Illustration Index
A Guide to Online Resources
ORB hopes to make available to users a growing collection of downloadable
graphic images. In some cases, these are images that can be used
to illustrate lectures and amplify home pages. Some may be restricted
to classroom use. Still others are available only for browsing on
the net. As you peruse this page, please be sensitive to any restrictions
placed upon individual collections. As always, ORB welcomes submissions
of graphic materials that can enhance the learning experience of
our students. If you have contributions, please contact the ORB
Editor.
Preliminary Outline for this Section:
- Catalonian Manuscripts
This recently added page from the Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite
highlights some manuscripts from the collection of The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley. At the site, users
can access over 260 digitized pages of eleventh- through fifteenth-century
manuscripts from Catalonia. These are presented in four sections:
a fifteenth-century Catalan translation of Boethius's De consolatione
philosophiae, Saint Peter Pascual's Llibre del bisbe de Jaen (Biblia
parva), and two collections of various legal records and documents,
the first dating from 1031 to 1499 and the second from 1140 to
1555. All of the documents are easy to navigate, and page images
are available in standard and high resolution, and as thumbnails.
An abstract is provided for the first collection of legal documents,
and links are offered to bibliographic information on all of the
items featured at this page.
- Early Manuscripts at Oxford
University. Based at Oxford University and part of the Specialised
Research Collections in the Humanities initiative supported by
the Higher Education Funding bodies of England, Scotland, Wales,
and Northern Ireland, this project is making scanned images of
ancient, medieval, and Celtic manuscripts available for free personal
use by researchers. At present, the site offers nearly 30 manuscripts,
some of them rather substantial. After browsing by collection
and library and accepting the stated conditions, users may view
the manuscripts by folio. Most are presented as thumbnailed images
in framed pages with information on the document and viewing tips
provided. Users should note that the JPEG images of each page
can be very large, as much as 140MB, and faster connections and
more powerful computers are strongly recommended. The site recommends
configuring an appropriate viewer, such as ACDSee, as a helper
application rather than viewing the JPEG images in one's browser.
Highlights of the ! collection include an unfinished Canterbury
Tales with the scribe's instructions, a fourteenth-century treatise
on Welsh medicine, the early sixteenth-century Annals of Ulster,
and a sixteenth-century text on military science and siegecraft
with colored diagrams.
- Maecenas:
Images of Ancient Greece and Rome. Maintained by Classics
Professor Leo Curran of the University at Buffalo, this collection
of images could be a useful resource for courses in the Classics,
Ancient History, or Archaeology. The collection currently contains
many high-quality photos from France and Italy, with separate
sections for Sicily and Rome. The imagesare offered free for any
non-commercial purpose, and the site is periodically updated with
new photos.
- Roman Coin Collection
- Periodical
historical atlas AD 1-1600 in English or French
- Icons with Medieval Themes
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- A Lighter View of the Middle Ages
- Other Online Resources
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