Arizona Center for Medieval
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Phone: (480) 965-5900
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Dumbarton
Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies
http://www.doaks.org
Director: Alice-Mary Talbot
1703 32nd St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20007
Phone: 202-339-6940
Byzantine@doaks.org
Number of staff working in medieval departments: 11
Staff: Deborah Brown
Stewart, Librarian, Byzantine
Studies; Gudrun Bühl, Curator, Byzantine Collection; Cecile Morrisson, Advisor
for Byzantine Numismatics; John Nesbitt, Research Associate for Byzantine
Sigillography; Eustratios Papaioannou, Dumbarton Oaks Assistant Professor of Byzantine Studies at Brown University (joint
appointment with Dumbarton Oaks); Gunder Varinlioğlu, Byzantine Assistant Curator, Image
Collections and Fieldwork Archives; Marta Zlotnick,
Curatorial Assistant, Byzantine Collection; Stephen R. Zwirn, Assistant
Curator, Byzantine Collection;
John Hanson, Exhibition Associate; Joel Kalvesmaki, Editor in Byzantine
Studies; Polly King Evans,
Assistant to the Director of Byzantine Studies
Holdings: 130,000 books, rare book collection, photo and
fieldwork archive, Princeton Index of Christian Art, coins and seals (open to
qualified researchers only); collection of Byzantine art.
Circulation: This is a non-circulating library.
Cataloguing system: Brinkler/Library of Congress. Entire
catalogue is available on-line via OCLC and website. Published catalogs: G. K.
Hall, Dictionary Catalogue of the Byzantine Collection of the Dumbarton Oaks
Research Library.
Other areas of specialization: Pre-Columbian Studies; Studies in
Landscape Architecture.
Fellowships and Grants: 5-6 regular Fellowships (post-doctoral),
3-4 Junior Fellowships (for students working on dissertations), and 6-8 Summer
Fellowships are awarded for periods ranging from six weeks to a full academic
year. Fellows are expected to be in residence at Dumbarton Oaks and to devote
full time to their study projects. 4-6 Project Grants are also available, as are short-term pre-doctoral
residencies and one-month post-doctoral stipends.
Publications: Several series are published including Dumbarton
Oaks Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Texts, Dumbarton Oaks Collection Catalogs,
Byzantine Saints Lives in Translation, as well as various other titles in
Byzantine studies, and the annual Dumbarton Oaks Papers. Electronic resources,
such as the Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database of the 8th-10th Centuries and
on-line texts, are also available.
Symposia: “Trade and Markets in Byzantium”, May 2-4, 2008;
“Morea: The Land and its People in the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade”, May
1-3, 2009; “War in the Byzantine World”, early May 2010.
Colloquia: "From Enrico to Andrea Dandolo: Imitation,
Appropriation and Meaning at San Marco in Venice" April 28, 2007;
“Byzantine Literature: New Voices and Current Approaches”, November 9-10, 2007.
Public Lectures: Hugh Kennedy, “Islam and the Heritage of Late
Antiquity”, November 14, 2007;
Lectures/Seminars/Concerts: A busy calendar of events throughout
the year; see website for details.
Outreach: The Dumbarton Oaks museum has a docent program for
tours of the collections.
Folger
Shakespeare Library and Folger Institute
http://www.folger.edu
Director: Gail Kern Paster
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 E. Capitol St., S.E.
Washington, DC 20003-1094
Phone: 202-544-4600
Fax: 202-544-4623
institute@folger.edu
Librarian: Richard Kuhta.
Director, Research; Senior Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly;
Chair, Folger Institute: Barbara Mowat.
Executive Director, Folger Institute: Kathleen Lynch.
Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly: Gail Kern Paster.
Reading Room Supervisor: Elizabeth Walsh.
Reference Librarian: Georgiana Ziegler.
Holdings: The Folger Shakespeare Memorial Library is an
independent research facility with about 250,000 volumes on British and
European literary, cultural, political, religious, and social history from the
15th through the 18th centuries. The Shakespeare collection encompasses 79
first folios, 186 quartos, 7,000 later editions, hundreds of translations, and
a comprehensive collection of secondary sources. The Folger also holds one of
the largest collections of other early English books, with about 55,000 volumes
from the period 1475-1700 and 30,000 18th-century imprints.
