Images are from the Chester Beatty Collection. Images are from the Chester Beatty Collection.įourth century manuscript on papyrus 4 leaves, single column, up to 34 lines per column Contents: LXX (Septuagint): Psalms 72.6–88.2 (sans Ps76).
Images are from the Chester Beatty Collection.Įarly third century manuscript on papyrus 9 leaves, 2 columns, fragmentary, up to 32 lines Contents: LXX (Septuagint) Ezekiel and Esther. Late second century or early third century manuscript on papyrus 2 leaves, single column, fragmentary, up to 15 lines per column Contents: LXX (Septuagint) Jeremiah 4.30–5.1 5.9–13 5.13–14 5.23–24.
Images are from the Chester Beatty Collection.įourth century manuscript on papyrus 2 leaves, single column, 33 lines per column Contents: LXX (Septuagint) Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 36.28–37.11 37.1–122. Late third century manuscript on papyrus 31 leaves, single column, up to 20 lines per column Contents: LXX (Septuagint) Genesis 8–46. About the projectīritish Literary Manuscripts Online is a subscription-only educational resource created by Gale Cengage Learning.Early fourth century manuscript on papyrus 51 leaves, 2 columns, fragmentary, up to 38 lines per column Contents: LXX (Septuagint) Genesis 9–44. The resource includes the searchable special characters thorn (þ, Þ), eth (ð) and yogh (ȝ). The manuscripts in British Literary Manuscripts Online, Medieval and Renaissance were selected from a number of important institutions, including The British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Forster and Dyce Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Technical Methodsīritish Literary Manuscripts Online has been created from microfilm collections of manuscripts, by digitizing the images and related catalog information and descriptions contained in those collections. Images of the complete manuscript can be viewed, manipulated and navigated on screen. Options for limiting searches include year, century, document type and library. Advanced Search options include author, document type, work title, and manuscript number or library shelf mark.
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The full text of manuscript images is not searchable. The collection presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. This resource is of particuar relevance to scholars of medieval literature, authors and manuscripts, in many genres. It opens up endless possibilities for users studying authors' social networks, their personal beliefs and attitudes, their education and the development of their writings. This collection allows for the study of manuscripts to be integrated into literature, humanities and social and cultural history curriculum. It offers hundreds of thousands of pages of letters, poems, stories, plays, chronicles, religious writings and other materials. The collection features works from more than 1,000 authors and more than 500 years of manuscripts dating from roughly 1100 to 1660 - preceding and broadening the scope of the first series.
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This digital archive presents an extraordinary view into the culture and history of renowned and lesser-known writers of the period. British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval & Renaissance offers students and researchers unprecedented online access to 565,000 page images and descriptions of rare manuscripts, c.1100 to 1660 Contentsīritish Literary Manuscripts Online, Medieval and Renaissance is the second installment in Gale's groundbreaking British Literary Manuscripts Online series.
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