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.
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
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Length of project
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Responsible institutions
Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine
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
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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.
