Online
Note that many libraries all around Europe and the globe have made their manuscripts available online. Since not every library can be listed below, it is a good strategy to try to explore the digital resources of the library that holds the manuscript of interest to you. For example, the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (Laurentian library in Florence) and its manuscripts can be accessed online.
- Digitized Greek manuscripts
Simple database linking to images and descriptions of all fully digitized Greek manuscripts. - Early Latin manuscripts
Based on E. A. Lowe’s Codices Latini Antiquiores – “focuses on non-documentary texts written before the year 800. All of the manuscripts in Lowe’s corpus and its supplements will be found in the database, along with corrections by Lowe and later scholars.” - Greek Codicology/Paleography – Oxford Bibliography
Comprehensive annotated bibliography by Immaculada Pérez Martín from Oxford Bibliographies Online. - Greek Paleography: From Antiquity to the Renaissance Comprehensive tutorial created by Timothy Janz.
- Latin Paleography, Editing, & Transmission of Classical Texts: Oxford Bibliography
Comprehensive annotated bibliography by Maura Lafferty from Oxford Bibliographies Online. - Latin Paleography: From Antiquity to the Renaissance Comprehensive tutorial created by Timothy Janz.
- Pinakes
Descriptive database of Greek manuscripts hosted by the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes. - Pyle: a gateway to Greek manuscripts
Collects resources related to Greek palaeography and codicology for teaching and research. - Printed Catalogs Online
List of online Greek manuscript catalogues maintained at Dumbarton Oaks. - Dumbarton Oaks: Manuscripts on Microfilm Database
Dumbarton Oaks’ Research Library holds more than 2000 microfilm reels of medieval and early modern manuscripts. - Gallica (digitised collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Includes almost all medieval manuscripts in their collection - Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux Repository with links to digitised manuscripts in French libraries
- Vatican Library digitised collections
Including manuscripts - Bibliotheca Legum
Gateway to the study of medieval manuscripts of Roman law, including links to digitised images
In Print
- Ancient Greek Scholarship: a guide to finding, reading, and understanding scholia, commentaries, lexica, and grammatical treatises, from their beginnings to the Byzantine period. Dickey, E. Oxford.
Classmark: PA 53 .D53 DIC - Scribes and Scholars: a guide to the transmission of Greek and Latin literature. Reynolds, L. D. Oxford, 2013. Fourth edition.
Classmark: Z 40 REY - Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Bischoff, Bernhard. Translated by Dáibhí O Cróinin and David Ganz. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Classmark: Z 114 BIS
The most current work on Latin palaeography. - An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography. Thompson, Edward Maunde. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1912.
Classmark: Z 113.8 THO
Still the standard manual in English on Greek palaeography.