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Doing online manuscript research is not that difficult, if you know where to look. In this short overview, I will present some of the most useful websites for doing such a task. The information we are looking for requires little prior knowledge. Still, it might be useful to have some basic understanding of codicology and palaeography when looking at scans. For that purpose, I recommend reading the first chapter (esp. pp....

An Airtable (wait a few seconds for it to load) with manuscripts that I found during my research. All manuscripts are from the 10-12th c. and contain at least one text that can be characterized as ‘pastoral’. Selecting a manuscript will display additional notes with the relevant texts. To the search the full table click here. I want to use this list for a project that I will start in April at the Universität Tübingen....