
The Directory of Institutions in the United States and Canada with Pre-1600 Manuscript Holdings by MELISSA CONWAY and LISA FAGIN DAVIS is the first part of a continuation of the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, published in 1935 and 1937 by Seymour de Ricci and W. J. Wilson (New York 1935: American Council of Learned Societies; repr. New York 1961: Kraus Reprint Corp.), and its 1962 Supplement by C. U. Faye and W.H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America). The present Directory details, when known, the current location of the collections listed in the original Census and Supplement, and identifies an additional 281 North American repositories of pre-1600 European manuscripts in Western languages that were not included in the earlier works. For all of the 475 North American repositories, this Directory provides updated contact data and general information on pre-1600 manuscript holdings. Detailed descriptions of individual manuscripts are outside the scope of this Directory, but bibliographical references to published catalogues and internet addresses giving access to on-line cataloguing records are provided when available. The Directory is published by The Bibliographical Society of America.
Following the organizational scheme of the original Census and Supplement, the Directory entries are organized alphabetically by State and City, with public collections listed first for each city, followed by private. (Due to privacy issues, modern private collections are not included). As in the original publications, the Canadian Provinces are found in a separate listing at the end of the directory. Throughout the Directory, an asterisk (*) is used to indicate those collections listed in the Census and/or Supplement that no longer hold pre-1600 manuscripts or have since changed names.
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Read more about this subject: ANNA MELOGRANI, ‘Miniature inedite del Quattrocento lombardo nelle collezioni americane’, in Storia dell’arte, n. 82, 1994, pp. 283-302; n. 83, 1995, pp. 5-27; and ‘Una committenza viscontea per gli Olivetani’, in Florilegium. Scritti di storia dell’arte in onore di Carlo Bertelli, Milano 1995 (Electa), pp. 90-91.
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