An electronic catalogue of vernacular manuscript books of the Medieval WestMidlands

"The manuscripts of the West Midlands have long been valuable resources for medieval English literary and book history. Research has focused on individual manuscripts or small groups. Surviving in large numbers and from well-documented regional centres of book production, they potentially offer a resource for investigation of the regional parameters of manuscript culture. Systematic manuscript geography has hitherto been inhibited by lack of research tools for large-scale comparative work. This project aims to enhance the value of these resources for manuscript geography in particular and medieval literary and cultural history more generally by creating a new electronic research resource: An Electronic Catalogue of Vernacular Manuscript Books of the Medieval West Midlands". (from project web site; please see for more details).