DMMapp - Digitized Medieval Manuscripts App

What's changed? The DMMapp's February 2023 release notes

Giulio Menna — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:30:29 +0000

What's changed? The DMMapp's February 2023 release notes

We're excited to announce the February 2023 release of a new version of our DMMapp (officially known as v.2023.02.23)!

Uppsala University Library / Uppsala Universitetsbiblioteket: New Repository and new Digitized Medeival Manuscripts

Giulio Menna — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:30:29 +0000

Uppsala University Library / Uppsala Universitetsbiblioteket: New Repository and new Digitized Medeival Manuscripts

We are excited to announce the addition of the Uppsala Universitetsbiblioteket / Uppsala University Library to the DMMapp! This valuable link was brought to our attention through the "Report Missing Institution" form, and we extend our heartfelt gratitude to the person who reported it.

The End of an Era: Saying Goodbye to the DMMapp after 12+ Years

Giulio Menna — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:30:29 +0000

The End of an Era: Saying Goodbye to the DMMapp after 12+ Years

It’s hard to say goodbye, but it’s time to pass the torch.

The Parker Library & Parker on the Web 2.0

Marjolein de Vos — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:30:29 +0000

The Parker Library & Parker on the Web 2.0

In December 2017 the Parker Library announced in a blog post that, soon, they would be launching their revamped website. Fast-forward to January 2018 and the Parker Library (Corpus Christi College) in Cambridge indeed launched their new website, Parker on the Web 2.0, made in cooperation with Stanford University Libraries. The improvements are many, but the biggest, and most exciting, is that now everyone can access their digitized manuscripts freely in high-resolution, without needing an institutional license.

The DMMmaps Project so far

Giulio Menna — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:30:29 +0000

The DMMmaps Project so far

There is something genuinely thrilling in discovering a digitized medieval manuscript! The DMMmaps Project is our small attempt to help everyone find these incredible books, by bringing together the libraries that make them available online.

A Few Words on the Digitized Medieval Manuscripts Map

Giulio Menna — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A Few Words on the Digitized Medieval Manuscripts Map

Uncharted Manuscripts' Territory, charted.

Putting the Sexy in Sexy Codicology

Giulio Menna — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Putting the Sexy in Sexy Codicology

Sexy Codicology, Year II

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the term "Sexy" the following way:

generally attractive or interesting: appealing \<a sexy stock>

15 New Libraries in the DMMapp

Giulio Menna — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

15 New Libraries in the DMMapp

June has been a productive month for the DMMmaps project: we were at the DH Benelux Conference in The Hague, Netherlands, presenting this project, but we have also received many new links to that were added to the database. So, without further ado, let's present the additions:

The "Beatus" Manuscripts

Giulio Menna — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The "Beatus" Manuscripts

For the series: "Some manuscripts are more interesting than others", we give you: Beatus de Liébana : Códice de Fernando I y Dña. Sancha, call number: VITR/14/2 from the National Library of Spain.

100 newly digitized manuscripts online

Giulio Menna — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

100 newly digitized manuscripts online

There is no way we could have come up with a better title. The British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France have just digitized 100 manuscripts, all dated between 700CE and 1200CE, and made them available online! The news is so awesome that as soon as we saw it on Twitter we decided we would write this post.

100 pre-1200 manuscripts have been added to the British Library's Digitised Manuscripts site. Get the list at https://t.co/GZkK4TtD0m pic.twitter.com/FhrQrB19at

— Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) March 16, 2017

The digitized manuscripts of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Giulio Menna — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The digitized manuscripts of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Marlay cutting It. 12 - The Burial of St Monica at Ostia (left) and St Augustine Departing for Africa (right). That little jewel in the in the center of Cambridge that is the Fitzwilliam Museum is home to an extraordinary collection of paintings, engravings, and most importantly for us, digitized medieval manuscripts. These manuscripts are available online (and linked in our app) so we went to give a look to see what wealth is available to us.

IIIF - The digitized manuscripts revolution we've all been waiting for!

Marjolein de Vos — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

IIIF - The digitized manuscripts revolution we've all been waiting for!

