Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Miniature of St. Jerome,
from an Anglo-Flemish Book of Hours (ca. 1470) for Sarum Use.

The Department of Special Collections currently possesses some forty bound manuscript codices that may be dated prior to 1600. Most of these have been described in James A. Corbett, A Catalogue of the Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts of the University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, 1978).

In addition to bound manuscripts are several dozen miscellaneous single sheets and manuscripts fragments that may likewise be dated to the Middle Ages or Renaissance. Many of the biblical, liturgical and devotional fragments are described in the partial listing below, while others, mainly French charters, await cataloging.

• Pre-1600 Bound Manuscripts

• Partial Listing of Pre-1600 Single-Sheet Manuscripts and Manuscripts Fragments

A partial inventory of bound manuscripts of European origin (including England) that may be dated between 1600 and 1800 appears in the Early Modern manuscripts section.