One of the most frequently consulted resources in the Reading Room of
The Pierpont Morgan Library is a set of binders containing detailed
descriptions of the collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.
The descriptions, compiled by several generations of curators, often
contain information not available elsewhere, such as complete lists of
texts and illustrations within individual manuscripts, long discursive
notes on provenance, binding, etc., and lengthy bibliographies. Books
and articles that have come to the curators' attention since 1989 are
cited in separate bibliographies, which are updated regularly.
For many years, this documentation was accessible only in paper form.
Now, as part of a six-year, three-million-dollar project to make
scholarly information on all the Library's holdings freely available on
the Web, users of CORSAIR, the Library's comprehensive online
collections catalog, can view and print electronic versions of the
descriptions and bibliographies. The material, which is linked to
CORSAIR records for individual manuscripts, has been scanned and
converted into PDF files to preserve the historical layers of
scholarship evident in the annotations and additions.
To view a sample description, visit the URL below and follow the
links:
http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/msdescr/BBM0069.htm
For more information on this resource, visit:
http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/msdescr/msdescriptions.htm
Additional online research resources, including guides to the
collections for researchers, finding aids for archival collections, and
descriptions and images of individual folios (a joint project of the
Index of Christian Art and the Library) will soon become available
through CORSAIR.
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