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• The Cloisters Apocalypse: An Early Fourteenth-Century Manuscript in Facsimile (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971), contrib. by Florens Deuchler, Jeffrey Hoffeld, and Helmut Nickel (PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Calendar of St. Willibrord, from Ms. Paris Lat. 10837: A Facsimile, With Transcription, Introduction, and Notes (calendar in Latin, commentary in English; Henry Bradshaw Society publication series v55; London: Harrison and Sons, 1918), ed. by H. A. Wilson, contrib. by Saint Willibrord (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain, Reproduced in Facsimile From the Unique Ms. Cotton Nero A.x in the British Museum (EETS original series #162; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Pres, 1923), ed. by Israel Gollancz (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Piety in Pieces: How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Kathryn M. Rudy (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Turning Over a New Leaf: Change and Development in the Medieval Manuscript (Leiden: Leiden University Press, c2012), ed. by Erik Kwakkel, Rosamond McKitterick, and Rodney M. Thomson (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi (5 volumes; 1978-2000), ed. by Sarah M. Horrall, Roger R. Fowler, Henry J. Stauffenberg, Peter H. J. Mous, L. M. Eldredge, and Anne L. Klinck
  • Volume I: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
  • Volume II: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
  • Volume III: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
  • Volume IV: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
  • Volume V: PDF with commentary at Ottawa

• Catalogo de los Códices Latinos de la Real Biblioteca del Escorial (5 volumes in Latin and Spanish; Madrid: Imp. Helénica, 1910-1923), by Guillermo Antolín
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I (a. I. 1 - d. IV. 32): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (e. I. 1 - K. III. 31): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (L. I. 2 - R. III. 23): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (S. I. 1 - Z. IV. 22; Vitrinas; Indice de Materias; Indice de Miniaturas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Procedencias; Organización y Catalogación; Indice General Primitivo): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury, by Richard de Bury, trans. by Ernest Chester Thomas
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at philobiblon.com

• Collaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal Culture: The Otho Layamon (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), by Elizabeth J. Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Matthew Fisher (PDF at Ohio State)
• A General Introduction to Domesday Book, Accompanied by Indexes of the Tenants in Chief, and Under Tenants, at the Time of the Survey, As Well as of the Holders of Lands Mentioned in Domesday Anterior to the Formation of That Record (2 volumes; London: Printed by command of H. M. King William IV, 1833), by Henry Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books: Harleian Ms. 279 (ab. 1430), and Harl. Ms. 4016 (ab. 1450); With Extracts From Ashmole Ms. 1429, Laud Ms. 553, and Douce Ms. 55 (EETS original series #91; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1888), ed. by Thomas Austin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Early South-English Legendary, or, Lives of Saints, I: Ms. Laud, 108, in the Bodleian Library (only volume published in Horstmann's projected Legendary series; EETS #87; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1887), ed. by Carl Horstmann
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Twelfth Century Homilies in MS. Bodley 343 ("Part I", texts and translations, only part published; EETS original series #137; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, and Co.; et al., 1909), ed. by A. O. Belfour (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1999), ed. by Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Vulgate Version of the Arthurian Romances (8 volumes; Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1908-1916), ed. by H. Oskar Sommer
  • Volume I (Lestoire del Saint Graal): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Lestoire de Merlin): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, Part I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, Part II): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, Part III): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Les Aventures ou La Queste del Saint Graal; La Mort le Roi Arthur): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Supplement: Le Livre d'Artus): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Index of Names and Places to Volumes I-VII): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• The Community of St. Cuthbert in the Late Tenth Century: The Chester-le-Street Additions to Durham Cathedral Library A.IV.19 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Karen Louise Jolly (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Text Collections from a European Perspective (Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2017), ed. by Karen Pratt, Bart Besamusca, Matthias Meyer, and Ad Putter (PDF in Germany)

• From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1987), by Sylvia Huot (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), by Kathryn M. Rudy (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The White book Mabínogíon: Welsh Tales and Romances Reproduced From the Peníarth Manuscripts (Welsh texts with English notes; 1907), ed. by J. Gwenogvryn Evans
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• American Historical and Literary Curiosities, Consisting of Fac-Similes of Original Documents Relating to the Events of the Revolution, &c. &c. (sixth edition; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), ed. by J. Jay Smith and John F. Watson (Gutenberg page images)
• American Historical and Literary Curiosities, Consisting of Fac-Similes of Some Plates, &c. Relating to Columbus, and Original Documents of the Revolution, &c. &c. ... Second Series (New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1860), ed. by J. Jay Smith (Gutenberg HTML and page images)