Among 35,000 rare books from the Continent are 450 incunables, a 2,000-volume
Reformation collection, significant holdings in French and Dutch political
pamphlets, and a comprehensive collection of 16th-century Italian books. The
manuscript collection, which numbers 55,000 and is especially strong in early
correspondence and commonplace books, is extended by such microfilm holdings as
the states papers domestic from Edward VI through Charles I and the Cecil, Loseley,
Harleian, and Lansdowne papers. Materials from the 19th century include
theatrical records, promptbooks, playbills, illustrations, correspondence, and
scrapbooks.
Circulation: This is a noncirculating library.
Cataloging system: On-line public access available spring of 2000
through http://shakespeare.folger.edu
Financial aid (Folger Institute Seminars): Financial aid is
available to members of Folger Institute and Newberry Library consortium
schools only. The Folger consortium schools are Univ. of Alabama; American
Univ.; Amherst Coll.; Boston Univ.; Brown Univ.; Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ.
of New York; Catholic Univ. of America; Columbia Univ.; Univ. of Delaware; Duke
Univ.; Emory Univ.; Fordham Univ.; George Mason Univ.; George Washington Univ.;
Georgetown Univ.; Harvard Univ.; Howard Univ.; The Johns Hopkins Univ.; Univ.
of Maryland; Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County; Univ. of Massachusetts,
Amherst; CUNY Graduate School and University Center; New York Univ.; Univ. of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill; North Carolina State Univ.; Univ. of Notre Dame;
Ohio State Univ.;
Univ. of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania State Univ.; Princeton Univ.; Univ. of
Rochester; Rutgers Univ.; Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland; Univ. of South
Carolina; Syracuse Univ.; Texas A&M Univ.; Vanderbilt Univ.; Univ. of
Virginia; West Virginia Univ.; Yale Univ.
Short-term and long-term fellowships: Apply to Carol Brobeck,
Fellowship Coordinator, brobeck@folger.edu.
Conferences/symposia/workshops/other events: Access WWW site for
details or call or e-mail for a brochure.
Development Office: 202-675-0321.
Education Department: 202-675-0395.
Library Museum Shop: 202-675-0308.
Mailing list: Sometimes available (cost: $200).
Hill
Museum & Manuscript Library
http://www.hmml.org/
Executive Director: Fr. Columba Stewart O.S.B.
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
(Formerly Hill Monastic Manuscript Library)
Saint John's University
P.O. Box 7300
Collegeville, MN 56321-7300
Phone: 320-363-3514
Fax: 320-363-3222
hmml@csbsju.edu
Staff: Fr. Columba Stewart, OSB, Executive Director; Julie
Dietman, Assistant for Development and Library Services; Jill Dubbeldee Kuhn,
Public Programs and Exhibitions Associate; Getatchew Haile, Cataloguer Emeritus
of Ethiopian Collection; Matthew Heintzelman, Curator of Austria/Germany
Collection and Rare Books Cataloguer; Erin Lonergan, Director of Development;
Linda Orzechowski, Administrative Assistant; Alan Reed, OSB, Curator of Art;
Tim Ternes, Director of The Saint John’s
Bible and Museum
Programming and Exhibitions;
Wayne Torborg, Director of Digital Collections & Imaging; Theresa Vann,
Curator of the Malta Study Center.
Holdings: The collection consists of microfilm copies of
approximately 90,000 manuscripts and 132,000 papyri from Europe, Ethiopia and
the Middle East. Most of these are pre-1550 in date. In addition, the library
has digital copies of approximately 16,000 manuscripts from the Middle East
(especially Lebanon, Syria and Turkey) and South India. There are also slides
of illuminations; a teaching collection of several hundred facsimile volumes;
ca. 50 manuscripts and archival documents from monastic, cathedral, and national
libraries. An extensive reference and catalogue collection supports research in
the history of the book, monasticism, and the religious military orders. Since
2004, the Library has conducted extensive digitization projects of its
collections. See Vivarium at www.hmml.org.
In addition to the manuscript
collections, HMML maintains other rare book and art collections, including the Arca
Artium Collection, which consists of 4,500 rare books and
manuscripts, 4,500 prints, art objects and a 20,000 volume reference library
focused on monasticism, liturgy, typography, calligraphy and the book arts; the
Saint John's Abbey and University Rare Book Collection, which contains 4500
volumes with an emphasis on monastic, liturgical, biblical, and other religious
texts; and the Saint John's Bible, a handwritten Bible
commissioned by Saint John's University and the monks of Saint John's Abbey.
