Websites and databases

The collection of the MET Cloisters encompasses almost 10.000 objects from the Mediterranean and Europe from the fall of Rome in the fourth century to the beginning of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century. It also includes pre-medieval European works of art created during the Bronze Age and early Iron Age.

De digitale collectie database van Musée de Cluny bevat ca. 200 objecten uit hun collectie van de oudheid tot en met de late middeleeuwen.

Art UK is a database that connects everyone with the UK's public art collections. They unite one million artworks from 3,500 institutions like museums, libraries, town halls ect.

De Bayerische Staatsbibliothek beheert een enorm aantal gedigitaliseerde collecties waaronder handschriften, oude drukken, kaarten en bladmuziek.

In de database kan er ook gezocht worden binnen een aantal sub-collecties zoals: Manuscripts of Emperor Henry II, Manuscripts of the Benedictine Monastery St. Emmeram, Incunabula ect.

The database includes images and descriptive data related to the iconography of works of art produced between late Antiquity and the sixteenth century. Although the Index of Medieval Art was formerly known as the Index of Christian Art, it now includes secular subjects as well as a growing number of subjects from medieval Jewish and Muslim cultures.

De Morgan Library in New York bezit een belangrijke verzamelingen middeleeuwse en renaissancistische handschriften. De collectie omvat circa 1.300 manuscripten en bestrijkt ongeveer tien eeuwen boekverluchting, van de vroege middeleeuwen tot de zestiende eeuw. Tot de hoogtepunten behoren rijk verluchte getijdenboeken, bijbels en liturgische manuscripten, waaronder de Lindau Gospels, de Morgan Crusader Bible en de Hours of Catherine of Cleves.

Niet alles is gedigitaliseerd, maar er staan ongeveer 57.000 afbeeldingen online.

The Medieval collections tell the colourful story of early European art and culture from the decline of the Roman Empire to the dawn of the Renaissance (300 – about 1500). It contains sacred and secular art from around Europe.

The MeMO database contains inventories and descriptions of objects and texts that had a function in the commemoration of the dead in the area that is currently the Netherlands, until 1580. Examples are: Tomb monuments, floor slabs, Painted or sculpted memorial pieces, Memorial registers and Narrative sources that fulfilled functions in the commemoration of the dead. (Sinds mei 2019 wordt de database niet meer geüpdatet!)

Bibale is a collaborative database, managed at the Institute for Research and History of Texts (IRHT-CNRS). Bibale receives and manages data concerning the history of manuscripts and ancient texts, the provenance of medieval manuscripts and ancient books, ancient collections, texts and their authors, book artisans.

Dit project werd opgezet rond de 2017 tentoonstelling 'Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures' en samenwerking tussen de Metropolitan Museum of Art en het Rijksmuseum. De database bevat vele objecten palmhout snijwerk van de late middeleeuwen tot in de vroege renaissance.

This is an iconographic database for the BnF manuscripts. The collections of the National Library of France house several tens of thousands of manuscripts whose decor constitutes one of the richest painting museums in the world. Find the 200,000 illuminations, drawings, seals, binding decorations already described, with better structured information and new features.

The Biblissima portal brings together digital data on the history of the transmission of texts and their images from Antiquity to the Renaissance, in both East and West, in a wide variety of supports, languages and scripts.

The image database REALonline makes the visual cultural heritage of Austria and the Central European regions available via the Internet with all its details. It forms the basis for research into historical images using digital methods and at the same time makes their complex content accessible to anyone interested.

At the Dutch Research School for Medieval Studies, researchers specializing in the Middle Ages collaborate to advance research and education. It is a partnership between six Dutch universities. The research school offers training programs and education for Research Master's students, PhD candidates, and researchers.

TUdigit is a database of digitized manuscripts and images from the collection of the Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig (UBL). The database contains approximately 290 medieval manuscripts.

The HSP is a database portal with almost 200 European manuscripts in German collections. The database is a collaboration between four libraries: Staatsbibliothek Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SBB-PK), Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig (UBL), Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (HAB) and the Bayerischer Staatsbibliothek Munich (BSB).

The collection of Museum De Waag in Deventer consists of, among other things, paintings, drawings and prints, decorative and utilitarian objects, archaeological finds, and architectural objects. In addition, the collection contains a collection of coins and medals that bears witness to the Deventer coinage. A large part of the collection, including many medieval objects, can be viewed online.

