Maintained by Saundra Lipton (lipton@ucalgary.ca and Cheryl Adams ( cada@loc.gov )
Digital Images
General / Ancient Religions / Asian Studies / Biblical Studies / Buddhism / Christianity / Hinduism / Islam / Judaism
- Artstor Digital Library
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CDRI: Digital resources for the study of religion - The Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative of the American Theological Library Association and Association of Theological Schools is a repository of digital resources contributed by member libraries. Includes manuscripts, postcards, woodcuts, coins, maps etc.
- Digital Public Library of America - over 18 million items from libraries, archives and museums
- Digital Scriptorium -" image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research"
- Encyclopedia Mythica Image gallery
- Getty Search Gateway - over 160,000 photographs, 100,000 Visual Material and 26,000 Vessels and includes over 99,000 open content images . Note can Browse topics such as Mythology, Religious, Old Testament, Apostles/Saints
- Goodspeed Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago) - early Greek, Syriac, Ethiopic, Armenian, Arabic and Latin manuscripts from the 5th to 20 centuries
- HOLLIS Images - Harvard Library's catalog of images from the various collections of Harvard University - can limit to public domain items only
- Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web- links to over 2,900 online exhibits. Can browse by exhibit or search by name, institution or subject terms.
- New York Public Library Digital Library - over 700,000 items including images of prints, illuminated manuscripts, photographs, maps, moving images, sound recordings books , postcards etc.
- SOAS Digital Collections - photographs, maps, films, audo, manuscripts and other resources from the collection of SOAS, University of London
- Image Database of Inscriptions and Artifacts - " The InscriptiFact Project is a database designed to allow access via the
Internet to high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions from the Near
Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds. The target inscriptions are some of the
earliest written records in the world from an array of international museums
and libraries and field projects where inscriptions still remain in situ.
Included are, for example, Dead Sea Scrolls; cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia
and Canaan; papyri from Egypt; inscriptions on stone from Jordan,
Lebanon and Cyprus; Hebrew, Aramaic, Ammonite and Edomite inscriptions
on a variety of hard media (e.g., clay sherds, copper,
semi-precious stones, jar handles); and Egyptian scarabs.
These ancient texts represent religious and historical documents that serve
as
a foundation
and historical
point
of reference
for Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the cultures out of which they emerged." Must register to obtain a password
- BODO: Bibel +Orient Datenbank Online - seals, amulets and other objects from Old Testament world held by the Museum Fribourg in Switzerland
- The Oriental Institute - images of coins, jewelry, tablets, photographs etc.
- POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online - images of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri
- Art and the Bible - images of famous works of art based on stories in the Bible - links to Biblical texts are included
- Biblia Sacra - information and reproductions of bibles printed in the Netherlands and Belgium.
- Gutenberg Bible - searchable file of page images
See also Asian Studies
- Anno Domini: Jesus Through the Centuries - viritual exhibit by the Provincial Museum of Alberta
- Art and the Bible - can view biblical images by artist's name. Images are linked to the biblical text.
- Art in the Christian Tradition - " The Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) database is a freely available, regularly updated visual image internet resource. Designed for scholars, students, pastors, and religious educators, all of the images may be used for educational and/or religious non-profit purposes. Images are added regularly. There are currently 4469 images in the collection."
- Biblia Sacra - information and reproductions of bibles printed in the Netherlands and Belgium.
- Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
- Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis - digitized medieval manuscripts from the Cologne Cathedral Library
- Illuminated Manuscript Images from the Bodleian Library
- International Mission Photography Archives - "offers historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the United States. The photographs, which range in time from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, offer a visual record of missionary activities and experiences in Africa, China, Madagascar, India, Papua-New Guinea, and the Caribbean."
- Kunera - Database of Medieval Pilgrimage Art - includes over 13,000 images with accompanying information including links to books and articles
- Medieval Art and Architecture Images
- Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts ( Koninklijke Bibliotheek) - you can browse by subject or keyword search this major collection
- Medieval Manuscripts from the Pierpont Morgan Library - limit search to "medieval images only"
- Methodist Missionary Society Archival and Photographic Collections - glass slides, manuscripts, photographs, maps, books, oral histories and films
- Monastic Matrix - images from this"scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE"
- Morgan Library - major collection of over 50,000 images of medieval and renaissance manuscripts
- Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert
- Pilgerzeichendatenbank - database of Eurpean Middle Ages pilgrims badges
- Pitts Theology Library Digital Image Archive - The Digital Image Archive presents more than 60,000 images of biblical
illustrations, portraits of religious leaders, printers' devices,
engravings of church buildings, and other theological topics. They are
available for teaching, research, and other non-commercial purposes. Many of the images are from the Kessler Reformation Collection (emphasis on Lutheran material)
- Presbyterian Historical Society digital colletions - photographs, maps, videos etc.
- Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives Photographs
- Yale Divinity Digital Image and Text Library - includes the EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies and the AdHoc Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity
- The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art - 19,830 images and 2668 objects for Jewish ritual, architecture, manuscripts, ritual objects and funerary art
- British Library Hebrew Collections - 1300 have been digitised - uses the British Library Digitised Manuscripts to locate these. See The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts for information out this collection.
- Cairo Genizah (Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection and the Jacques Mosseri Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library ) - over 12,000 manuscripts including letters, legal deeds, liturgical texts
- The Center for Jewish Art Collection - over 200,000 digital items
- Digitized Manuscript Collection (National Library of Israel)
- Jewish Museum (New York) - select images from their collection
- Ketubbot - digital collection of over 4200 ketubbot from the National Library of Israel's collection
- Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary Digital Collections - includes Ketubot, wedding poems, pamphets (including sermons, lectures and reports), clippings, portraits etc. Limit "search scope" to digital collections
- Yale University exhibits Great assemblage: an exhibit of Judaica / The Passover Haggadah in the Yale University Library Collections
- Qumran The Orion Virtual Qumran Tour
- Second Temple Synagogues - an excellent site contains information on Second Temple Synagogues as well as an image gallery - compiled by Donald Binder
- Simon Wiesenthal Center Digital Archives - photographs, manuscripts, letters
- Visual Memory - historical photographs of Palestine-Israel
- Yad Vashem Photo Archive - index to photos, selected images are available online
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