching Joyce, as well as university students studying his work.
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Auchinleck Manuscript
http://www.nls.uk/auchinleck/
The Auchinleck Manuscript website features an online edition of the manuscript held by the National Library of Scotland. Produced in London during the 1330s, the manuscript contains verses and poems spanning a wide range of genres including: romance; hagiography; doctrinal instruction; a chronicle; satire; complaint; and humorous tales. According to popular myth, Chaucer himself may have read the manuscript, and his 'Tale of Sir Thopas' may have been influenced by the Auchinleck's stanzaic 'Guy of Warwick'. But it is for romances in particular that the manuscript is renowned. There are eighteen romances, including: 'Reinbroun'; 'Of Arthour & of Merlin'; 'Roland and Vernagu'; 'Sir Tristrem'; 'Kyng Alisaunder'; 'Sir Orfeo'; 'The King of Tars'; 'Amis and Amiloun'; and 'Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild'. All of the poems are in English. As well as containing the transcribed texts (and page images) of the manuscript, the website includes a history of manuscript and a page about its physical make up. There is also a glossary and a lexicon, as well as bibliographies for each text and topic, and links to other relevant websites. This is an excellent example of a manuscript Internet resource, which should be of great value to scholars engaged in manuscript studies or researching Middle English literature. It is also possible to download the manuscript from the Oxford Text Archive site.
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Auchinleck ms : advocates' MS 19.2.1 (National Library of Scotland)
http://faculty.washington.edu/miceal/auchinleck/
The Auchinleck MS website presents both a basic and a detailed description of the Auchinleck manuscript (national library of Scotland, advocates' MS 19.2.1) and the forty-four Middle English text items included in it. For each item the site provides information on: the text's physical state in the manuscript; the stanza-form; other manuscript attestations; and modern editions. In addition, each item is linked to information on: the scribes; relevant sections in the site's selective bibliography; and to electronic editions of the individiual texts (some of which are diplomatic transcriptions by the site's creator, others are based on the TEAMS Middle English Texts website). This site is easy to navigate, being hyperlinked within its several different sections. It has consistent referencing to the scholarly sources used. While the information provided is very thorough, it remains limited, with little or no discussion of the manuscript's overall physical appearance or of the dating; distribution; and dialect of either the manuscript or the individual texts. This site would be a useful introduction to the manuscript and the texts themselves for students and researchers in manuscript studies or medieval English literature.
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Balliol College, MS 354
http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=balliol&manuscript=ms354
These web pages are a facsimile of Oxford, Balliol College, MS 354. This is the commonplace book of Richard Hill of London (born circa 1490). From the description of R. Mynor's 'Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Balliol College Oxford' (Oxford: 1963, 352-354), the following can be noted. The manuscript is paper and can be dated palaeographically to the first third of the sixteenth century. The paper contains a watermark of a hand and cinquefoil. The volume is taller than it is wide, 'the upright shape of a tradesman's account-book' (Mynors 1963, 352) and measures just over 11x4 inches. The book contains poems in English and Latin (including excerpts from Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'), and treatise on keeping horses, family memoranda, and annals concerning London mostly taken from Richard Arnold's 'Chronicle of London' (printed 1502). The manuscript arrived at Balliol some time between 1731 and 1852. Many portions of the manuscript have been edited for publication.
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BCMSV : the Leeds database of manuscript english verse
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.htm
The Leeds Verse Database (BCMSV) holds detailed information about English poetry contained within the seventeenth and eighteenth century manuscripts held in the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds. Many of the manuscripts are miscellanies and commonplace books which have not been previously indexed. In total the BCMSV database details some 6,600 poems from 160 manuscripts, with 320 images available from selected images in the collection. The database can be searched by keyword, first or last lines, author, title, date, manuscript and bibliographic references. A typical record will also include information about the length of the poem, its verse form, brief summary of content, and further information about the manuscript in which the poem is found. A separate list of manuscripts is also available.
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Beowulf Translations
http://www.beowulftranslations.net/
The Beowulf Translations web site brings together various people's work on the poem, and is edited by Syd Allan, who refers to himself as a 'Beowulf hobbyist' whose labours 'are not meant for scholars'. But Allan's nicely illustrated website provides detailed information on a very impressive range of 'Beowulf'-related subject matters and is very useful to several aspects of the study of this Old English text. The site's main feature is a compilation of bibliographic and photographic information on Modern English translations, as well as: film; theatre; and comic-strip adaptations of the text. These can be accessed from the main page, either chronologically under date of publication (between 1805 and 2002) or alphabetically under author. In addition, the site offers a great number of other features, including: scans (of: nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century editions and translations; parts of the manuscript; and further illustrative material); audio-files; selections of text; and bibliographies. Mr Allan also provides elementary information (of limited but consistent scholarly value) on text-interpretation (discussion of: the contents; the genre; the manuscript; and the language), and the historical background. Finally, a major strength of this site is that it is extremely well hyper-linked, providing access to other websites and discussion groups on 'Beowulf'.
