Research Guides: Medieval Trade and Travel: Websites and Databases

Manuscripts Databases

VFL Database
Database that locates specific manuscripts by Roll number for study of the VFL microfilm collection.
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Digitized manuscripts in German state libraries.
Biblioteca apostolica vaticana
Vatican Library manuscripts catalog
Biblioteca Nacional de Espana
Manuscritos
British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
Find and view descriptions and images of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the British Library.
CORSAIR
Online catalog of the Morgan Library
Digital Scriptorium
Digital Scriptorium is a growing consortium of American libraries and museums committed to free online access to their collections of pre-modern manuscripts.
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Our website unites scattered resources from many institutions into a national digital platform for teaching and scholarly research. It serves to connect an international user community to multiple repositories by means of a digital union catalog with sample images and searchable metadata.
DigiVatLib
Digitized manuscripts of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican Library)
Gallica
Digital repository of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France
Luxury Bound
A corpus of more than 3,800 later medieval manuscripts illustrated in the Low Countries, compiled, maintained and updated in an electronic database (Microsoft Access) in 1997-2012.

Pilgrimage in Medieval Europe
Essay and images by the The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Confraternity of Saint James
Information about the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.
Via Francigena
Information on the Pilgrimage to Rome
Medieval Islamic Travel Writers
Introductory List
Medieval Jewish Travel Writers
Introductory List
Marco Polo's Travels
Series of digitized images from the manuscript located at the Bodleian.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook Selected Sources: Economic Life
Fordham University
Commercial Exchange, Diplomacy, and Religious Difference between Venice and the Islamic World
Essay and images by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Venice's Principal Muslim Trading Partners: the Mamluks, the Ottomans, and the Safavids
Essay and images by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medieval Economy
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La Digithèque Henri Pirenne
Le développement des villes et du commerce
BnF dossier pédagogiques
The Age of Discovery
Fordham University