Annotated Bibliography

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/finearts/illum3.htm

This was the site Pat Thompson, the art librarian, provided to me as a point of departure for my project. When I first looked at the site, there was a left frame that provided an index of types. When I clicked on a type it took to me a range of numbered entries. I intended to model my site on this template, but realized that hand-coding this would take too long and would produce a technologically dull outcome.

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/art/illumman.html

I used this site as a template for tool bars and navigation. This scope of this site is much smaller than the UNC catalog project, as it provides entries only for selected manuscripts. This site is more technologially advanced in that it is searchable by form with a cgi script.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/rare/images/

This is Columbia Universities Rare Book and Manuscript Library page. This site is similar to mine in that it is the searching is hard-coded. If you click on a category of grouping (Call number, Author and Call number among others) you are taken to a new page that displays all of the entries. I set up my site in a similar way, using, instead the type groupings designed by the Pat Thompson and Teri Devoe.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MEDmanupainting.htm

This website provides a good, simple introduction to Manuscript history and type descriptions.

http://www.si.umich.edu/Art_History/demoarea/htdocs/index.html

This site provides a goal to shoot for. This is a searchable database of art images at the University of Michigan. You can browse by artist, nationality, and type (of all art objects). This would be useful for this site because currently it can be sorted only by defined type.

http://www.providence.edu/dwc/medmanu.htm

This is a webpage at Providence College that is intended as a source-page for research. I found that most University websites devoted to the subject of manuscripts were long-page source books of other sites and sources of images.

http://www.hmml.org

The Hill Monastic Manuscript Library. This is a high-end website that provides images of original, library-owned manuscripts from its many collections. Because it is not searchable and documents are grouped by donor-named collection, it would be difficult for an outside researcher to search for particular documents.

http://orb.rhodes.edu/index.html

A wonderful source for discussion of manuscripts by region. This site is an invaluable source manuscript images that can be used in other sites for instructional purposes. The site states " ORB hopes to make available to users a growing collection of downloadable graphic images. In some cases, these are images that can be used to illustrate lectures and amplify home pages. Some may be restricted to classroom use."

http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/culture/books/

This page within the site gives a lengthy description of book production and diagrams. This link would be a great source for someone unfamiliar with Illuminated manuscript types.

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/browse.htm

This site provides images of manuscipts of which UNC owns facsimiles. It arranges its manuscripts by century and country. While I do not plan to change the arrangement of my catalog to reflect this structure, I hope to make the site searchable by these categories.

MANUSCRIPT IMAGE SITES :

http://wally.rit.edu/cary/manuscripts/

This site provides examples of leaves from a variety of western Illuminated manuscripts

http://www.bl.uk/diglib/treasures/

This is the website of the British Library Exhibition Galleries. It contains short histories of manuscripts and images. I provided a link to it from the Lindisfarne Gospels entry in my site. UNC owns a facsimile of the Lindisfarne Gospels.

http://wally.rit.edu/cary/manuscripts/lectionary3.html

This is the source of my lectionary information and image.

SOURCEBOOKS:

http://www.anu.edu.au/history/medieval/compendia/compendia.htm

An online source book.

http://www.tesarta.com/www/resources/art.html

An example great information presented simply. This is an exhaustive list of Ancient and Medieval art sources. There is no heading on the top. It is simply a list of links.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/

This is a searchable medieval source book. The html is simple, but there is a boolean search engine on the site. For the most part it contains sites referenced in other on-line source books.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

I thought this site was a good example of what not to do. It contains a lot of information, laid out in a confusing manner. It claims that it provides lengths to downloadable non-copyrighted images; instead there are some map images scanned from a text book. The linked sites say nothing about free use. Of all the source-books, however, this one is the most comprehensive, as it addresses not only manuscripts, but medieval history in general

GRAPHICS SOURCES:

http://www.webomator.com/bws

This is the webisite of Bradley W. Schenck. He provided Celtic Graphics free of charge. I will provide a graphic link directly to his site when the Catalog becomes open to the public on the Art Library’s server. I looked at hundreds of free graphics sites and did not use any of the stuff I saw. I did not like any of the animations and most of the gif files looked liked cartoons or greeting-card covers.