For a different perspective on Beowulf, one might want to read Meditating on Men and Monsters: A Reconsideration of the Thematic Unity of the Beowulf Manuscript by Kathryn Powell, published in the Review of English Studies, 2006 57(228):1-15.
To quote the website, the MANCASS C11 Database Project is "an inventory of script and spellings in eleventh-century English." http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/mancass/data/index.htm
The Stanford University Libraries and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, are working together to publish manuscripts of the Parker Library on the web. A public prototype has been set up at http://parkerweb.stanford.edu/.
