Manuscripts

Complete List
• Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
  
  Consists of approximately 20,000 documents of general correspondence, including incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures, drafts of speeches, and notes and printed material from the 1850s through Lincoln's presidential years, 1860-65. ... []
• Access to the Middle Ages: Medieval Manuscripts in Facsimile
  
  An introduction to medieval manuscripts and to medieval scripts through a selection of modern facsimile reproductions available in the University of Notre Dame Libraries. ... []
• Archivo Electrónico Ricardo Flores Magón
  
  Cipriano Ricardo Flores Magón[1] (September 16, 1874 – November 21, 1922) a noted Mexican anarchist and social reform activist, was one of the major thinkers of the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican revolutionary movement in the Partido Liberal Mexicano. ... []
• Archivum Secretum Vaticanum, Reg. Vat.
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROMs in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
  Call Number: MEDIN UNIV Electronic BX 850 .R44 1999
  Coverage: reg.vat.1-reg.vat.523
  JPEG images of papal letters as recorded in the Secret Vatican Archives, Reg. Vat. collection.
• British Literary Manuscripts Online
  
  Facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. Searching is based on tags and descriptive text associated with each manuscript. Images of the complete manuscript can be viewed, manipulated and navigated on screen. Please note that the text of the manuscripts themselves is not searchable. ... []
• CANTUS
  
  Indices of chants in selected manuscripts and early printed sources of the Liturgical Office.
• Carolingian culture at Reichenau and St. Gall
  
  This site presents digital versions of two of the gems surviving from the monasteries of Reichenau and St. Gall. One is the unique architectural drawing known as the Plan of St. Gall. The other is the extensive ninth-century library collections of the two monasteries, identifiable by their distinctive script. ... []
• Catalogue of digitized medieval manuscripts
  
  Site designed to enable users to find fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the web.
• Center for Jewish History digital collections
  
  Searchable database of the digital collections of the Center for Jewish History in New York City, a partnership of the American Jewish Historical Society, the Leo Baeck Institute, the Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Materials include finding aids, images, audio files of interviews, maps and plans, plus a wide variety of documents including books, legal papers, memoirs and scrapbooks. ... []
• Chaucer : the general prologue on CD-ROM
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1868.P8 S65 2000
  "Contains transcripts, descriptions, and images of all 53 fifteenth-century manuscripts and early printed editions of The General Prologue. The texts of witnesses may be compared through full word-by-word collations in both original spelling and regularized form. Spelling databases permit the spelling of every grammatical form of each word to be examined in any manuscript, or across all manuscripts, for some 300,000 words in total. Sophisticated search tools, which make full use of SGML encoding, allow retrieval of words, phrases, and many textual features."--Container. ... []
• Concilios provinciales mexicanos epoca colonial /
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic BX 1428.3 .C66 2004
• Dead Sea scrolls electronic library
  
  Mode of access: Product has been loaded on the Theology Reference Collection CD station (12th floor)
  Call Number: HESB THREF Electronic BM 487 .A05 2006 [on Windows XP -- CD station]
  "... provides the user with a comprehensive tool for the study of the non-biblical texts from the Judean Desert (the "Dead Sea Scrolls") offering transcriptions (texts), translations, images, an inventory, and software for carrying out searches and viewing the images."--User manual, p. 6. ... []
• Digital Domesday Book
  
  Mode of access: Available only from Hesburgh Library public access computers. Path in XP: Start/Library and Information Resources/All Titles A-Z/Digital Domesday.
  Call Number: LIBNT XP Electronic DA 190 .D7 D55 2002
  Includes all 888 folios from the Great and Little Domesday; the Alecto line-by-line translations, matched to the original text; the Alecto indexes of people and of places, including map references; the Farley transcription of 1783; a general introduction; the Alecto County Edition introductions to each Domesday county; 16 special studies on different aspects of medieval life; a glossary and a comprehensive bibliography. ... []
• Digital Library of the Caribbean
  
  The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections. ... []
• Directorio Web de Archivos Iberoamericanos
  