This is the first handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned in 500
years.
Circulation: This is a non-circulating library.
Cataloguing system: Microfilms and digital images are managed
with an online database (OLIVER, at: http://www.hmml.org/research08/catalogue/search_home.asp)
and legacy records. VIVARIUM is the home of digitized manuscripts, art, rare
books, photographs, audio, video, and other resources from two Benedictine
monastic and educational communities in central Minnesota. The book
materials—including the rare books and early printed books—are catalogued
on-line with the Saint John's University Library collection. Printed handlists
on some subjects help systematize the manuscript collection. See also www.hmml.org for links to certain handlists,
country listings, and some microfilming projects. Published catalogs: Austria:
Julian G. Plante, Austrian Monasteries [and other collections in Austria] Vol.
1, Part 1 & 2 (Collegeville, 1967, 1974); D. Yates, Vol. 1: Gussing, Haus
im Ennstal, Salzburg (E.b. Konsistorialarchiv, E.B. Priesterseminar und Museum
Carolino-Augusteum), Schlierbach, Schwaz (Collegeville, 1981); P. Jeffery and
D. Yates, Vol. 2: St. Georgenberg-Fiecht (Collegeville, 1985); H. Mayo, Vol. 3:
Herzogenburg (Collegeville, 1985). Ethiopia: G. Haile, W. Macomber, A Catalogue
of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm
Library, Addis Ababa and for the Monastic Manuscript Library, vols. 1-10
(Collegeville, 1975-1993) Portugal: Thomas L. Amos, Biblioteca Nacional de
Lisboa, Fundo Alcobaça, 3 vols. (Collegeville, 1988-1990).
Fellowships: Heckman Stipends (up to $2000), deadline: October 15
and April 15 each year.
Internships: Irma Wyman Internship for undergraduates: contact
HMML to inquire.
Exhibits: See www.hmml.org for
details.
Publications: Publications include reproduction volumes of The
Saint John's Bible, Illuminating the Word: The Making of the Saint John's
Bible, a general quarterly newsletter (Illuminations), a biennial
newsletter of the Malta Study Center (Melitensia), a CD-ROM database of
Latin incipits available through Brepols Publishers (In Principio),
catalogs and hand-lists of the collections, and brochures.
Special events: Annual Fall Open House, featuring demonstrations,
theatrical performances, music, exhibits, and refreshments (homecoming
weekend).
Fundraising activities: The Friends of the Library support the
work of the Library. Major funding for projects comes from various private foundations
and public sources. The Library arranges for planned giving and stock options.
Contact the Development Director (320-363-2095) for more information.
Additional income is obtained through the HMML gift shop.
Community outreach programs: Public lectures, conferences, K-12
curriculum development project, Elderhostel, group tours, fall open house, and
other events. Frequent presentations on The
Saint John's Bible project.
Special emphases: The Library's field teams have microfilmed
entire manuscript libraries in Austria (including the Austrian National
Library), Germany (including the University of Jena, the Dombibliothek and the
Historisches Archiv in Köln, and the Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar),
Portugal (including the National Library in Lisbon), Spain, Ethiopia, and Malta
(including the Archives of the Order of St. John). Recent projects include the
digital preservation of Eastern Christian manuscripts in the Ukraine, Malta,
Ethiopia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and India; cataloguing is currently underway. The Library has established Study Centers to
support research in its three strongest areas: Austria/Germany, Ethiopia, and
Malta.
The Library’s
holdings of medieval manuscripts are either on microfilm or in digital form.
Microfilm copies, digitized microfilms, or digital copies are available for
purchase subject to the permission of the owning library.
Annual budget: Annual Report available upon request.
Research at HMML: Contact Julie Dietman at 320-363-2741or jdietman@csbsju.edu if you are interested in conducting research at HMML.
