Online searchable image database of medieval manuscript illuminations from the collections of French municipal libraries containing over 14,000 images accompanied by brief manuscript descriptions. See the HUMBUL catalogue record for further details.
Cataloguing format
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Length of project
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Responsible institutions
Direction du livre et de la lecture (CNRS); Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (CNRS); Ministère de la culture
Database of illuminated manuscripts in libraries in France; gives access to some 100,000 digitised images, accessible through text as well as iconography.
Cataloguing format
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Length of project
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Responsible institutions
Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (IRHT)
Contact details
Source: Ilisabeth Lalou, ‘Une base de donnies sur les manuscrits enluminis des bibliothhques: Collaboration entre chercheurs et bibliothicaires’, in: BBF 46 (2001), pp. 38-42. Website: http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/ressources/bdd.htm
LIBER FLORIDUS
Description
Collaborative project to provide access to all the digital images of the medieval manuscript illuminations held in the higher education libraries in France. At present, only the illuminated manuscripts of the Bibliothèques Mazarine and Sainte-Geneviève have been loaded into the database amounting to some 1,600 manuscripts and 31,000 images.See the HUMBUL catalogue record for further details.
Cataloguing format
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Length of project
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Responsible institutions
Higher education libraries; Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (CNRS); Centre Informatique National de l'Enseignement Supérieur; Ministère de l'éducation nationale
CGMBPF project: Retrospective conversion of the General Catalogue of Manuscripts held in French Public Libraries
Description
Project to convert 114 printed catalogues of manuscripts, published between 1849 and 1993 (about 180,000 records).
Cataloguing format
XML/EAD
Length of project
January 2005 - summer of 2007
Responsible institutions
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication; Ministère de l’Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche; Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement supérieur; Bibliothèque nationale de France (Project management).
Manuscript database providing free access to over 27,000 descriptive records of German medieval manuscripts. See the HUMBUL catalogue record for further details.
National census project with the aim to assist the preservation and knowledge of manuscript materials held in Italian collections. There are two software developments, both distributed free of charge to libraries and other institutions that agree to send their data periodically to ICCU: MANUS, for cataloguing manuscript materials held in Italian public libraries and BibMan (see section 5 below) for compiling a database for secondary literature on manuscripts.
Cataloguing format
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Length of project
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Responsible institutions
Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche (ICCU). ICCU has established and distributed standards for the bibliographical documentation and cataloguing of manuscript books in Italian libraries, in cooperation with libraries and universities.
Portal which provides access to descriptions and photographs of all medieval manuscripts in Dutch collections, public and private. The website also is a source for more information on Dutch medieval books and study aids.
Cataloguing format
Dublin Core eXtended.
Length of project
Now an operational service, with ongoing efforts to expand and enhance.
Responsible institutions
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the university libraries of Leiden, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Groningen, and the Atheneumbibliotheek Deventer.
National union catalogue, combining printed material with manuscripts, c. 2750 manuscrip records from different collections held in the Rare Books Department. They are “library manuscripts” not archival ones, i.e. they are mostly manuscript books from 12th to 20th century.
Cataloguing format
UNIMARC; The cataloguing is very detailed and numerous access points are available (language, country, date, scriptorium, author, title, former owners, etc.).
