Here's some links to useful things:
Music related:
psallite.thedancingmaster.net/
- website of the Cinnabar group Psallite, with music and rhyming translations by Kasha
www.pbm.com/~lindahl/minstrel.html
- the SCA Minstrel Homepage
www.pbm.com/~lindahl/music.html
- the SCA Medieval and Renaissance Music Homepage
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/spanogle/emusic.html
- THL Teleri's Medieval and Renaissance Music resources links
https://sites.google.com/view/old-toms-commonplace-boke/home
- Tommaso's website, which has music, esp. period guitar, stories, and bread recipes
- On-line home of the SCA Middle Kingdom bardic community. Maintained by Master Cerian Cantwr.
- web home for poetry by my apprentice Andreas Blacwode.
https://earlymusicmuse.com/kalendamaya/
- An excellent article, using Kalenda Maya as an example, about the contradictions between oral tradition and the written page.
- if a tune was in various mss., all versions are here, each separate
- all in modern round notes w/o rhythm, no words - melodies only
Cantigas de Santa Maria database
- note: the music can be viewed in Gregorian notation or modern round notes without rhythm
- also you can expand the plicas (check a box in upper right)
- also has all lyrics
https://festival.lochac.sca.org/bardic/
- website of Lochac bards, which includes the Llibre Vermell, aka Red Book of Montserrat, 14c Catalan music
- a searchable database of Gregorian chant
http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/
- Playford, all the editions
- facsimiles
Looking for some Christmas music? If you are on FB, check the files of the SCA Bardic group for the zipped file Music for Wassail 12th Night. It's a huge compliation by Lady Siri, and is bound to have the song you were looking for.
Also here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NAo1dkI7pYYiPLVu64UceKRyMoFEG9Bi
and a few more here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UHNQUWoTm_6BfuUoB67ZWn0dyJ9Kjhe_
https://eeleach.blog/2012/01/17/the-wonders-of-gallica-some-troubadour-and-trouvere-sources/
a page with links to all the troubadour and trouvere mss online as of 2012
an even better page with even more links to online mss; the above troub/trouv, plus cantigas, plus carmina burana, and more!
https://www.medievalmusicbesalu.com/medieval-music-library-online/
Some Aquitainian manuscripts online:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6000946s.image
- Bibliothek Nat'l Fr. ms. 1139, an Aquitainian ms. (this one's tricky: you'll need to read books 1st)
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52502489w/
- Bibliothek Nat'l Fr. ms. 3719, an Aquitainian ms.
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90660885/f154.item
- Bibliothek Nat'l Fr. ms. 3549, an Aquitainian ms., starting on f.149, with the music
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_36881_#
- British Lib. additional 36881, an Aquitainian ms. (this one is the easiest to read)
Fiber Arts:
Titled "Viking Resources for the Re-enactor," Thora has various Viking-era related articles and bibliographies that are very useful, especially relating to textiles.
Phaila does tablet weaving, loom weaving, sprang, braiding, nalbinding, spinning, dyeing -- the works. Especially great are her explanation papers on various textile arts.
Food and Cookery:
Doc's Medieval Cookery which includes his links to online cookbooks by country and date.
recipes from Cariadoc's Miscellany
also one of my favorites, the 13th century anonymous Andalusian cookbook
Gardening:
Online rose shopping:
Also see the list of rose sellers linked under the Antique Roses article on my Plants and Gardening page.