Edith,
Responding to your question #2:
You may direct your student to Bibliographies for the Study of Medieval Art,
compiled for an ARLIS/NA workshop at the 2004 conference and mounted on the
webpage of Princeton's University Index of Christian Art
http://ica.princeton.edu/reference/index.htm
Two of the four sections will lead to relevant material:
Mary Clare Altenhofen's Early Medieval Art(c. 500-c.1000), & my Later Medieval Art
(c.1000-c.1500).
Hope this helps.
Suzanna
Suzanna Simor, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Art and Music Library Services
Director, Queens College Art Center
Queens College/CUNY
Flushing, NY 11367
T 718 997-3771
F 718 997-3753
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:52:29 -0700
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Subject: Facsimiles of medieval Mss.
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I have a grad art history seminar studying the history of books and
libraries (up to about the 16th century). Since we don't happen to have an
extensive collection of such items (ha-ha) they're using facsimiles. We
have a number of nice ones in our collection but two issues have arisen:
1. Does anyone know of a way to identify facsimiles in a library catalog
other than tacking it on as a keyword? A lot of facsimiles actually use
that word in a searchable field, but I'm not sure that's guaranteed. Is
their some obscure cataloguer's trick that would help?
2. Does anyone know of freely accessible repositories of digital
facsimiles of such documents on the web? One student has his heart set on
doing an Islamic scientific, astronomical, or geographic text, and that's
proving particularly problematic. If I had a lot of time right now to go
web-surfing (which I don't) I might eventually find something. I'm one or
several of you can give me a short cut!
Edith L. Crowe | (408) 808-2037 | [log in to unmask]
Art & Humanities Librarian & Coordinator of Graduate Instruction
San Jose State University Library (http://www.sjlibrary.org)
Corresponding Secretary of the Mythopoeic Society (http://www.mythsoc.org)
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