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If you have other suggestions for Greek Paleography web links, or find that links have expired or gone bad, please email me at halsall@murray.fordham.edu.

Last Updated: December 6, 1996

[Note: This page is directed towards post-classical Greek Paleography. Since the vast majority of surviving Greek manuscripts date from the "Byzantine" period, the links should be of general interest to all interest in reading Greek manuscripts. I have not sought, however, to be comprehensive about web sites for Ancient, Hellenistic, or Biblical Greek studies.]

Note:

• For a general introduction to Greek manuscript sources see the Byzantine Manuscript Sources file.
• For a glossary of paleographical terms see the Paleographical Glossary file.
• For a bibliography of indices of Greek Manuscripts see the distinct Byzantine Manuscripts file.
• For an guide to secondary literature on Greek Manuscripts see the distinct Byzantine Paleography Bibliography file.

INDEX

The structure of this set of World Wide Web Links is as follows. You can browse through the entire list, or jump directly to the part that interests you by selecting the underlined links.

• General Paleography Sites
• Greek Paleography Sites
• Byzantine Paleography Sites
• Greek Language Sites
• Bible Resources
• Latin Paleography Sites
• Papyrology
• Manuscript Web Presentation Sites
• Institutes
• Text Collections (original language)
• Adjunct Sites
• Web Guides
  

General Paleography Sites

• Bodleian Library WWW Server The Bodleian library has about 35,000 slides of MSS in Britain. This site contains a very small collection of them.
• DScriptorium: medieval manuscripts [US]
• D[igital] Scriptorium
• Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web An well-conceived and executed site at Brown University which examines Greek paleography, textual transmission, etc., with special reference to the New Testament.
• Manuscript Study: Basic (at Brown's Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web)
• Glossary of Technical Terms in Paleography (at Brown's Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web)
• Illustrated Papyrus (at Brown's Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web)
• Illustrated Roll (at Brown's Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web)
• Illustrated Codex (at Brown's Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web)
• Illustrated Parchment (at Brown's Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web)
• Notes on Manuscript Transmission (at Brown's Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web)
• Books and Libraries Information from the University of Leuven in Belgium.
• Medieval Manuscripts Page in the UK.
• David P. Beneteau A page devoted to Italian paleography with a Paleography Working Area with worked examples.
• What is Paleography? An article from a Finnish site.
• Paleography and Codicology Page at the Labyrinth Web site [Georgetown University].
• Paleography and Codicology: Bibliography at the Labyrinth Web site [Georgetown University].
• Pre-1600 Manuscripts
• Vellum Gallery Links of interest to calligraphers.

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Greek Paleography Sites

• Archive of Watermarks and Papers in Greek Manuscripts This developing site consists of the guide (html texts) and 3 major components: an archive images & prints of watermarks (from Greek manuscripts), a database of paper descriptions, and a bibliographical database. It is both a research tool and a mode of publishing information on papers in a centrally accessible way, and much more. The database interface is not yet functional, but the rest is, and there's a lot to think about here relevant to the methodological issues about use of evidence from paper to identify scribes and centers of book production. Part of it (the bibliographical database) is mostly just a shell at the moment, but you can see how it will work once our database interface is done.
• Royal Holloway: Porphyrogenitus project (Greek paleography) A well-advanced project to develop a new lexicon of Greek ligatures and abbreviations - in other words a Greek Cappelli!

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Byzantine Paleography Sites

• Byzantine Paleography at the Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet (this site)
• Catalogi Codicum Montis Athonis
• Philtheou Project

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Greek Language Sites

• Perseus Project Home Page The Perseus Project is concerned with the classical world. But it is also of great use to Byzantinists. For instance it has the entire Liddell-Scott-Jones in a searchable form - and with the ability to display the results in Greek [if you use a fixed with Greek font downloadable from the Perseus site.
• Searchable Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek Lexicon at Perseus Project
• Morphological analysis of Greek forms at Perseus Project.
• Beta-codes for the ASCII transcription of Greek
• Matt Neuburg's Great Greek Programs for the Macintosh
• Hellenistic Greek Linguistics A specializeed site of obvious interest to Byzantinists. Hellenistic Greek is defined as the language between 300 BCE and 600 CE.