• Inheritance of Night: Early Drafts of Lie Down in Darkness (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), by William Styron, contrib. by James L. W. West (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished, in the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1925), by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by Mary Newton Stanard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Beowulf: Autotypes of the Unique Cottom Ms. Vitellius A XV in the British Museum, With a Transliteration and Notes (EETS original series #77; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by N. Trubner, 1882), ed. by Julius Zupitza (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Appendix Codicum Celeberrimorum Sinaitici, Vaticani, Alexandrini; Cum Imitatione Ipsorum Antiqua Manu Scriptorum (Greek manuscript facsimiles with Latin commentary; Leipzig: Giesecke et Devrient, 1867), ed. by Constantin von Tischendorf (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, Delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland, During the Sessions of 1855 and 1856 (Dublin: W. Hinch and P. Traynoe, 1878), by Eugene O'Curry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Acta et Processus Canonizationis Sanctae Birgittae: Codex Holmiensis A 14 (facsimile of Latin handwritten text, with introduction by Collijn in Swedish and French; Handskrifter Fràn Sveriges Medeltid #1; 1920), contrib. by Isak Collijn
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • page images at Harvard
• Gai Codex Rescriptus in Bibliotheca Capitulari Ecclesiae Cathedralis Verenensis Distinctus Numero XV (13), Cura et Studio Eiusdem Bibliothecae Custodis, Phototypice Expressus (in Latin; Leipzig: K. W. Hiersemann, 1909), by Gaius, contrib. by Antonio Spagnolo and Saint Jerome (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Disputationes Camaldulenses (Latin manuscript facsimile with pages in reverse order; ca. 1474), by Cristoforo Landino (page images at HathiTrust)

• Codex Fejérváry-Mayer: An Old Mexican Picture Manuscript in the Liverpool Free Public Museums (12014/M) (Berlin and London, 1901-1902), ed. by Eduard Seler, trans. by A. H. Keane
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some images stripped out
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Anvari's Divan: A Pocket Book for Akbar (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1983), by Annemarie Schimmel and Stuart Cary Welch (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Palestinian Syriac Texts From Palimpsest Fragments in the Taylor-Schechter Collection (London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1900), ed. by Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Appendix Codicum Celeberrimorum Sinaitici, Vaticani, Alexandrini; Cum Imitatione Ipsorum Antiqua Manu Scriptorum (Greek manuscript facsimiles with Latin commentary; Leipzig: Giesecke et Devrient, 1867), ed. by Constantin von Tischendorf (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Book of Thel (multiple copies), by William Blake (Java-dependent page images at blakearchive.org)

• The Networked Recluse: The Connected World of Emily Dickinson (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, 2017), contrib. by T. Michael Kelly, Carolyn Vega, Marta L. Werner, Susan Howe, and Richard Wilbur (PDF with commentary at Amherst (providing personal information is optional))

• Mediaeval Musical Relics of Denmark (Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1912), by Angul Hammerich, trans. by Margaret Williams Hamerik
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished, in the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1925), by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by Mary Newton Stanard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Inheritance of Night: Early Drafts of Lie Down in Darkness (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), by William Styron, contrib. by James L. W. West (page images at HathiTrust)

• Modern Bookbinding Practically Considered: A Lecture Read Before the Grolier Club of New-York, March 25, 1885, With Additions and New Illustrations (New York: The Grolier Club, 1889), by William Matthews (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On Art Binding: A Monograph (Memphis: S. C. Toof and Co., 1904), by Otto Zahn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Royal English Bookbindings (London: Seeley and Co.; New York: Macmillan, 1896), by Cyril Davenport (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Book of Common Prayer, King James, Anno 1604, Commonly Called the Hampton Court Book (facsimile reprint of the 1604 edition published by R. Barker; London: W. Pickering, 1844), by Church of England (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Märchen des Papyrus Westcar (2 volumes, in Egyptian and German; Berlin: W. Spemann, 1890), ed. by Adolf Erman
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • both volumes: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Legendary History of the Cross: A Series of Sixty-Four Woodcuts From a Dutch Book Published by Veldener, A.D. 1483 (London: T. F. Unwin, 1887), ed. by John Ashton, contrib. by S. Baring-Gould, Jacobus de Voragine, and William Caxton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Boke of Saint Albans (London: E. Stock, ca. 1901), by Juliana Berners, contrib. by William Blades
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain, Reproduced in Facsimile From the Unique Ms. Cotton Nero A.x in the British Museum (EETS original series #162; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Pres, 1923), ed. by Israel Gollancz (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain, Reproduced in Facsimile From the Unique Ms. Cotton Nero A.x in the British Museum (EETS original series #162; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Pres, 1923), ed. by Israel Gollancz (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Historia General del Piru: Facsimile of J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16 (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2003), by Martín de Murúa (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.