![]() ![]() However, the downloadable version of each image is low-resolution and high resolution images need to be ordered, and fees might apply. Images may be used for non-commercial research purposes, with appropriate credit. Splendid illuminated manuscripts from the museum’s collection. The collection allows users to share and adapt images, with appropriate citation. Both of these licences allow free sharing and adaptation of the image, on the understanding that it will be credited appropriately (which all good medievalists should aspire to!) This collection is remarkable for its illuminated and illustrated Islamic manuscripts (9th-19th centuries), found here. The Walters’ Flickr page also makes images available under a ShareAlike 2.0 licence. ![]() All of these images are released for free under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license for anyone who wants to use them. The Walters Manuscript and Rare Book Collection. This collection is available via a Public Domain Mark which indicates that there are no copyright restrictions on reproduction, adaptation, republication or sharing of the content available from the site. The British Library, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts. However, I have begun to indicate below where high resolution images are easily downloadable, as this is important to those hoping to publish with these images. Undoubtedly these viewers have their uses, and a low resolution image can be used fruitfully on blogs/Twitter/other online publications – so I have included them below. These images will be useless for publication. However, the image is often either a) downloadable only as a thumbnail to medium size image via a button above the viewer, or b) when you right click to save the image, it grabs a low-res image of whatever part of the image you are viewing at the time. Please contact me with recommendations, if you have further examples of repositories that have put their images in the public domain.Įdit: many manuscripts are digitised and uploaded as part of image viewers, where the user can pan around the image and even zoom to a very high resolution. I’ve decided to focus this post on collections that include material from the medieval and early modern period, but many (most?) of them also extend beyond that timeframe. ![]() Therefore, with significant help from my friend and colleague Kate Thomas ( For the Wynn) and the insights given to me by others on Twitter, I’ve put together a list of collections which have a researcher-friendly policies regarding downloading and sharing manuscript images. However, it can be difficult to a) find these images, b) know whether you are allowed to use them, and c) know where you stand when it comes to reproducing them in open access publications (where the licence often states that content can be adapted and shared freely). More and more beautiful, high-resolution, images of medieval manuscripts are appearing online. Folding Almanac (15th C), MS 8932, Wellcome Library, London ![]()
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