VHMML School teaches about scripts and manuscripts, introducing learners to the sciences of paleography and codicology, as well as transcription, for Latin and Eastern Christian materials.
Resources Available
- Scripts: Latin, Syriac, and Arabic paleography from Late Antiquity to today
- Folio: Offers images of manuscript pages from various traditions across the globe and across the ages. The collection is shaped to highlight the changing history of scripts in these traditions.
- Reference: Searchable bibliographical resources
- Lexicon: Introduces terms used in manuscript studies, alphabetical and searchable by term
- Reading Room: Comprehensive library of manuscripts, digitized microfilms and more
- Data Portal: Provides option of exporting curated datasets or the complete vHMML Reading Room dataset for digital humanities projects.
- VHMML Digital Humanities: Provides researchers with tools for using metadata downloaded from vHMML’s Data Portal to construct digital humanities projects; includes “Malta Parish Archives” and “Giovanni d’Andrea–Mapping Law in Medieval Spain” as examples
See also:
VHMML: Resources and tools for the study of manuscripts and currently features manuscript cultures from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. The site houses high-resolution images of manuscripts, many of them digitized
Vivarium: Digitized manuscripts from HMML and the collections from Saint John’s University and the College of Saint Benedict
Saint John’s University, College of Saint Benedict, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