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British Library : online gallery turning the pages 2.0
http://www.bl.uk/ttp2/ttp1.html
'British Library: Online Gallery Turning the Pages 2.0' is an innovative website/software hybrid that has been created by the British Library and its partners. For users who have fast broadband and Windows Vista, the website offers sixteen online facsimiles of rare books in the British Library collection. The books look and act like the original books in the original bindings and have pages which turn realistically; users can zoom in on fine details or to magnify details using a high-quality 'virtual loupe.' Book titles include: da Vinci's 'Codex Arundel' and 'Codex Leicester'; Charles Dodgson's original bound manuscript of 'Alice's Adventures under Ground'; William Blake's 'Notebook'; the 'Lindisfarne Gospels'; and the 'Sherbourne Missal', among others. Users can also hear the books being read by professional actors. The website is free, and requires registration only for the function that allows individuals to make and keep personal notes about the books. The books can be searched by keyword. The website will also function with Windows XP, but XP users will first need to download and install the free Microsoft .Net Framework v3.0. XP users may also need to specifically give the .Net framework Internet access through a firewall. The website is a good example of the forthcoming range of sophisticated 'browser-delivered software applications.'
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Cambridge English renaissance electronic service
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/
The Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service (CERES) is a project at the University of Cambridge which aims to explore the possibilities of electronic media for literary research. The home page provides links to a number of virtual workshops. These include the Aeneas and Isabella Project, a collaborative project which allows scholars to contribute to a database of comments on selected texts; Sidneiana, a multimedia archive of material relating to Sir Philip Sidney and his circle; and Haphazard, an online manuscript resource for students and scholars working on Edmund Spenser. CERES also publishes an online newsletter called Harvest which reviews and recommends sites for scholars working on the Renaissance period. The site is very attractively designed and illustrated, as well as easily navigable. Links to other resources have been carefully selected on the basis of academic and scholarly merit.
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Camelot project at the University of Rochester
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm
The Camelot project is an online database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies and other information. The project was designed and developed by Alan Lupack, Curator of the Robbins Library at the University of Rochester. The literature forms the most significant content on the site, which aims at something near a comprehensive collection of texts from the earliest references to Arthur in or around the 9th century AD, through the evolution of the legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table in the later Medieval period, up to the twentieth century. Given the nature of the subject, the site is particularly rich in texts and pre-Raphaelite images. The database includes works by authors such as: Oscar Adams; Max Adeler; Robert Buchanan; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Geoffrey of Monmouth; William Morris; Charles Swinburne; Jonathan Swift; Lord Alfred Tennyson; and William Butler Yeats, as well as anonymous works, for example the Alliterative Morte Arthure, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Artists featured on the site include: William Morris; Aubrey Beardsley; and Arthur Rackham. From the homepage, the database can be browsed by: Arthurian characters and motifs; author; or artist, as well as by keyword. The main page also links to related scholarly projects and resources. This site would be of interest to anyone studying Arthurian legend, whether from an artistic, historical or literary point of view.
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Canadian writers
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/writers/
The Canadian Writers website, maintained by Library and Archives Canada, provides researchers with access to important archival and bibliographical material of significant Canadian writers. It contains a range of material relating to celebrated Canadian writers, including online copies of original manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, journals and notebooks. At the time of review, the website concentrated upon eight writers: Marie-Claire Blaise; Roger Lemelin; Carol Shields; Michel Tremblay; Jacque Brault; Saint Denys Garneau; Elizabeth Smart; and Jane Urquhart. Bibliographies are provided for each writer, cataloguing the works they have published as well as critical work about them and links to other useful resources. The site also includes an essay about the cultural context of each writer, written by an academic from the University of Ottawa. This, along with the manuscript galleries, makes the site a useful resource for students of Canadian literature. It is in either French or English.