Knights
of Columbus Vatican Film Library
at Saint Louis University
http://libraries.slu.edu/special/vfl
Contact: Dr. Gregory A. Pass
Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections
Director, Vatican Film Library
Editor, Manuscripta
Pius XII Memorial Library
Saint Louis University
3650 Lindell Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63108
Phone: 314-977-3090 (dept.), 314-977-3096 (office)
Fax: 314-977-3108
vfl@slu.edu; passga@slu.edu
Staff:
Dr. Gregory A. Pass, Director
Dr. Susan L'Engle, Assistant Director
Amy Phillips, Rare Materials Catalog Librarian
Mrs. Barbara Channell, Secretary
Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Thomas F.
Madden (see entry).
Reference Department, Pius XII Memorial Library: Ronald Crown
Scope: The Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library is a research
collection for medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies. At the center of
its collections are microfilm copies of the greater part of the Vatican
Library's Greek, Latin, and Western European vernacular manuscripts. Its
reference collections contain manuscript catalogues for the Vatican Library and
many other manuscript repositories, as well as monographic and periodical
literature in paleography, codicology, illumination, textual editing, and other
disciplines to support manuscript research.
Holdings: Vatican Library Manuscripts on Microfilm: approximately
37,000 manuscript codices on microfilm, consisting of large portions of the
Greek, Latin, and Western European Vernacular holdings of the Vatican Library,
as well as Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopic manuscripts.
Non-Vatican Library Manuscripts on Microfilm: approximately 2,325 manuscript
codices.
Slide Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Illumination:
approximately 52,000 slides.
Jesuit Historical Documents on Microfilm: materials relating to Jesuit
missionary activities in North and South America from the Archivum Romanum
Societatis Iesu, Fondo Gesuitico, the Fondo Curia of the Archivum Pontificiae
Universitatis Gregorianae, the Pastells Collection, Archivio Storico della S.
Congregazione De Propaganda Fide, Biblioteca Ecuatoriana "Aurelio Espinosa
Polit," etc.
Vatican Archives Registers on CD-ROM
Biblioteca Palatina on Microfiche
Biblioteca Cicognara on Microfiche
Incunabula and Early Printed/Rare Books on microfilm, microfiche, and in hard
copy in the Vatican Film Library and the Saint Louis University Library Special
Collections
Reference Collection of Printed Manuscript Catalogues and Works on Paleography,
Codicology, Illumination, etc., as well as Periodical Literature to Support
Manuscript Research
Cataloguing: Online inventory of all Vatican Library manuscripts
on microfilm available at http://libraries.slu.edu/special/vfl/bavmss.htm
Online cataloguing for portions of Vatican Library manuscripts on microfilm,
available through Saint Louis University Library OPAC at
http:/libraries.slu.edu/special/pius
Printed inventory of all Vatican Library manuscripts on microfilm: Charles J.
Ermatinger et al., Guide to Microfilms of Vatican Library Manuscript Codices
Available for Study in the Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University (St.
Louis: Vatican Film Library, 1993)
Printed catalogues of Vatican Library manuscripts as published by the Vatican
Library and other authors or agencies.
Card catalogue for non-Vatican Library manuscripts on microfilm.
Online cataloguing for portions of rare printed books (in microform and in hard
copy) in the collections of the Vatican Film Library and the Saint Louis
University Library Special Collections available through the Saint Louis
University Library OPAC at http:// libraries.slu.edu/special/pius; otherwise
card catalogue. See also Elizabeth J. and Donald A. Cress, A Guide to Rare and
Out-of-Print Books in the Vatican Film Library: An Author-List (Lanham, M.D.:
University Press of America, 1986)
Online inventory for portions of Jesuit Historical Documents on Microfilm
available at http://libraries.slu.edu/special/vfl/jsuitca.htm;
otherwise card catalogue and other finding aids.
Online inventory for Vatican Archives Registers on CD-ROM (Registra Vaticana,
Registra Supplicationum) available at
http://libraries.slu.edu/special/vfl/asvmss.htm.
Published catalogues: [See above.]
Financial aid: (1)
(2) Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies NEH Research Fellowship
supports research projects for five weeks in the Vatican Film Library and the
rare books collections of the Saint Louis University Library. Applicants may be
post-doctoral scholars or graduate students formally admitted to a Ph.D.
granting program working on their dissertations. For further information, see
http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/cmrs/fellow.html
Publications: Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research is
edited by the Vatican Film Library and published by Brepols. The journal
publishes articles and reviews on all aspects of medieval and Renaissance
manuscript studies.
