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Manuscripts, Medieval
manuscripts renaissance
Illumination of books and manuscripts

Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian

Miniature painting, Iranian

Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts

The Miscellany Collection at Tisch
A small collection of manuscript leaves, and others from early printed books.

Islamic Manuscripts Online

The Digital Scriptorium

(medieval and renaissance manuscripts from many institutions.)

More Manuscripts

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)

B. Searches & Results

(note the search pattern; modify to your own needs)

Broad Topics:

Costume -- Early Works To 1800.

Clothing And Dress -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.

clothing and dress in art

Islamic art

Italy -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.

Cartography -- Italy.

Italy and (renaissance or medieval) and (trade or commerce)

(italy or italian) and levant

East and West

Narrower Topics, e.g. the Wandering Jews

jew* and (orient* or east* or islam*) and diaspora

su:jew* and (orient* or east* or islam*) and cultur*

Material culture and Jew*

**Use ( ) and OR to group related words in a search;

**cultur* searches for culture, cultural, etc.

Advanced keyword search:

Click here to see search results

ARTstor

Artifact (Tufts University)

Index of Christian Art

Set up for your ILliad account

Use ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan Service, to request articles, books and other materials that are not available at Tufts.

Chicago Style Manual

RefWorks

A. Use the subject databases to find journal articles and to situate yourself within a critical discourse; that's where you can learn to be conversant with the critics writing in your field.

1 & 2. JSTOR and Project Muse
JSTOR is a favorite with its full texts in core journals of all disciplines. Project Muse does not include exactly the same JSTOR journals, but it has more recent and current articles on many topics.

Expand your search in more databases.

3. Period Studies

International Medieval Bibliography (400-1500).

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400 -1700).

 

4. BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art = Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art
Getty Art History Information Program, 1973-2009 [Publication suspended 31 March 2010.

 

5. Search across these subjects or separately:

Art, Architecture, Islamic Studies, and Literature
(including International Bibliography of Art 2009-present.)

 

6. Explore your topic from other perspectives:

History, Religion, and Women's Studies

7. When use GoogleScholar, set your Library Links to access Tufts full texts.

B. Find More Articles like this "perfect" one

How:

Search, in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, for the article you have read. For example the article in your syllabus:

Derbes, Anne. " Siena and the Levant in the Later Dugemto + The Mutual influences of Eastern and Western Medieval Art." Gesta 28: 2 (1989), 190-204.
References: 95 Times Cited: 5

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 95 references that Anne Derbes cited for her article and, in turn, 5 articles that cited hers. The assumption is that these articles address related issues.

Note:

1. Not every single article is cited;
2. Influential authors are cited more often;
3. More recent publications take time to be cited.

C. Find "Literature Review"

Reviews of recent books and other types of review articles in major journals in a discipline are likely to summarize the current state of research in an area.

An example of review of Books:

Howard, Deborah. "Venice & the East [review]"Renaissance Quarterly 56: 1 (2003) 172-173.

 

Recently Published Reviews

 

 

A Few Core Journals

Renaissance Quarterly

Renaissance Studies

 

The Art Bulletin.

Art History

 

Islamic Studies

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

The Middle East Journal

Muqarnas

 

Architectural History

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

 

Find an electronic-journal by title

1. Click on the button in your search results screen to a window of three sequential options:

a. link to the digital full text when available;

b. link to a Library Catalog search for the print journal;

c. link to ILliad for requesting the article when the above two options are negative.

2. Search for a journal directly here:

a. Tufts Library Catalog (including e-journals)

b. Electronic journals list

c. Use ILliad to request your article, if Tufts does not have your journal.