34,000 new digital images of medieval items go online

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Seven institutions have come together to create a database of 34,000 new images of medieval manuscripts, books and coins. This includes over 600 manuscripts that are now online.

The project ‘The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ was completed earlier this year. Led by the National and University Library of Slovenia, it includes the Brugge Public Library, the Hunt Museum, the Berlin State Library, Leiden University Libraries, Bibliotheque National de France and the National Library of the Czech Republic.


They all collaborated together to add 34,000 new digitized items to the Europeana web portal, and improve the image quality of another 30,000 items. Available in English, Dutch, French, German, Czech and Slovenian, the partners were able to create blog posts, educational materials, and videos.

34,000 new digital images of medieval items go online - Medievalists.net

Seven institutions have come together to create a database of 34,000 new images of medieval manuscripts, books and coins. This includes over 600 manuscripts that are now online.

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This is really, really cool.

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I mean, Europeana was already massive, and then they added this.

Check out this painting of King Jan III Sobieski, who led the largest cavalry charge in the history of man, and his family, from the Central Museum of Warsaw. This is the kind of thing you get there.