This is a list of printed and on-line vocabularies, taxonomies and ontologies relevant to medieval manuscript studies.
It is intended to serve as a resource for Europa Inventa and for the [CARMEN Medieval Manuscripts Group].
PERSONAL NAMES
Fabian, Claudia. Personennamen des Mittelalters 2nd ed. (Saur, 1999)
ULAN - Universal List of Artists' Names (Getty)
GEOGRAPHIC NAMES
TGN - Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Getty)
Graesse, Johann. Orbis Latinus (Braunschweig, 1972)
TIME PERIODS
MANUSCRIPT TERMINOLOGY
Hughes, Andrew. Medieval manuscripts for Mass and Office: a guide to their organization and terminology (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982)
SUBJECTS and CONCEPTS
AAT - Art and Architecture Thesaurus (Getty)
WordNet - general high-level ontology
ICONCLASS
CIDOC CRM Core - high-level ontology for cutlural heritage
VRA Core Categories [www.vraweb.org/vracore3.html]
GENERAL
TEI and ontologies http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=tei-ontology-sig