Medieval England and France, 700–1200
The British Library’s Medieval England and France, 700–1200 website is currently unavailable but you can find information and access archive content from it below.
About the project
With the generous support of The Polonsky Foundation, the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France joined forces to digitise and promote access to 800 medieval manuscripts.
Four-hundred manuscripts from each Library were digitised in full, with the aim of making available primary sources for the comparative study of the artistic and cultural heritage of medieval England and France.
The manuscripts digitised were all produced in England or France between 700 and 1200. They comprise a wide range of texts, including biblical and theological works reflecting the interest of monks, abbots and clerics who were responsible for much of book production in the period before 1200.
Other topics include science, mathematics, music and medicine, Classical and contemporary literature and works on history and law.
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What is available online?
The website France et Angleterre: manuscrits médiévaux entre 700 et 1200 is hosted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It allows users to search the project manuscripts in English, French and Italian, and to view and compare manuscripts side-by-side using the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) technology.
Images can be annotated and downloaded, either as individual images or as a PDF of an entire manuscript. Annotations can also be downloaded as json format and shared.
The 400 British Library manuscripts are currently unavailable through the site. All the project manuscripts were catalogued to include up-to-date bibliography, the identification of texts and descriptions of the artwork. These descriptions can be viewed on Archives and Manuscripts for British Library manuscripts; and on Archives et manuscrits and Gallica for Bibliothèque nationale de France manuscripts.
The British Library-hosted Medieval England and France, 700–1200 website presented a curated selection of manuscripts highlighting various topics and manuscripts, covering themes such as history, illumination, science and manuscript making.
The content is currently unavailable on the British Library website while we restore functionality following a cyber-attack. We are aiming to restore a curated selection of content from the website in the future.
Articles from the archive
Below is a selection of articles hosted by the Internet Archive (which is independent of the British Library).
