Catalogues of secondary literature about manuscripts

BIBLIOTHECA NEERLANDICA MANUSCRIPTA
DescriptionSearchable online database giving access to c. 8,600 descriptions of manuscripts from the medieval Low Countries. See the HUMBUL catalogue record for further details.
Cataloguing formatConversion to electronic form of the existing documentation system on Dutch Medieval manuscripts.
Length of projectUpdate of software launched in October 1997
Responsible institutionsUniversiteitsbibliotheek Leiden
Contact detailsWebsite: http://www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/bnm/

BIBMAN
DescriptionBibliography of secondary literature on manuscripts written in the Latin alphabet and held by Italian libraries. Some 40 libraries participate in the project, resulting to date in over 11,000 records, citing c. 50,000 manuscripts and c. 70.000 citations. See the HUMBUL catalogue record for further details.
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Responsible institutionsIstituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche ICCU), Rome
Contact detailsWebsite: http://www.iccu.sbn.it/genera.jsp?s=110&l=it#bibman; E-mail: Massimo Menna, Chief of the Laboratorio per la documentazione e la catalogazione del manoscritto, m.menna@iccu.sbn.it

MANUSCRIPT STUDIES & PALAEOGRAPHY COLLECTION, SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
DescriptionCollection of secondary literature on Western medieval manuscripts and palaeography, including a large collection of manuscript facsimiles and manuscript catalogues, c. 18,000 titles. All records can be searched in the Senate House Library online catalogue.
Cataloguing formatMARC21
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Contact detailsWebsite: http://www.ull.ac.uk/subjects/guides/palaeography.shtml (then 'Catalogue', 'Menu' for the search screen); E-mail: Mura Ghosh, Manuscript Studies Librarian, mghosh@shl.lon.ac.uk

MENESTREL: médiévistes sur l'internet sources travaux références en ligne
DescriptionOnline service promoting the development of web-based european resources for the study of the Middle Ages. It makes available a list of core electronic resources in the field of medieval studies and other resources, mainly French.
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Responsible institutionsÉcole Nationale des Charters; Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes
Contact detailsWebsite: http://web.ccr.jussieu.fr/urfist/mediev.htm; E-mail: Marc Smith, École Nationale des Charters, msmith@enc.sorbonne.fr; Elisabeth Lalou, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, lalou@irht.cnrs.fr

UNIVERSIDAD ALICANTE
DescriptionEarly catalogues with links to digital images and to full text.
Cataloguing formatEncoded in XML
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