Editorial Staff: Dr. Gregory A. Pass, Editor
Dr. Susan L'Engle, Associate Editor
Book Review Editor
Dr. Kenneth Steinhauser, Associate Editor
For further information on submission and subscriptions, see http://libraries.slu.edu/special/vfl/pblctns.htm.
Conferences: The Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies is
held annually in October and is sponsored by the Vatican Film Library and its
journal, Manuscripta. The conference focuses on medieval and Renaissance manuscript
studies, including paleography, codicology, illumination, book production,
literacy and reading, library history, manuscript cataloguing, etc. For more
information on the conference, see http://
libraries.slu.edu/special/vfl/events.htm
Special emphases: To afford access by scholars in this hemisphere
to microfilm copies of Vatican Library manuscript codices in Latin, Western
medieval and Renaissance vernaculars, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, and Ethiopian.
www.newberry.org
60 W. Walton St.
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: 312-943-9090
Fax: 312-255-3513
President and Librarian: David Spadafora
Director, Center for Renaissance Studies: Carla Zecher. renaissance@newberry.org
Exhibits Officer: Riva Feshbach. feshbachr@newberry.org
Medieval and Renaissance specialists on staff: Paul Saenger
(Poole Curator of Rare Books and Collection Development Librarian), reading,
word separation, book format; Paul F. Gehl (Custodian of the Wing Foundation on
the History of Printing), humanistic education and schoolbooks; Alan Leopold
(Director of Collection Services), rare book cataloger; David Douglass
(Musician-in-Residence), early music; Carla Zecher (Director, Center for
Renaissance Studies), early modern French literature and early music; Megan
Moore (Assistant Director, Center for Renaissance Studies), medieval French
literature.
Special holdings: An independent research library in the
humanities, the Newberry Library has holdings that span the history and culture
of western Europe from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century and the
Americas from the time of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans
through the present day. Special strengths include the Renaissance, history and
theory of music, history of the book and printing, cartography, early philology
and linguistics, American Indian history, the American West, calligraphy,
Portuguese-Brazilian history, local and family history and genealogy, American
literature, particularly Midwestern, Colonial and federal period American
history, Latin American history, bibliography, and railroad history. The
holdings comprise over 1.5 million volumes, 5 million manuscript pages, and
500,000 maps. Over 200 pre-1500 manuscripts and more than 2,000 incunables form
the core of the medieval and Renaissance collections.
Circulation: This is a non-circulating library.
Cataloging system: All cataloged holdings are available through
the local online catalog, the I-Share online catalog, and OCLC’s WorldCat.
Published catalogs: Paul Saenger, Catalogue of the Pre-1500 Manuscript Books at
the Newberry Library. Jean Gottlieb, Printed Books in Science, Medicine,
Technology, and the Pseudo Sciences, ca. 1460-1750. G. K. Hall has published
catalogs of the Ayer collection on American Indians and the Wing Foundation on
the History of Printing. Checklists are available on many topics, such as
courtesy books, early women’s literature, and recent manuscript purchases.
Financial aid: Members of the Center for Renaissance Studies
Consortium are eligible to receive travel funding to attend programs and
conduct research in the Newberry collections.
Fellowships: Available for long- and short-term research stays.
For information see the Newberry’s web site (http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html),
send an e-mail message to the Office of Research and Education at research@newberry.org, or call
312-255-3666.
Internships: Unpaid internships are available. Contact Kristine
Harris, Director of Human Resources, at harrisk@newberry.org.
Programs: Information about public programs, including exhibits,
is available in brochure form, as well as on the Newberry’s web site. Call
312-255-3700 or e-mail pubprog@newberry.org
to be put on the mailing list. The Newberry Consort schedule and information is
available by calling 312-255-3610. The Center for Renaissance Studies each year
offers interdisciplinary and archival programs, conferences, lectures seminars,
and summer institutes. Information about events is available on the Center’s
web pages at www.newberry.org/renaissance
and in a semi-annual brochure. Send an e-mail message to renaissance@newberry.org to be put
on the mailing list.
Admission: The Newberry Library is open to the public without
charge. Reading room cards are available upon presentation of identification
and a brief application.
Contributions: To make a gift to the Annual Fund and become a
member of the Newberry Library Associates, contact the Development Office at
312-255-3510 or go to www.newberry.org/giving.
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