We created the DMMapp to make it easier for you to find collections of digitized manuscripts - and IIIF is making it easier for you to view, study, and compare manuscripts. In this post we are going to tell you all about why it’s awesome! In 2011, a group of international libraries and universities (Stanford University, The British Library, Bodleian Libraries, The Bibliothèque nationale de France, the National Library of Norway, Cornell University, and Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library) set up the International Image Interoperability Framework, or, in short, IIIF (pronounced as triple-I-F).

March Updates

Giulio Menna — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

March Updates

Hey Codicologists, We have reviewed our reported broken links on the DMMapp, added two new repositories!

New digitized manuscripts from the Vatican Library!

Giulio Menna — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

New digitized manuscripts from the Vatican Library!

Well, this is the third time here at Sexy Codicology that we are delighted to communicate that the Vatican Library has, once again, digitized and made available a few hundreds new manuscripts! Since we started the DMMmaps project, the Vatican Library has more than doubled the number of digitally available books. Plus, they have reorganized the home page: Where once you could see the endless list of manuscripts available (now 1'500+!), there is now a tidier page showing the collections and then number of digitized books you may find inside. An old problem is still present: it is impossible to know which were the most recently uploaded books; unfortunately there is no RSS, nor is there any specific announcement which tells us what is new. Too bad. I guess it is up to us users to explore!

New Libraries on the DMMapp!

Giulio Menna — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

New Libraries on the DMMapp!

It’s spring, the sun is shining, and the DMMapp has more links than ever thanks to the following additions:

The digital collection of the Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge (Public Library of Bruges)

Marjolein de Vos — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The digital collection of the Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge (Public Library of Bruges)

As someone who loves manuscripts and medieval culture, you might one day end up in Belgium, exploring Flanders, and you might go to Bruges, which was flourishing in the Middle Ages. The area has produced countless beautiful manuscripts with a very typical and recognizable style of illuminations now preserved at the Public Library of Bruges. Bruges’ golden days were in the Middle Ages when it was a very prosperous harbor city that attracted many merchants. The historical city centre today is still much like it was in the Middle Ages which makes it an amazing place to visit for every medievalist (or everyone. Period). While you are there, there is also a library you should visit: the Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge (OBB) - Public Library of Bruges and its extensive collection, which you can visit here or here.

On "Quill" - Extended edition

Giulio Menna — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

On "Quill" - Extended edition

As you surely know, "Quill" was recently launched. Quill is a website a new website for medieval manuscript lovers put together by Dr. Erik Kwakkel, who had the idea, took care of the texts and made sure it'd be a success, and I, who had the pleasure of taking care of the photos. Erik put together a fantastic blog post about it, to which I contributed too. I ended up writing a bit too much for it, so it had to be reduced a bit in length in the end.

Quill: a new website for medieval manuscript lovers!

Giulio Menna — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Quill: a new website for medieval manuscript lovers!

A super-cool website about medieval manuscripts has gone online today!

"This is to alert you to a new product of the "Turning Over a New Leaf” project: a website (in English) devoted to the medieval manuscript, aimed at a non-expert audience: https://quill.leiden.edu/. Some sixty web pages take you through the different production stages of the manuscript, and highlight important facets of the book before print. Short explanatory texts are paired with beautiful photographs, produced by Giulio Menna, professional photographer and co-producer of the website.

Quill went live today and was two years in the making. It was produced with funding of De Jonge Akademie, logistical support of Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), and with generous help of Leiden University Library, Special Collections."

400+ links on the DMMapp!

Giulio Menna — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

400+ links on the DMMapp!

We are extremely proud to communicate that the DMMapp has now reached (and surpassed... we are adding a few in the next days!) the 400 links milestone! This means that, thanks to everyone's submissions, we can link to more than 400 libraries, archives, repositories, etc. that are home to digitized medieval manuscripts! You can find the latest additions on our tidy list. Also, here's a short list of the latest additions:

543!

Giulio Menna — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

543!

That's how many repositories, websites, libraries, etc. you can now visit through the DMMapp! BX 2080 1455 Vault - Book of hours: use of Utrecht [1455-1465] - "Page 26" Yes, we have been busy updating the data, amd we also took the occasion to delete or update a couple of links that stopped working and that we kindly notified to us via Twitter / Email.