Scrolls in the Middle Ages
This site contains information on, links to, and bibliography for all known Western literary scrolls. This online resource will be updated regularly, and provides a single source of comprehensive information about scrolls in the Middle Ages.
Explore the Scrolls Database
The database provided here contains a comprehensive list of Medieval scrolls, which generally are mentioned only occasionally or in passing, in discussions of the history of the book, or in references to scroll format when it is used for a particular type of text.
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Scrolls in the Age of the Book
This free online course, led by Professor Thomas Forrest Kelly, provides an
introduction to the making and use of scrolls in the European
Middle Ages. Participants in this course will see and examine in
detail a number of beautiful objects, and come to understand the
thinking of those who chose the scroll format for their texts.
Scrolls in the Age of the Book also features a guided tour of an
exhibition on Harvard University's collection of medieval scrolls,
held at Houghton Library, Harvard's special collections library,
in Spring 2014. Each scroll featured in the exhibit has been fully
digitized by Harvard's Preservation Services division, and participants
will have the opportunity to interact with them in unprecedented
fashion using Mirador, a state-of-the-art image viewer developed
by Harvard and Stanford Universities.