====== Catalogues of manuscripts covering specific subjects (by subject) ====== ===== LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS ===== ^PALME - REPERTOIRE DES MANUSCRITS LITTERAIRES FRANCAIS DU XXe SIECLE ^^ ^Description|National project with the aim to include all literary manuscripts, as well as personal papers and correspondence of authors active in the XXth century. Currently covering most of the territory except Paris.| ^Cataloguing format|INTERMARC Intigri, specific to the Bibliotheque Nationale de France; item level cataloguing| ^Length of project|In progress| ^Responsible institutions|funded by the Direction du Livre et de la lecture, Ministere de la Culture, France| ^Contact details|Hosted by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in its section OPALINE. Gerard Cohen, Chef de projet, e-mail: [[Gerard.cohen@culture.gouv.fr]]| ---- ===== MEDICAL MANUSCRIPTS ===== ^BIBLIOTHEHQUE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE DE MEDECINE, PARIS ^^ ^Description|Manual conversion of the published catalogue of manuscripts; c. 800 records.| ^Cataloguing format|Access database| ^Length of project|?| ^Responsible institutions|?| ^Contact details|[[http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/]] (then choose: ‘Catalogues’ and then ‘Manuscrits’; Contact: Henry Ferreira-Lopes, Conservateur, e-mail: [[henri.ferreira-lopez@bium.univ-paris5.fr]]| ---- ^WELLCOME LIBRARY, LONDON ^^ ^Description|The online catalogue of Western manuscripts and modern papers give access to medical and health-related archive material from antiquity to the present, including medical treatises and lecture notes, case books and diaries, ledgers and accounts, recipe books, laboratory notes and correspondence.| ^Cataloguing format|?| ^Length of project|?| ^Responsible institutions|Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine| ^Contact details|Website: [[http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTL038890.html]] (then choose: ‘Online catalogue of Western manuscripts and modern papers’; E-mail: [[arch+mss@wellcome.ac.uk]]| ---- ===== WOMEN'S MANUSCRIPTS ===== ^PERDITA ^^ ^Description|Focus on Early Modern Women’s Manuscript compilations. It will produce a database guide to about 400 manuscript compilations in collections around the world.| ^Cataloguing format|Descriptions are based in a slightly adapted form on the cataloguing system developed by the MASTER project.| ^Length of project|?| ^Responsible institutions|Collaborative project, funded by the Humanities Research Board (UK) and Nottingham Trent University, with participation i.a. by Yale and some British university libraries.| ^Contact details|[[http://human.ntu.ac.uk/perdita/]]| ---- ===== OTHER MANUSCRIPTS ===== ^COLLECTION ON PARCHMENTS, NATIONAL LIBRARY OF LITHUANIA ^^ ^Description|Electronic edition of Collection of materials on parchment. Includes brief descriptions of the documents and general information about the collection.| ^Cataloguing format|?| ^Length of project|?| ^Contact details|[[http://pergamentai.mch.mii.lt/pergamentai.en.htm]]; Contact person: Jolita Steponaitiene, Head of Rare Book and Manuscript Department, e-mail: [[jolita@lnb.lt]]| ---- ^KONGELIGE BIBLIOTEK, COPENHAGEN ^^ ^Description|Two separate databases: ‘Letter collection’ and ‘Manuscript acquisitions 1924- 1987’; c. 80.000 records| ^Cataloguing format|in-house format (not MARC); might be accessible via Z39.50| ^Length of project|?| ^Contact details|Mr Ivan Boserup; [[ivanboserup@gmail.com]]|