Beth Lee -- Calligraphy & Book Arts -- Resources: historical manuscripts

The Lindisfarne Gospel (late 7th to early 8th century AD), using Turning The Pages™ technology at the British Library. Choose from the menu, "Pinnacle of Anglo-Saxon Art".
Images from the Book of Kells, c. 800 AD.
The Aberdeen Bestiary Project, an online exhibit of a manuscript, written and illuminated in England around 1200 AD. A wonderful resource.
The Black Book of Carmarthen, c. 1250 AD — digital images, and a history.
Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, the famous, sumptuous book of hours completed at the end of the 15th century.
Sforza Hours, another book of hours using Turning The Pages™ technology at the British ibrary. Choose from the menu, "Masterpiece of the Renaissance".

The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is a ground-breaking international collaboration based at the British Library to make information and images of more than 100,000 manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and other Silk Road sites freely available on the Internet.
The Art of the Book in the Ilkhanid Period, 1256-1353 AD, presented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Throughout the web site of the Freer and Sackler galleries are presented many manuscripts of Asian origin.

The Morgan Library houses an immense collection of historical documents; a tiny selection of images is shown here, in excellent resolution, if you choose to zoom in.
The Bodleian Library digital library projects present images of medieval manuscripts.
The Cary Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, presents 51 leaves from medieval manuscripts from Western Europe in the 12th through 16th centuries.
European Illustrated Books and Manuscripts, c.1400-1700', compiled by Takami Matsuda.
The Web Gallery of Art presents images of gothic and renaissance illuminated manuscripts from 1150 to 1550.
Collection of medieval manuscripts presented online by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Medieval illuminated manuscripts presented online by the Meermanno, Netherlands.
Western Manuscript Collection at Dartmouth College.
Art of the Book in the Middle Ages, presented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Yale University's Arts of the Book Collection includes this searchable online database. Not particularly intuitive, the database holds a wealth of images. The images from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library are numerous, large and clear.

GBW's online exhibits.
Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, offer a wide variety of artist books for sale. Great images, and an interesting perspective on the book arts world today.
Science & the Artist's Book, and excellent online exhibition at the Smithsonian.
Abecedarium — an Exhibit of Alphabet Books.
Guild of Book Workers' 100th Anniversary Exhibition.
Flagbook Bind-o-Rama — an exhibit of flag books.
Spring[binding] Hath Sprung — an exhibit of springback bindings.

1000 Journals, an ongoing collaboration of journal artists, with many scanned images.
Visual Thinking, an online exhibition of sketchbooks in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian.