Medieval Music: A Guide to Research and Resources

Lengthy article from Grove Music Online listing and describing the main manuscript sources of music in use before 1600, arranged by subject matter and also chronologically.

Open-access database of over 700,000 mainly manuscript sources, most written before 1800, from hundreds of libraries and archives around the world. This catalog gives public access to the RISM A/II series: Music Manuscripts after 1600. Search by composer, title, thematic catalog number, music incipit, library, etc.; some catalog entries include links to digitized sources. Sponsored by Répertoire international des sources musicales.

"This database holds details of the 17th- and 18th-century music manuscripts preserved in libraries and archives in the UK and Ireland. It includes manuscripts from national, public and academic libraries, county and city record offices, cathedral and chapel libraries and some private collections."

The Swiss RISM records music manuscripts and printed musical sources in Swiss libraries and archives.

Database, tables, and information on the medieval chant sources of central Europe. Maintained by the Institute for Musicology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Database (as Excel spreadsheet) of manuscripts available in facsimile online. Presently contains over 1,000, mostly notated liturgical manuscripts

Maintained by Peter Jeffrey. No longer maintained, but still contains useful links and information.

Indexes articles and other materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700. Includes articles, reviews, bibliographies, catalogs, editions, abstracts, discographies, and notes.

Maintained by the International Machaut Society, a scholarly organization founded in 1985 and devoted to the study, criticism, performance, research, and exchange of ideas related to all aspects of the works of the poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) and their manuscript and performance traditions.

Maintained by La Trobe University. Browse options include text, composer, genre, manuscript, and liturgical feast, and searches by text, melody, and descriptor.

Full-text version of the 55-volume edition of 1886-1922, providing a very comprehensive collection of the texts of medieval Latin hymns and other sacred songs, with historical and bibliographical notes. Detailed electronic indexing allows for a variety of complex searches across the volumes.