LibGuides: Medieval Manuscripts: Digital Images

Search Denison's manuscripts

The Denison University Archives & Special Collections has created an online display of 72 medieval manuscript leaves images. Use the search box below to find specific manuscripts using keywords like "book of hours" or "antiphonal." To browse all of the images, click here.

Online Collections from Around the World

British Library Digitised Manuscripts
The Digitised Manuscripts site contains many different kinds of manuscripts, archives and documents.
Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
The Houghton Library's collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts represents a significant resource for the study of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Western Europe.
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
This site provides access to over 80 early manuscripts now in institutions associated with the University of Oxford.
University of Leeds Medieval Manuscripts
Explore digitized images of illuminated medieval manuscripts. Find out more about the origins of the manuscripts, and how they came to the University of Leeds Library.
Medieval Manuscripts-Denison University Archives and Special Collections
The Denison University Archives and Special Collections is home to a collection of 72 medieval manuscript leaves. These leaves date from the 1200s to the early 1600s. The collection includes a nearly complete set of Otto Ege's Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts as well as other examples.
Otto F. Ege Collection-Denison University
In late 1940s, Cleveland resident and art historian Otto F. Ege selected fifty medieval manuscripts from his personal collection and removed several dozen individual pages from each one. He mounted each leaf onto a large paper mat using tape hinges, and added a descriptive label to the mat.
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He then put one leaf from each of the fifty component manuscripts into a durable portfolio box; each of the resulting boxed sets thus contained a different leaf from each of the fifty original manuscripts. Forty boxes containing fifty leaves each were made in this way, and were offered for sale to university and public libraries around North America.
Digital Scriptorium
An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions.