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Latin Manuscript Books before 1600: A Bibliography of the Printed Catalogues of Extant Collections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

Paul Oskar Kristeller*
Affiliation:
Columbia University

Extract

The study of Latin manuscripts has been of vital importance not only to the student of classical and patristic literature but also to every serious scholar interested in the literature, theology, philosophy and science of the Middle Ages and of the Renaissance. In this field, the manuscripts contain not merely new variants of well-known texts but an often unsuspected amount of new textual material that never got into print but often had as wide a circulation and importance as some of the printed works. This material is by no means easily accessible. If a collection of manuscripts has no printed catalogue, there is no way of investigating its content except by working on the spot. On the other hand, printed catalogues, when available, permit the location of pertinent material from a distance, and hence are a definite scholarly aid and desideratum. Since even the printed catalogues are often inadequate and sometimes rare, it has seemed useful to compile an annotated bibliography of these catalogues, which would serve as a guide to medievalists and Renaissance scholars in general, and in particular to the contributors to the project of ‘Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries,’ which has been undertaken by a group of scholars under the auspices of several learned societies. The present bibliography was originally compiled for the purposes of that project, and it has been decided to print it, since previous bibliographies of a similar nature were either conceived along narrower lines, like Weinberger's, or were inaccurate, like Richardson's.

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Copyright © 1948 by Cosmopolitan Science & Art Service Co., Inc. 

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References

1 A bibliography of the old inventories of Medieval and Renaissance libraries would be an important task all by itself but is beyond the scope of this bibliography, which is intended to serve as a guide to extant manuscripts according to their content. Latin Manuscripts: Bibliography of Extant Collections Google Scholar

2 CSmH: Huntington Library, San Marino, Cal. CtY: Yale University. DCU: Catholic University, Washington. DLC: Library of Congress. DSG: Army Medical Library, Washington. ICJ: John Crerar Library, Chicago. ICN: Newberry Library, Chicago. ICU: University of Chicago. IU: University of Illinois, Urbana. MB: Boston Public Library. MH: Harvard University. MiU: University of Michigan. MnU: University of Minnesota. NIC: Cornell University. NN: New York Public Library. NNC: Columbia University. NNFr: Frick Art Reference Library, New York. NNG: General Theological Seminary, New York. NNGr: Grolier Club, New York. NNM: American Museum of Natural History, New York. NNMM: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. NNN: New York Academy of Medicine. NNU: New York University. NNUT: Union Theological Seminary, New York. NjP: Princeton Universiry. NjPT: Princeton Theological Seminary. OCI: Cleveland Public Library. OCU: University of Cincinnati. PP: Free Library, Philadelphia. PPAP: American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. PU: University of Pennsylvania. RPB: Brown University.Google Scholar