  Este Directorio Web de Archivos permite consultar de manera rápida y sencilla un amplio listado de aquellos archivos iberoamericanos que disponen de una pagina web- propia o alojada en otra institución- en la que ofrezcan información relacionada con sus fondos y/o con los servicios que presta el archivo. Los archivos históricos de cada país están organizados por categorías según su dependencia administrativa o la composición de sus fondos. ... []
• El Portal de Archivos Españoles
  
  El Portal de Archivos Españoles es un proyecto del Ministerio de Cultura destinado a la difusión en Internet del Patrimonio Histórico Documental Español conservado en su red de centros.Como proyecto abierto y dinámico sirve de marco de difusión para otros proyectos archivísticos de naturaleza pública o privada, previamente establecido un marco de cooperación con el Ministerio de Cultura. PARES ofrece un acceso libre y gratuito, no solo al investigador, sino también a cualquier ciudadano interesado en acceder a los documentos con imágenes digitalizadas de los Archivos Españoles. ... []
• Electronic Beowulf
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROMs in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1580 .K47 1999
  Contains an image-based edition of Beowulf, the greatest Old English poem surviving in the British Library in a composite codex known as Cotton Ms. Vitellius A. xv. ... []
• Emily Dickinson's correspondences
  
  "This XML-based archive brings together seventy-four poems and letters from Emily's correspondence with her sister-in-law and primary confidante, Susan Dickinson. Each text is presented with a digitized scan of the holograph manuscript."--Home page. ... []
• Exeter anthology of old English poetry
  
  Mode of access: DVD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1490 .A2 M853 2006
  Contains facsimile pages of the complete manuscript of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501 (the "Exeter Book") with Bernard J. Muir's complete critical edition (rev. 2nd ed.). Allows comparison of original manuscript and transcripts and access to hyperlinked commentaries and bibliographies. Animated video clip recounts history of the manuscript. ... []
• Frederick Douglass papers at the Library of Congress
  
  The first release of the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress contains approximately 2,000 items relating to Douglass's life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant. The papers span the years 1841-1964, with the bulk of the material from 1862-1895. The collection also contains the writings of some of Douglass's contemporaries such as Henry Ward Beecher, Ida B. Wells, Gerrit Smith, and Horace Greeley. Subjects covered in the collection include politics, emancipation, racial prejudice, women's suffrage, and prison reform. ... []
• Hartlib papers
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROMs in Reserve Book Room.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic DA 378 .H3 A3 2002
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic DA 378 .H3 A3 1995
  "... one of the great collections relating to the origins and development of modern western thought. Samuel Hartlib occupies a unique place in the intellectual history of seventeenth century England. Living in London during the ferment of the Civil War and the Commonwealth, his papers - correspondence, working papers, treatises and diaries by himself and a multitude of collaborators - give unparalleled access to one of the most dramatic periods in Europe's political and intellectual history."--Publisher's description. ... []
• Hemeroteca digital (Madrid)
  
  La “Biblioteca Digital Hispánica”, que tiene como objetivo la consulta y difusión pública a través de Internet del Patrimonio Bibliográfico Español conservado en la Biblioteca Nacional de Espana. ... []
• International Dunhuang Project
  
  Provides information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road. ... []
• ISOS -- Meamraim Páipéar Ríomhaire -- Irish Script on Screen.
  
  Digital images of Irish manuscripts in various collections. A project of the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies. ... []
• Juilliard manuscript collection
  
  A collection of autograph and working manuscripts, sketches, engraver's proofs and first editions. The collection comprises 138 items, including printed editions with extensive composer markings. ... []
• Julian Samora Library and Archives Institute for Latino Studies
  