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Canterbury tales
http://www.canterburytales.org/
The Canterbury Tales website provides an online edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's work of that title, both in the original Middle English and in a Modern English translation. The edition and the translation, both illustrated with portraits from the Ellesmere Manuscript and the Kelmscott reprinting, can be accessed as separate texts, or in several combinations (including 'en face' and interpolated). With its: search option for the complete texts; easy navigation; 'chronology of the life and times of Chaucer'; and 'Canterbury Tales' discussion forum, this site is an extremely effective and very user-friendly tool for students and researchers. Unfortunately, the site is somewhat vague about its sources for the edition and the translation (referring to 'the Wiretap file, with numerous corrections' and the 'Litrix reading room'), so that its academic level remains unclear.
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Catalogue of the letters and papers of modern European writers, Taylor Institution Library, University of Oxford
http://www.taylib.ox.ac.uk/msgb.htm
This website enables access to the catalogue of the Letters and Papers of Modern European Writers and Others at the Taylor Institution Library at Oxford University. The archive of letters came to the library in the second half of the twentieth century and covers authors dating from the eighteenth century onwards. The catalogue is divided into languages ranging from English to Celtic and Czech. Authors are then arranged in alphabetical order with full bibliographical information and catalogue references. Writers in the collection include: Julian Huxley; William Macray; J. S. G. Simmons; and Bache Matthews. Italian figures include Garibaldi; Marinetti; and Ungaretti. German writers include Goethe; Grimm; and Rilke. The site is text only and extremely fast loading. It is an important collection, particularly with regard to German and French studies.
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Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies (CMPS), University of London
http://ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/index.htm
This is the homepage of the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies (CMPS), which was founded in 2001 at the Institute of English Studies, University of London on behalf of the British Library; the St Bride Printing Library; the University of London Research Library Services; the English Department at the University of Birmingham; the School of English at the University of Reading; and the Literature Department at the Open University. The Centre covers a diverse range of fields such as: palaeography; codicology; diplomatic writing and calligraphy; the history of printing; manuscript and print relations; the history of publishing and of the book trade; ephemera studies; the history of reading; the history of libraries; collecting and scholarship; analytical, descriptive and historical bibliography; textual criticism and textual theory; and the electronic book. The CMPS serves as a resource for the international community of scholars (including undergraduate and postgraduate students); the site provides news of events such as conferences, seminars, exhibitions, and summer schools such as the Centre's annual Palaeography Summer School and London Rare Book School. Information and progress reports are provided about CMPS research projects, most of which receive funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Several of the more developed projects have their own sites, including: the Complete Works of John Ford; the Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700 (CELM); and the Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts (DigCIM); Philo-Bibliographical Notes and Queries; Early Paper; John Masefield Virtual Research Environment; the William Sharp "Fiona Macleod" Archive; and the Yeats Annual Series. The Centre additionally hosts the AHRC National Research Training Scheme (NRTS) in English Language and Literature, Palaeography and the History of the Book. Links to related sites and partner institutions are included. The Web pages are uncomplicated and easy to follow.
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De casu ciȝaris dutis regis iabin : an episode from John Lydgate's fall of princes
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/lydgate/
De casu ciȝaris dutis regis iabin : an Episode from John Lydgate's Fall of Princes is an online version of this 15th-century manuscript in both image and transcribed text form. The authors have used Unicode to transcribe a fragment of text from John Lydgate's 'Fall of Princes'. The user will need a modern XML browser to view the text correctly. Mac users may experience problems. A digital representation of the original manuscript is displayed side by side with the modern transcribed text. In addition to the text, the site offers a report on the process of the transcription. The pilot project was undertaken at the Humanities Computing and Media Centre of the University of Victoria.
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Digital medievalist
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/
Digital Medievalist is the website of an online community of practice for medievalists working with digital media, particularly the digital representation of historical source material. The project runs: an email discussion list to enable the sharing of experience and knowledge amongst scholars working with medieval sources in a digital environment; a refereed online journal; and a news server for calls for papers and announcements. The Project also arranges conference sessions at relevant congresses. Full texts of journal issues are available on the website, as are guidelines for contributors. The Executive Board of the project has an international membership, reflecting the scope of this area of research. The site would be of interest to researchers already in the field, and anyone considering starting a digital project using medieval sources.
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Digitisation of Middle English manuscripts : the Hunterian collection
http://www.memss.arts.gla.ac.uk/
The Romaunt of the Rose website is the pilot study for a project that aims to digitise other Middle English manuscripts from the Hunterian Collection at Glasgow University Library. The site contains images of each page of the manuscript of the Romaunt of the Rose (MS Glasgow, Hunter 409) and a description of the proposed larger project. Users can compare the manuscript with images of the 1532 printed edition of the poem, thought to have been based on the Hunterian manuscript. The project hopes that the eventual digitisation of this important collection will not only make this important resource available to students and scholars, but will also help to preserve the fragile originals.
