Electronic Images

General

• American Religion Image Library
• Bible Lands - division of Educational Video Network
• 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
• 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"
• 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 These ancient texts represent religious and historical documents that serve as a foundation and historical point of reference for Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the cultures out of which they emerged."
• 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.
• Heritage Image Partnership (Images from the British Library, Guildhall and the Science Museum)
• New York Public Library Digital Library - over 300,000 images of prints, illuminated manuscripts, photographs, maps, postcards etc.

Asian Studies

• Asian Art - links to exhibits
• Jainism
• Mohan Ayyar's Hindu Image Gallery
• Japanese Old Photographs in the Bakumatsu-Meiji period (1860-1899)

Christianity

• Anno Domini: Jesus Through the Centuries - viritual exhibit by the Provincial Museum of Alberta
• 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 2688 images in the collection."
• Biblical Art on the WWW - subject arranged links to images
• Biblical Artworks
• Cairo Coptic Museum
• Catalogue of Digitzed Medieval Manuscripts - can search by date, provenance, language, text, repository, author and browse by location, shelfmark, author, title, language
• Christus Rex
  This page has many religious images including the Sistine Chapel. Christus Rex is a "private, non-profit organizaiton which presents over 5,000 images of religious works of art preserved in churches, cathedrals and monasteries around the world".

  Gutenberg Bible - searchable file of page images

  History and Art in the coats of arms of the Popes

  Icons and Photos from the Coptic church

  Illuminated Manuscript Images from the Bodleian Library

  Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity (Yale Divinity School)

  Image data base for Biblical Studies - images from Yale Divinity School Digital Library

  Internet Mission Photography Archive -" The Internet Mission Photography Archive offers historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, 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. The photographs reveal the physical influence of missions, visible in mission compounds, churches, and school buildings, as well as the cultural impact of mission teaching, religious practices, and Western technology and fashions. Indigenous peoples' responses to missions and the emergence of indigenous churches are represented, as are views of landscapes, cities, and towns before and in the early stages of modern development."

  Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection ( Pitts Theological Library Digital Archive) - focus on Lutheran material

  Medieval Art and Architecture Images

  Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts ( Koninklijke Bibliotheek) - you can borwse by subject or keyword search this major collection

  Medieval Manuscripts from the Pierpont Morgan Library - limit search to "medieval images only"

  Monastic Matrix - images from thise "scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE"

  Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert

  Okeanos: Biblical, Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies - note particularly the museums section

  Online Icons

  Orthodox Icons

  Palace of Diocletian at Split

  Pitts Theology Library Digital Image Archive - The Digital Image Archive presents more than 28,000 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.

  Vatican Exhibit

Islam

• Islamic Architecture - MIT Libraries
• Islamic Architecture in Isfahan - contains photographs and descriptions of Islamic architectural styles from the 11th to the 19th century
• Islamic Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Mingana Collection of Islamic Manuscripts - University of Birmingham

Judaism

• Archaeological sites in Israel
• Dalsheimer Rare Book Exhibit from the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati - features, music, bookplates, manuscripts, maps etc
• Franz Rosenzweig, His Life and Works
• From written to printed text: the transmission of Jewish tradition - Center for Judaic Studies at Penn
• Image Database for Biblical Studies
• Israel National Photo Collection
• Jerusalem 3000 exhibit - images of maps
• The Jerusalem Mosaic - iImages of Jerusalem
• Images from Jewish history in Southwest US - photographs from the Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives
• Jewish Museum
• Ketubbot - digital collection of over 1200 ketubbot from the Jewish National and University Library's collection
• Khi rbet Qumran on the Web - index to images of the site, can search by coin t ype and object
• Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary Digital Collections - includes Ketubot, wedding poems, pamphets (including sermons, lectures and reports), clippings, portraits etc.
• Material Culture of the Ancient Canaanites, Israelites and Related Peoples: An Information Database from Excavations
• Okeanos: Biblical, Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies - note particularly the museums section
• Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts
• Yale University exhibits Great assemblage: an exhibit of Judaica / The Passover Haggadah in the Yale University Library Collections
• Second Temple Synagogues - an excellent site contains information on Second Temple Synagogues as well as an image gallery
• Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive- Virtual Cinema - 400 films are currently available. You can also search the complete film catalog
• State of Israel National Photo Collection - can search in caption, by photography, subject date etc.
• Synagogues destroyed during Kristallnacht

Other

• Mythology in Western Art - collection of images

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