  The Julian Samora Library at the Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame collects, preserves, and provides access to rare books, manuscripts, personal papers, archives, and oral histories related to the Latino experience in the United States with a particular focus on the Midwest. ... []
• Letras y folios: fuentes documentales para la historia colonial del Nuevo Reino de Granada
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic F 2251 .L48 2002
  Contains digital reproductions of four works published about the colonial history of Colombia. Includes digitized archival and historical documents of the New Kingdom of Granada, Cauca, Rionegro, Marinilla, and Boyaca. ... []
• Librairie des ducs de Bourgogne
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROMs in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
  Call Number: MEDIN 715 Electronic Z 6621 .B535 B53 2001
  Coverage: v.1-v.2
  Each CD-ROM contains two complementary databases: a textual database and an image bank. The textual database consists of all the descriptive notes of the manuscripts. The image bank comprises the reproductions of all illustrations. In addition, there is a series of background articles relating to the history of the Burgundy Library, important persons, or stylistic trends. ... []
• Life of Saint Wilfrid by Edmer
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
  Call Number: MEDIN 715 Electronic BX 4700 .W5 E3413 1998a
  "This is an electronic edition of Edmer's twelfth century Vita Sancti Wilfridi. It includes a full photographic facsimile of a little known witness from the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery in Victoria, Australia -- MS Crouch 10. It considers all known manuscript witnesses in its apparatus and includes a full study of the printed tradition in its introduction and commentary ..."--Publisher's description. ... []
• Manuscript women's letters and diaries
  
  "... brings together 100,000 pages [when complete] of the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images of the original manuscripts, extensively indexed and online for the first time."--Home page. ... []
• Medieval microfilms & facsimiles database
  
  Database identifying and locating the microfilms and facsimiles available at Notre Dame for medieval manuscripts.
• Music Library Letters Database
  
  Includes unique letters from/to composers and musical performers, acquired by the Gilmore Music Library through purchase and gift. The collection constitutes of manuscript letters from many of the greatest names of the classical music canon such as Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, and Tchaikovsky as well as famed American composers like Elliott Carter, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, and many others. ... []
• PARES
  
  Searchable database created by the Spanish Ministry of Culture providing access to descriptions of national and provinicial archived documents, with links to digitized images where available. ... []
• Parker Library on the web
  
  An interactive, web-based workspace designed to support use and study of the manuscripts in the historic Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The Parker Library's holdings of Old English texts accounts for nearly a quarter of all extant manuscripts in Anglo-Saxon, including the earliest copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c. 890), the Old English Bede and King Alfred's translation of Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care. Also contains one of the finest copies of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. ... []
• Piers Plowman electronic archive
  
  Call Number: HESB RES PR 2015 .P54 2000
  "The long-range goal of the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive is the creation of a multi-level, hyper-textually linked electronic archive of the textual tradition of all three versions of the fourteenth-century allegorical dream vision Piers Plowman."--1994 Prospectus: Archive Goals. ... []
• Projeto resgate
  
  Full-text access to thousands of historical documents related to Brazil, particularly its colonial period.
• Registra Vaticana (see Archivum Secretum Vaticanum, Reg. Vat.)
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROMs in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
  JPEG images of papal letters as recorded in the Secret Vatican Archives, Reg. Vat. collection.
• Richard O'Melia Collection on U.S. Congressional Investigation of Communism and Subversive Activities, 1918 - 1956
  
  This site is intended to serve as a browsing index for the manuscript collection, which is located in the Hesburgh Library
• Scientific and medical writing in Old and Middle English
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 231 .V654 2000
  Provides information on more than 8,500 texts from the earliest significant body of technical and learned writing in English. Features citations to Old and Middle English manuscripts found in American and British museums and libraries. ... []
• Slavery and manumission manuscripts of Timbuktu
  
  "From the Bibliotheque Commemorative Mama Haidara in Timbuktu, Mali, a collection of [209] 19th century manuscripts relating to slavery and manumission in Timbuktu. The materials, in Arabic, provide documentation on Africans in slavery in Muslim societies." Includes search engine which allows subject browsing and keyword and document number searching. ... []
• Sources: A National Library of Ireland Database for Irish Research
  
