National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections

Access: Publicly available resource

Description: NUCMC is a database of over 500,000 records describing archival and manuscript collections in research libraries, state and federal agencies, museums, and historical societies throughout the world.

Also try:

• British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts - search one of the richest collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the world.
• British Library Manuscripts online catalogue - search the British Library's collection of Western manuscripts, covering handwritten documents of all kinds from pre-Christian, Classical, medieval and modern times.
• Codices.ch - search the Manuscript Library of Switzerland.
• CORSAIR - search the collection from The Pierpont Morgan Library spaning some ten centuries of Western illumination, and containing manuscripts from all the major schools, including some of the great masterpieces of medieval manuscript art.
• Digital Scriptorium - an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts.
• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University - contains high resolution digital images from manuscripts which were selected as major treasures from institutions associated with the University of Oxford.
• Enluminures - propose la consultation gratuite de plus de 80,000 images, sous forme de vignette et de plein écran, reproductions numériques des enluminures et éléments de décor de plus de 4,000 manuscrits médiévaux conservés dans une centaine de bibliothèques municipales françaises.
• Manuscripta Mediaevalia - Das Handschriftenforum Manuscripta Mediaevalia bietet Ihnen Informationen zu über 60.000 Handschriften im deutschsprachigen Raum und darüber hinaus.
• Manuscriptorium - search detailed information on historical book resources with links to their digital copies.
• Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections (MMDC)- a database containing short, uniform descriptions and photographs of all medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands (about 6000 items). The database includes medieval western manuscripts written in Latin script and produced up to c. 1550 held in libraries, museums and archives, as well as the collections of monastic orders and some other private institutions that are open to researchers.
• Online guide to mediaeval manuscripts in Wallonia - Brussels - contains descriptions of the medieval manuscripts in 37 collections in Wallonia and Brussels, both illuminated and not illuminated.

Subject(s):
History, Genealogy & Archives
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