In the Louvre's collection database, 500,000 works from various periods can be found from the collections of the Musée du Louvre and the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix.

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts, decorative arts and architecture (3rd-19th centuries), currently containing over 52,800 reproductions.

Archeologie Magazine is a journal that also publishes articles online. On the website, you can choose from time periods, including the Middle Ages, to read the latest archaeological news.

The Stardarchief Amsterdam manages the city's oldest archives. Through Transkribus, their medieval archives have been made searchable and readable through transcription and digitization.

The Amsterdam Medieval Archives Foundation (SMAA) aims to increase knowledge about medieval Amsterdam for the widest possible audience. They do this, for example, by making Amsterdam's oldest archives accessible. In collaboration with the Amsterdam City Archives, various medieval archives of Amsterdam can now be viewed online.

This Huygens-KNAW database contains manuscripts with marginalia approached from three perspectives:

The annotation of texts using non-textual symbols. The role of marginal annotations with regard to debate, intellectual freedom, and censorship. An analysis of annotation practices, centers of commentary production, and characteristic annotations by scholars.

This is the digital collections of Trinity College in Dublin. This database contains, among other things, the famous Book of Kells.

Informatie over de middeleeuwse handschriften in de collectie van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) is te vinden via de online catalogus.

The Byvanck database contains information on more than 4,000 illuminated medieval manuscripts produced in the Netherlands. The information from this database has been transferred and incorporated into the RKD database.

The virtual reading room for digitized medieval manuscripts in Dutch collections.

The website currently offers access to manuscripts from the collections of Museum Huis van het Boek, Tresoar, and the Atheneum Library in Deventer.

eCodices is a digitalization project in Switzerland.

The goal of eCodices is to provide free access to all medieval and a selection of modern manuscripts of Switzerland by means of a virtual library. At the moment, the virtual library contains 2938 manuscripts from 100 different collections. The virtual library will be continuously updated and extended.

The British Library holds a large number of medieval manuscripts and digitizes these and those from other collections in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, the database fell victim to a cyberattack in 2023. As a result, a large proportion of manuscripts are no longer available. The British Library is working hard to restore this. Currently, there are about 1,000 manuscripts available.

Gallica is the digital library of the BnF and its partners. It offers free and open access to several million digitized documents from all periods and all media.​

De database van Gallica bevat een enorme hoeveelheid gedigitaliseerde documenten. Hier zijn handschriften en manuscripten van de late oudheid tot aan het einde van de middeleeuwen te vinden.

The Old Dutch Dictionary (ONW) is a scholarly dictionary that describes the oldest Dutch from approximately 500 to 1200. The dictionary includes all sources that are (or could be, partly) Old Dutch in character. The ONW contains over 9,000 headwords and approximately 30,000 quotations. The quoted texts have been translated into modern Dutch.

The Institute for the Dutch Language manages the Corpus of Old Dutch. This is the collection of all known Dutch word material from the period 475–1200. It consists of three major texts (Wachtendonk Psalms, Leiden Willeram, Middle Fränkische Reimbibel) and a number of smaller texts, fragments, individual words, and place names. These texts form the basis for the Old Dutch Dictionary.

The Collectie Nederland database brings together heritage collections of the Netherlands in one place. More than 100 collections from museums and other collection-managing institutions are connected. In total, this yields nearly 6 million objects.

The RKD is developing a database of marks on works of art. Marks can provide information about the dating of a work of art, the place of manufacture, the maker, and trade. There are two datasets that form the basis for the database. Marks on Art: Sculpture consists of marks on medieval sculptures, and Marks on Art: Painting consists of maker's and guild marks on the backs of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings.

In the Rijksstudio, you will find high-quality images of 812,300 artworks from the Rijksmuseum collection. This also includes medieval artworks that are not always on display.

The Huis van Hilde is the archaeology museum of the province of Noord-Holland. Several million finds are stored in the depot, dating from the Stone Age to after the Second World War. A small part of our collection is on display in the museum. Other objects can be requested or viewed in the online collection/database. The database contains more than 3,000 objects from the Middle Ages.

The website of PAN (Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands) is a platform where all small archaeological finds from private metal detecting are registered.