  Catalog records for Irish manuscripts and for articles in Irish periodicals. This is a digital database of the records of the manuscripts in the National Libray as well as Irish manuscripts in other libraries. There are also indexed records of articles frorm over 150 Irish periodicals up to 1969. The database is a digital project based on the two bibliographies compiled by the National Library under Richard J. Hayes, "Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation" (1965, supplement 1975), and "Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation: Articles in Irish Periodicals" (1970). ... []
• St. Patrick's Confessio
  
  A HyperStack (hypertext stack) project that incorporates the text of Saint Patrick's Confessio in high-resolution scans of all extant manuscript testimonies, along with manuscript descriptions and, in the form of a meta-edition, reproductions of the most relevant editions that have been published. Supporting material includes a bibliography and a number of articles. ... []
• State papers online : the government of Britain, 1509-1714
  
  Facsimiles of the manuscript papers of the Secretary of State from 1509 to 1714. Includes a fully searchable set of Calendars, linked to manuscript facsimiles, with essays by historians of the period. ... []
• Theodore psalter
  
  Digital version of illuminated liturgical manuscript (BL Add. 19352) from the Byzantine Empire, known as the Theodore psalter; the digital version features full-color magnified views of all pages, searchable text in original Greek and in English translation, and scholarly essays. ... []
• Thesaurus diplomaticus
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows 95 -- CD Station" computer.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic CD 151 .T547 1997
  "Over 6,000 charters and 13,000 analysed documents ... for studying the medieval history of Western Europe."--Publisher's website.
• Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae
  
  A thesaurus providing access to digital editions of texts in Early and Medieval Irish, including texts in the Franciscan A Manuscripts (at UCD), and links to digital copies of manuscripts where available. This is a project of the School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics at University College Dublin. ... []
• Tres riches heures du duc de Berry
  
  "In 1411 Jean de Berry asked the three Limbourg brothers to create this book of hours (a prayer book for the laity), which contains more than 130 miniatures. Offering a full facsimile of the manuscript, this CD-ROM allows you to turn the pages, enlarge and explore the images, conduct searches using the indexes and consult a commentary for each miniature in French, English or German."--Container. ... []
• Vernon manuscript (see Facsimile edition of the Vernon manuscript)
  
  Provides access to over 350 Middle English texts, among them "Piers Plowman", "The Ancrene Riwle", "The South English Legendary", "The Prick of Conscience", and " The Miracles of the Virgin". Contains a full facsimile with images of each page of the manuscript, visible at high magnification, and a complete 'live' transcription of the text with hyperlinks allowing for powerful global searches across the entire text. ... []
• Virginia Woolf
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 6045 .O72 1997
  "The complete works of Virginia Woolf including variant and hard-to-find editions. Over 12,000 manuscript images from the Henry W and Albert A. Berg Collection at the New York Public Library and the Monks House Papers at the University of Sussex"--Portfolio. ... []
• Walt Whitman
  
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PS 3200 .F97 1997
  Includes full text of New York University Press' scholarly ed. of The collected writings of Walt Whitman, a large selection of manuscripts from the Library of Congress' Feinberg and Thomas B. Harned collections, New York Public Library's Oscar Lion and Berg collections, facsimiles of editions of Leaves of grass published during Whitman's lifetime, Two rivulets, Drum taps, Sequel to drum taps, over 100 images of Whitman, an archival recording of Whitman's voice, and contemporary reviews of Whitmans's work. ... []
• Wheel of memory : Hereford Mappamundi
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute: Standalone workstation.
  Call Number: MEDIN GEN Electronic G 3201 .S3 2001 .K4
  An interactive exploration of the Hereford Mappa Mundi, a late thirteenth-century world map that presents, in over one thousand texts and images, a panoramic view of the intellectual and conceptual framework of the Middle Ages. ... []
• Wife of Bath's prologue
  
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1868 .W654 R63 1996
  Provides a transcription of all 58 15th-century witnesses to The wife of Bath's prologue, with word-by-word collation of the witnesses, digital images of all pages transcribed, transcriptions of glosses, descriptions of the witnesses, and spelling databases. ... []