Digital Collections
Manuscripts
Munich, Bavarian State Library: Digital Copies of Grecian Manuscripts
The offer of works available in digitised form is expanded continuously. The digital copies produced from the originals are full colour copies, those produced from microfilms are available in a bitonal or grey-scale quality.
Oriental Manuscripts (Cod.armen., Cod.bal., Cod.curd., Cod.mand., Cod.Paschto., Cod.pers., Cod.syr., Cod.turc., Cod.Zend.)
Heidelberg, University Library: Codices Palatini graeci
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
The UCLA Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts was designed to enable users to find fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the web; you can browse the catalogue by location, shelfmark, author, title, and language.
The Codex Sinaiticus Project is an international collaboration to reunite the entire (4th century) manuscript in digital form and make it accessible to a global audience for the first time.
e-codices: Greek Sources in Swiss Libraries
Hellenic Institute in Venice: Codex Nr. 5
Digital copy of the Codex Number 5 of the Hellenic Institute in Venice: an illustrated manuscript of the Alexander romance, dating to the 14th century.
London, British Library (BL): digitised Manuskripts
Catalogue of illuminated Manuscripts
By selecting “Greek” as a language you can search for Greek manuscripts.
It was the founder of the library, Ambrosiana, Cardinal Federico Borromeo, who at the beginning of the 17th century started the collection of Latin as well as Greek and Oriental manuscripts; today the library holds around 35.000 manuscripts and more than 2.100 incunabula.
Paris, National Library of France (BnF): Gallica: Digital Library
The National Library of France digitises literature relevant to Byzantine Studies, the holdings currently include 415 titles that can be searched by “title”, “author”, “subject” or “any field”; if required, the documents can also be printed on demand.
Paris, Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (irht): Pinakes - Textes et manuscrits grecs
Corpus Christi College and the Stanford University Libraries: digitized Greek manuscripts in the historic Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; to browse by language is available to subscribed users only.
Collections of digitized manuscripts.
Projects
New York, Columbia University: Istanbul Dokumentation Project
The project offers information on 30 Byzantine and Ottoman monuments in Istanbul through QuickTime Virtual Reality sequences, a collection of photos and other introductory academic material, all of them integrated into an interactive map of the city.
Prosopography of the Byzantine World
The Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire of King’s College aims to record all surviving information about every individual mentioned in Byzantine textual sources, together with as many as possible of the individuals recorded in seal sources, in the period 642-1261.
Texts
The Documenta Catholica Omnia contains amongst others digital copies of volumes of the following works: Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae (CSHB), Migne: Recueil des Historiens des Croisades and Miklosich / Müller: Acta Patriarchatus.
Krumbacher, Karl: Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur
Please use Firefox as a browser when opening digital copies in the ‘Open Library’.
Paris, National Library of France (BnF): Gallica: Digital Library
The National Library of France digitises literature relevant to Byzantine Studies, the holdings currently include more than 800 titles that can be searched by “title”, “author”, “subject” or “any field”; if required, the documents can also be printed on demand.
Journals
Byzantinische Zeitschrift (BZ), First volume (1892)
and more volumes (open access). Please use Firefox as a browser when opening digital copies in the ‘Open Library’.
Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature
Open access to volumes of the years 1943-1975
More Digital Collections can be found in in KIRKE.
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