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Dreiser websource
http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/dreiser/
The American novelist Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) is best known for 'Sister Carrie' (1900) and 'An American tragedy' (1925). This significant resource is based on the Dreiser Papers in the Library of the University of Pennsylvania. There is a detailed index (sortable accoring to various headings) of his correspondence, which links to printable digital images (from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image), and a section on 'Sister Carrie' which contains facsimiles of the typescript and the 1900 edition, together with a searchable version of the 1981 (Pennsylvania) edition. This area also links to relevant correspondence, critical essays and a virtual exhibition. The remainder of the site contains links to a series of reference and bibliographical sources, critical and biographical essays, and images from Pennslyvania's extensive collections of still and moving images of Dreiser and his family. These include photographs taken by Dreiser in the Soviet Union and silent-film clips.
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Electronic sermo lupi ad Anglos
http://english3.fsu.edu/~wulfstan/
The electronic 'Sermo Lupi ad Anglos' is an online hypertext version of Wulfstan II's Old-English sermon (Sermon of the Wolf to the English). The manuscript from which the main critical text is taken is the BL MS Cotton Nero A.1. fol 110r, although the website also contains the texts from the Bodleian's Hatton MS 113, the Bodley MS 343, the CCCC MS 113, and the CCCC MS 419. The Old-English text can be viewed simultaneously with a glossary, with notes, or with a translation into modern English. The site also includes: a photograph of the Cotton Nero manuscript; a bibliography; grammatical notes; and some analogous texts, which include: sections from the Bible; and the 'Sermo ad Milites' (Sermon to the Knights). This website provides an enormous amount of useful material in a layout that allows easy comparisons between texts. It should prove invaluable to scholars working on the Sermon of the Wolf, and may also prove popular with undergraduates wishing to verify their translations of the original.
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Enchanting ruin: Tintern Abbey and Romantic tourism in Wales
http://www.lib.umich.edu/enchanting-ruin-tintern-abbey-romantic-tourism-wal
The website 'Enchanting Ruin: Tintern Abbey and Romantic Tourism in Wales' provides digitised versions of exhibits from the University of Michigan Special Collections Library. These exhibits relate to the ruins if the 12th-century Cistercian abbey, which were commemorated in the well-known poem by William Wordsworth 'Lines, Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July, 13, 1798'. The website presents a selection of images and manuscripts related to the history and geography of Abbey and surrounding areas, as well as some imaginary impressions of this Romantic site in poetry and other writing. The significance of all displayed artefacts is discussed in respective critical commentaries. The material on the website is organised thematically and consists of nine sections, including: 'The Picture of the Mind': Tintern and Vicinity through Images; 'Wreaths of Smoke': Industrial Tintern; 'The Language of Sense': Poetical Tintern; and a famous guide to 'Gleams of Past Existence': Charles Heath's Guide to Tintern Abbey. The resource is hosted by the Library and maintained by the Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan. These pages will be of use to Romantic scholars and anyone whose interests lie in the history and wider context of this iconic abbey.
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English handwriting 1500-1700 : an online course
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/
"English handwriting 1500-1700" is part of the Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service (CERES). The website provides an online course for late medieval, renaissance and early modern palaeography (paleography) on the basis of an extensive archive of manuscript images, drawn from several Cambridge colleges. In fifteen course lessons, it offers samples of different hands and manuscripts, and invites the visitor to supply transcriptions in the workspace provided. A wide range of pedagogical materials is provided, such as exemplary transcriptions of each course manuscript, alphabets of letter forms, an historical introduction, and codicological as well as palaeographical analyses. Each lesson concludes with a short test, and follow-up sections are available.This site is aimed mainly at beginners, but is also convenient for continuing reference, and includes a concise bibliography and list of links. It has a very user-friendly navigation, and provides downloadable PDF versions of the transcriptions.
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eOneill.com: an electronic Eugene O'Neill archive
http://www.eoneill.com/
eOneill.com: an Electronic Eugene O'Neill Archive offers links to a comprehensive range of Internet resources relating to the American playwright (1888-1953).There are links to the complete texts online, manuscripts, letters, photographs and production artefacts. The site provides links to most major collections of O'Neill's papers, including archives at Princeton University, Yale University and the University of Virginia.There is also biographical information and audio versions of a selected number of O'Neill's plays. Users can also follow links to the Eugene O'Neill Foundation at Tao House, where a virtual tour is available.The site is attractively and clearly designed. It is managed by a panel of O'Neill scholars in the United States and offers one of the most authoritative and complete archives of O'Neill resources on the web.
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