All manuscript description have been digitized the inventory in the collection guide Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscripta contains links to the scans in Digital Special Collections. The BNM can also be consulted via the internet. There are three important files: authors and textual headwords scribes and owners scriptoriums and libraries. The textual, codicological and book-historical data of these descriptions have been noted down on cards and arranged in several card indexes. The manuscript descriptions - kept in folders and boxes that are placed in two bookcases (approximately 8 metres) - are arranged by location and shelfmark. The documentation comprises The textual and codicological data In Room 211 (second floor, entrance 5, go right) you can use the Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscripta: documentation on Middle Dutch manuscripts kept world wide.īNM collects and makes available information about Middle Dutch texts and their authors, about the persons involved in the production of the manuscripts containing those texts, and about the owners from the Middle Ages up to the present.
Catalogue Collectif de France - manuscipts and archives in other French libraries includes repertory with information about 5000 libraries (see also À propos CCfr).BnF Archives et manuscrits - manuscripts and archives in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.CERL Manuscripts Expert Group (Europa) - the National Backgrounds inform per country about the major manuscripts and archives collections and the holding institutions.Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek - special collections.Groningen, Universiteitsbibliotheek - special collections.Den Haag, Letterkundig Museum - manuscripts and letters from Dutch literary authors and publishing houses (Dutch).Den Haag, Koninklijk Bibliotheek - special collections.Amsterdam, Bibliotheek Universiteit van Amsterdam - special collections.After requesting the micro forms in the Special Collections Reading Room use one of the readers in Room 211 to consult them. There is an alphabetic index on location and shelfmark. In Room 211 (second floor, entrance 5, go right) you can find a card file accessing micro forms of about 1700 handschriften kept in other institutions. For an overview see the subject guide Manuscripts, archives and letters: further information. In the Special Collections Reading Room (second floor, entrance 4, go left) you can use: palaeographical atlases (DOUSA 86) and printed facsimile’s of medieval manuscripts kept outside Leiden, shelved according to content, cultural region (DOUSA 87) and illumination (DOUSA 88). For a survey of the reference library’s content see the subject guide Manuscripts, archives and letters: further information. The LCC-shelfmarks in the online catalogue and on the spine labels of the volumes differ from those of the Study Area (first floor), in that they begin with “II-4”.
The volumes are shelved according to the Library of Congress Classification.
manuscript catalogues classified by language or people (Z6605), by subject (Z6611), by region or country (Z6620) and by library (Z6621).journals, reference works, bibliographies.In the Special Collection Reference Library: Text at entrance 4 of the second floor (go right) you can find: