Please please don't hesitate to contact me for more information, resources, or questions. It's my job to help prepare and serve you as the face of our museum and I'd love to work with you!
Contact Librarian: Rachel Sietz
rsietz@generalmuseum.org
(617) 585-9236 ext. 16
Reference Sources: Larger contextual resources to orient the subject matter in the academic lexicon of art history. You'll find definitions and essays written by experts about materials, styles, historical periods, and much more.
Oxford Art Online: Subscription tool that includes Grove Art Online, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Written by experts complete with bibliographies.
Credo Reference: Subscription reference tool with over 1,200 titles from over 70 publishers adding cross-reference content and contextual results. (The illuminated manuscript entry from Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions is quite excellent)
Judaism101.com: a great free online resource about Judaism. Glossary of terms (which are especially useful for understanding what a given text or concept is), important people, places, holidays, texts, and links to reference sources.
General (Christian) Manuscript Resources: Blog posts, catalogs, videos, lectures, online facsimiles, exhibitions, and resource guides to Western European manuscripts
British Library's Catalog of Illuminated Manuscripts. There are also 12 virtual exhibitions complete with a chronological introduction to illuminated manuscripts.
Illuminated Manuscripts page of The Warburg Institute with links to reference sources, image databases, and individual manuscripts. There's also a sister page on manuscripts
Interactive walkthrough of making a medieval manuscript including graphics, videos, and text from the Fitzwilliam Museum. Super fun.
Blog about medieval and earlier manuscripts run by the British Library
“Pigments Through the Ages” web exhibit about the history, manufacturing, and technical details of 40 different pigments with time periods, mediums, and techniques.
Catalog of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts by the Center for Medieval Renaissance Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. (No longer updated, but still an excellent list of over 3,000 links about manuscripts.)
Making Manuscripts video by the J. Paul Getty Museum and The Structure of a Medieval Manuscript
"Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings" BBC documentary series which focuses on illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings.
Hebrew Manuscript Resources: Online exhibitions, online facsimiles, lectures, blog posts, digitized collections, and articles specifically about Hebrew manuscripts
Online Rylands Collections of 26,000 digitized manuscripts from the Old Cairo Genizah in Egypt.
Informative blog post about an illuminated mahzor (Jewish High Holiday prayerbook) from Tuscany that went on sale in 2012.
'Crossing Borders' exhibition webpage of Arabic, Latin, and Hebrew manuscripts from the Bodleian Library at The Jewish Museum. Online exhibition here
Four lectures from Yeshiva University Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Intellectual Life of Medieval Ashkenazi Jews, Making Hebrew Manuscripts in a Gentile World, Hebrew Manuscripts after Gutenberg, and a panel discussion lecture on the Art of Hebrew Manuscripts.
Islamic Manuscript Resources: Online exhibitions, articles, and collections about Islamic manuscripts
Online exhibition entitled 'Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting from the Morgan Library & Museum.'
Islamic manuscript collection at Princeton University
Illuminated Islamic manuscripts at Yale University
An excellent and detailed Wikipedia entry on Ottoman illumination
Companion Wikipedia page about Islamic calligraphy
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