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National Library Poland

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The Digital Library of Poland provides users with access to its collections as well as digitised items from other institutions. The resources delve into Polish history and culture through books, manuscripts, graphics, maps, sheet music, photographs, pamphlets, posters and postcards. They include original texts by the poets Jan Kochanowski and Adam Mickiewicz and various scores by Frédéric Chopin.

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Yale Center for British Art (YCBA). Collections.

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:35 +0000

The Yale Center for British Art focuses on English painting from the 17th-20th centuries, and its collection includes works by William Hogarth, J. M. W. Turner, Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Lawrence, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. It is also important for its collection of rare books and manuscripts, including treatises, bestiaries and atlases. Images in the public domain are indicated.

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Walters Art Museum. Manuscripts.

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The Walters Art Museum makes part of its digitised manuscripts available to users. They come from various parts of the world; Europe, Byzantium, North Africa, South Asia or Ethiopia are some of the places. They can be consulted by a simple search or by using the available filters: type of book, culture, descriptive term, geographical area or subject.

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Dictionary of Novo-Hispanic abbreviations

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Digital dictionary of alphabets and abbreviations in Novo-Hispanic manuscripts administered by the Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Centro de Estudios Mayas. Project: Ak’ab Ts’ib (obscure or cipher writing). It has also been carried out with the support of the UNAM – DGAPA – PAPIME Programme, code PE403011. It is an essential website for academics and professionals whose work is focused on the transcription of historical documents. It is also a web resource that provides essential support for historians and researchers when exploring documentation sources. Through a series of thematic sections we can find different types of writing, neo-Latin abbreviations and a corpus of documents. Polite forms of address and formulas are transliterated according to the writing and the context. Regarding Latin abbreviations, it records the plural forms, the variation of gender or its ending. It also includes a glossary of terms within the official documentation, as well as an onomastic and toponymic index. In short, the user can compare the information and view a whole series of symbols, marginal apostilles, rubrics, scribal signs, warnings, engravings, drawings and cursive crosses in each document.

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Ibero-American Heritage Digital Library “Manuscripts” Collection

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Content repository of digitised collections of manuscripts from libraries and archives in Latin America, as well as databases of digital collections. Here we can find more than 14,000 documents, especially correspondence. The vast majority are primary sources that can be of great use in the field of research and teaching.

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Estense Digital Library.

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:29 +0000

The Bilioteca Estense has an extensive inventory made up of various collections. Among them are the manuscript and printed heritage of the House of Este (XV-XIX), the Collection of the Marquis Giuseppe Campori (illuminated manuscripts, books of hours, 18th century cartography), the personal archive of Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672-1750), the library of Falcò Pio di Savoia (literature, travel books, heraldic texts, maps, children’s books) or the Forni Collection (incunabula, musical manuscripts and geographical maps).

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Estense Gallery. Works.

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The origins of the Estense Gallery date back to the 15th century with the collections held by the Dukes of the House of Este, which were progressively enriched until the 18th century. Among the best-known works are the Modena Triptych by El Greco, the Portrait of Francis I of Este by Velázquez and the Estense Harp. It also has an extensive collection of musical instruments, coins, medals, manuscripts and maps. The search can be refined by selecting the type of object and its location within the museum complex.

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Illuminated Manuscripts. Fitzwilliam Museum.

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:59 +0000

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, has a number of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, including missals and books of hours, available for consultation and viewing. A partial view of these is offered in high resolution, along with detailed information about the book in question.

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