Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Medieval Manuscript Leaves Collection in the CUDL

The CMS Digital Resources Cataloging Team and the CU-B Special Collections Department are pleased to announce that the Medieval Manuscript Leaves Collection is available in the CU Digital Library. The collection consists of 178 individual digitized manuscript leaves selected from among Special Collections' Ege, Hayes, and Miscellaneous Manuscript collections. The leaves date from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and many are illuminated with colored ink, decorative initials and elaborate borders and drawings. The bibliographic record and Rocky Mountain Online Archive (RMOA) finding aid for the complete physical collection are also available.

As usual, many people contributed to make this collection available. The crack team of catalogers who worked on these records included Jane Zumwalt, Christina Howard, Candy Gobrecht, Josie Fania and Erin Block. Holley Long was, of course, instrumental in building the collection in Luna. Thanks are due to Debbie Hollis, Kris McCusker and Elizabeth Newsom from Special Collections for their assistance with the materials.

Please direct questions about the metadata portion of this digitization project to Michael Dulock.