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Latin Paleography Sites

• Anne Rudloff Stanton's Codicology Course at the University of Missouri. A splendid site with sound advice on how to deal with libraries, what materials to use, and so forth.
• Reading Latin Documents
• Allen and Greenough's New Latin
• Study Guide to Wheelock's Latin Full text (it's quite large).
• Latin Word List all the difficult little words, with common medieval uses. (thanks to Lynn Nelson).
• (Medieval) Latin Grammar Aid at University of Kansas (again thanks to Lynn Nelson).
• Latin Manuscripts, Paleography, Codicology page at the Labyrinth web site.

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Papyrology Sites

• Papyrology Home Page at University of Michigan.
• Papyrology Collection -- U. of Michigan
• Papyrological resources by Gopher
• American Society of Papyrologists
• The Duke Papyrus Archive has now virtually completed the task, which began in September of 1992, of making the Duke papyri more accessible. Available are records and images of all 1373 inventory numbers of papyri in the Duke University Collection. (About 200 images remain to be added.) The approximately 2000 images of these texts are presented in three ways: a "thumbnail," a 72 dpi image and a 150 dpi version. All images are linked to catalogue records.
• Journal: ZPE: Index of the Journal of Papyrology
• Search the Beinecke papyrus collection
• The Papyrus Collection (P. Carlsberg) in Denmark.
• Coptic Civilization

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Manuscript Web Presentation Sites

• The Canterbury Tales Project This site is really only an advertisement for the Cambridge UP CD-ROM of the same name.
• The Charrette Project This page allows access to a prototype version of an image/text database of Chrétien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrette.
• Beowulf Project UK site and US mirror site
• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
• Book of Kells Images
• Dante Project*
• Dante: Divina Commedia
• Dante: Vita Nuova
• Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry -- A medieval book of hours (ca. 1412-1416; photo facsimiles from the calendar section)
• Lindisfarne Gospels
• Medieval Europe: Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae, secundum usum Romanus
• The Piers Plowman Project Contains full texts of various mss.
• Vatican Library Exhibit

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Institutes

• Cambridge University Library: The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit The Genizah was the document house of a Cairo Jewish community. Its resources pertain to a massive array of aspects of Eastern Mediterranean life in the Middle Ages.
• Centro di Studi Papirologici
• Commission of paleography and codicology of medieval manuscripts in Austria Home Page
• Institut für Papyrologie WWW Server
• The Institute of Library Science - University of Parma
• Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Homepage
• New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
• VATICAN FILM LIBRARY at St. Louis University.

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Text Collections (original language)

• Anthology Of Medieval German Literature
• Electronic Text Library at University of Virginia.
• Latina Folia Christi
• Libellus collection of Latin texts.
• Roman Law on the WWW Contains texts and commentaries on the Corpus Iuris Civilis. Available in English, German, Italian and Latin.
• Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Information about the CDROM of Greek texts. Not, unfortunately, the database itself. (The whole TLG is available online at certain institutions - for instance the University of Virginia, but is not accessible outside those institutions. Searching is MUCH faster than with CDROM versions.]

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Bible Resources

• Resource Page-Biblical Studies
• Bible Gateway, Calvin College
• ARTFL Project: Latin Vulgate Bible Search Form
• Noncanonical Homepage
• Virtual Library
• The Gospel Of Thomas Homepage
• Library of Ethiopian Texts - Introduction
• Dead Sea Scrolls - Today

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Adjunct Sites

• 100 Years of Syriac Studies at CUA
• Christian Hagiography A site run by the Bollandists.
• INDEX TRANSLATIONUM Database
• Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae A site in Copenhagen devoted to Byzantine Music MSS.
• Mount Athos Website Not a technical site, but a pleasant guide to one major source of Byzantine MSS.
• Otfried Lieberknecht's Homepage A really useful collection of Internet Dictionaries, and other technical resources for historians.
• Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts
• Maps of Carolingian scriptoria

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Web Guides

• Labyrinth Home Page The Labyrinth is a growing site for general medieval studies.
• Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology
• ABZU: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East

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The author and maintainer of this site is Paul Halsall. He can be contacted by email at halsall@murray.fordham.edu

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