Facsimiles of Medieval Manuscripts and Incunabula in UNC's Library Holdings

by Britt Mize for the Carolina Association for Medieval Studies


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Introduction

This page is a rough working version of a site that will list facsimiles of medieval manuscripts and of incunabula held by the library system of UNC-Chapel Hill. The project is coordinated and the work done by Britt Mize. It is undertaken through the Carolina Association for Medieval Studies for the university community at large, and it is intended to be published on the website of the Carolina Association for Medieval Studies for public use.

The target materials are defined as those produced between the years 300 and 1500 in languages used in Europe or in the cultures with which European peoples were in some systematic contact during that time period. Thus, for example, along with facsimiles of manuscripts containing medieval German, Latin, Irish, English, etc., manuscript facsimiles cont! aining Arabic and Syriac are listed, but facsimiles of manuscripts containing only Hindi or Chinese are not.

I should emphasize that this is a listing of facsimiles of manuscripts and incunabula, not of manuscripts or incunabula themselves. UNC's Rare Book Collection does hold incunabula and medieval manuscripts, but they are not listed here.

The present formatting is for the purposes of data organization only and does not approximate the projected appearance or structure of the finished site. The listings themselves contain many queries signalling incomplete information, and the final section of the list is a collection of references that lack enough information so as to be impossible to list without detailed examination in the later stages of the project.

For now, the primary organizational principle is language. Any facsimile that I know to contain more than one language has multiple identical listings, one for each language it contains. Within each language grouping, items are organized alphabetically by city first, then by library, and finally by shelfmark. Links included with the individual listings connect the user to the UNC Libraries' online catalog records for those items. These catalog records vary greatly in quality and quantity of information, and in some cases, there is no catalog record at all (in which case there is no link).

The finished version of the site will allow users to select whether they wish to see the listing organized by language first, or by city first. Most scholars will probably consider the city-library-shelfmark listing the most useful primary level of organization, ! but language-first organization can also be useful for surveying what the library system has in a particular language, especially those languages that have relatively few listings (such as Irish, Welsh, or Arabic).

The chief method of data collection is a series of keyword searches using the UNC online library catalog. This method has been supplemented by the addition of facsimiles I know about from other sources, such as bibliographies.

Britt Mize


Contents:

List of searches so far | Arabic | Bulgarian | Church Slavic | Dut! ch | English | Flemish | French | German | Greek | Hebrew | Hungarian | Irish | Italian | Kipchak | Latin | Lombard | Norse | Persian | Russian | Spanish | Syriac | Welsh | Yiddish | Problems needing special attention

 


 

Keyword search completed:                    &nb! sp;   No. of hits produced:
anglo-saxon and facsimile                                        30
anglo-saxon and facsimiles                                      21
arabic and facsimile                                                 21
arabic and facsimiles        &n! bsp;                                        20
cornish and facsimile ............................................2
early english manuscripts in facsimile                          26
early icelandic manuscripts in facsimile                      19
facsimile series of the works of geoffrey chaucer        4
fa
csimiles in collotype of irish                 &nbs! p;                    1
15th cent and facsimile                                              13
german and facsimile.....................................270
gr
eek and facsimile                                                    74
greek and facsimiles           &n! bsp;                                        91
hebrew and facsimile                                                  19
hebrew and facsimiles                                                34
icelandic and facsimile           ! ;                                     21
icelandic and facsimiles                                              19
illuminated manuscripts of the middle ages                  5
incunabules poeticos castellanos                                 3
irish and facsimile     &! nbsp;                                                 26
irish and facsimiles                                                    19
islandica                                                       &! nbsp;             79
italian and facsimile                                                   141
italian and facsimiles                                                  140
manuscripta islandica                                  &n! bsp;               7
medieval and facsimile                                              108
medieval and facsimiles                                             191
medieval drama facsimiles                                         &nbs! p; 8
middle and facsimile                                                   63
middle and facsimiles                                                121
norse and facsimile                                                  ! ;    19
norse and facsimiles                                                     24
old and facsimile                                                       138
old and facsimiles                                      &nbs! p;              123
syriac and facsimile                                                     6
syriac and facsimiles                                                   5
welsh and facsimile                                !                       5
welsh and facsimiles                                                    3

Current search: "german and facsimilies" complete through "Bible. O.T. Psalms. Greek. 1960. Psalterium Graeco-Latinum: Codex Basiliensis A.VII.3. Umbrae codicum occidentalium; 5. Amsterdam:
North-Holland Pub. Co., 1960.", number 200 of 320 hits.
 

 
 
 
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Arabic
Arabic
Arabic
Arabic

Bulgarian
Bulgarian
Bulga! rian
Bulgarian
Church Slavic
Church Slavic
Church Slavic
Church Slavic
Dutch
Dutch !
Dutch
Dutch
! English English English English
Flemish
Flemish
Flemish
Flemish
French French French French
German German German German
Greek !
Greek
Greek
Greek
Hebrew
Hebrew
Hebrew
Hebrew
Hungarian
Hungarian
Hungarian
Hungarian

Irish
Irish
Irish
Irish

Italian Italian Italian Italian