Manuscripts
Below you will find links to digitized manuscript collections from various institutions worldwide. These collections include valuable medieval and ancient texts in the Syriac, Coptic, Geez (Ethiopian) and Byzantine languages. You can explore original documents, photographs of manuscripts, and research materials that are available online.
Common resources
vHMML – Virtual Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (requires login)
Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library (requires login)
The Bibliothèque nationale de France
Uppsala University – Carolina Rediviva (Alvin)
Note: You can find the login credentials for vHMML and Sinai Manuscripts on OpenAthens after authenticating.
Tradition-specific Collections
Byzantine:
Pinakes – Institute for Research and History of Texts
Coptic:
Ge’ez/Ethiopian:
Syrian:
Church Slavonic Manuscripts
Belarus
Book of Belarus from the 14th to the 18th centuries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Corpus of Medieval Bosnian Manuscripts
Index of Words and Forms of the Zographou Gospel
Bulgaria
National Library of Ivan Vazov, Plovdiv
Croatia
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU)
Czechia
Egypt
Saint Catherine Sinai Monastery (microfilm scans)
France
National Library of France (BNF)
Germany
Israel
Greek and Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem
Lithuania
Wróblewski's Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
Macedonia
Pelister (samples in low quality)
Moldova
National Library of the Republic of Moldova
Poland
Romania
Library of the Romanian Academy
Russia
Russian National Library Digitized Manuscripts
Virtual Manuscript Exhibitions
Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Corpus of Old Slavic Texts from the XIth c.
Full Collection of Russian Annals
New Church Slavonic liturgical texts
Serbia
Svetozar Marković University Library in Belgrade
Šabac Library (old prints)
Slovenia
National and University Library (NUK)
Ukraine
Digital Library of Historical and Cultural Heritage
Vasyl Stefanyk Lvov National Science Library of Ukraine
United Kingdom
Slavic Manuscripts (microfilm scans)
United States
The Morgan Library & Museum (New York)
Vatican