Internet and Libraries: 800 medieval manuscripts now online as part of the joint project of the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France

A two-year project, drawing upon the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the British Library, has made 800 manuscripts from the period 700-1200 available online in full for the first time.

The fully digitized manuscripts can be viewed on a bilingual curated website based on the BnF’s Gallica White Label platform, which uses the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) standard and Mirador viewer to enable users to browse, magnify, annotate and compare manuscripts side by side in a virtual study environment.