Arizona Center for Medieval
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Arizona State
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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: 10
Staff: Deborah Brown, 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 of Byzantine Studies at Brown
University (joint appointment with Dumbarton Oaks); Smiljka Soretic, Assistant
for Technical Services, Byzantine Photograph and Fieldwork Archives; Natalia
Teteriatnikov, Curator, Byzantine Photograph and Fieldwork Archives; Marta
Zlotnick, Curatorial Assistant, Byzantine Collection; Stephen R. Zwirn,
Assistant Curator, Byzantine Collection; 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; coins will not be accessible between 2005 and
2007); collection of Byzantine art (in off-site storage 2005 to 2007).
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.
Scholarships: 1-2 Bliss Prize Fellowships for students entering
graduate school.
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: "Urban and rural settlement in Anatolia and the
Levant 500-1000 AD" April 22-24, 2005; "Becoming Byzantine: Children
and Childhood in Middle and Late Byzantium" April 28-30, 2006; "The
Old Testament in Byzantium" December 1-3, 2006.
Colloquia: "Ernst Kitzinger Memorial Colloquium" March
4-5, 2005"; "The Hymns of Romanos the Melodist: A bridge between
Greek and Syriac religious literary traditions in Late Antiquity" November
12, 2005; "From Enrico to Andrea Dandolo: Imitation, Appropriation and
Meaning at San Marco in Venice" April 28, 2007.
Public Lectures: Robert Ousterhout (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign), "Confessions of a Troglodyte: A Byzantine Settlement in
Cappadocia" September 29, 2005; John Haldon (Princeton University),
"The Secret of 'Liquid Fire' - an Early Medieval Terror Weapon"
February 16, 2006; Annemarie Weyl Carr (Southern Methodist University),
"Mural Painting at the Church of Asinou" November 7, 2006; Adam
Rabinowitz (University of Texas), "Daily Life in the Medieval
Chersonesos" March 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, but the
galleries are closed for renovation between 2005 and 2007.
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, Academic Programs; 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.
Financial aid (Folger Institute Seminars): Financial aid is available
to members of Folger Institute and Newberry Library consortium schools only.
The consortium schools are Univ. of Aberdeen, American Univ., Amherst Coll.,
Boston Univ., Brown Univ., 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, Baltimore County, Univ. of Maryland, College
Park, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, CUNY Graduate School and University
Center, New York Univ., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, Univ. of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina State Univ., Univ. of Notre Dame,
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State Univ., Princeton Univ., Univ. of
Rochester, Rutgers Univ., Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland, Univ. of South
Carolina, Syracuse 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: Jennifer Cahoy, Executive Assistant; Phil Steger, Deputy
Director of Manuscript Preservation; Getatchew Haile, Cataloguer Emeritus of
Ethiopian Collection; Theresa Vann, Curator of the Malta Study Center; Matthew
Heintzelman, Curator of Austria/Germany Collection; Alan Reed, OSB, Curator of
Art; Carol Marrin, Director of Saint John's Bible Project; Craig Bruner,
Director of the Heritage Edition; Wayne Torborg, Director of Digital
Collections & Imaging; Kelly Booth, Digital Projects Assistant; Tim Ternes,
Director of Exhibitions & Programming; Erin Lonergan, Director of
Development & External Relations; Michael Ziomko, Director of Major &
Planned Gifts; Julie Dietman, Development Assistant; Linda Orzechowski, Public
Services & Operations Assistant.
Holdings: The collection consists of microfilm copies of
approximately 90,000 manuscripts and 132,000 papyri, from Europe,
In 2005 HMML changed its name to reflect the incorporation of several major
collections of religious and liturgical art, books, and manuscripts housed on
the campus of
The Arca Artium Collection, which consists of 4,500 rare books and
manuscripts, 4500 prints, 4000 sound recordings of religious music, art objects
and a 30,000 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.
The
Circulation: This is a non-circulating library.
Cataloguing system: Microfilms and digital images are managed
with an online database and card catalogs. 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
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
Special events: Annual Fall Medieval Festival, 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 festival, and
other events. Presentations daily on the
Special emphases: Current activities include the digital
preservation of manuscripts in
Annual budget: Annual Report available upon request.
Research at HMML: Contact Jennifer Cahoy at 320-363-2217 or jcahoy@csbsju.edu if you are interested in conducting research at HMML.
Knights
of Columbus Vatican Film Library
at Saint Louis University
http://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl
Contact: Dr. Gregory A. Pass
Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections
Librarian, 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, Librarian
Dr. Susan L'Engle, Assistant Librarian
Dr. Jennifer MacDonald, Special Materials Cataloguer
Mrs. Barbara Channell, Secretary
Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies: David
Murphy (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://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl/bavmss.htm
Online cataloguing for portions of Vatican Library manuscripts on microfilm,
availble through Saint Louis University Library OPAC at http://www.slu.edu/libraries/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://www.slu.edu/libraries/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://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl/jsuitca.htm;
otherwise card catalogue and other finding aids.
Online inventory for Vatican Archives Registers on CD-ROM (Registra Vaticana,
Registra Supplicationum) avaible at
http://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl/asvmss.htm.
Published catalogues: [See above.]
Financial aid: (1) Vatican Film Library Mellon Fellowship
supports research projects for periods between two and eight weeks. 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/libraries/vfl/fllwshp.htm
(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
Dr. Kenneth Steinhauser, Associate Editor
For further information on submission and subscriptions, see http://www.slu.edu/libraries/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://www.slu.edu/libraries/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.
http://www.newberry.org
60 W. Walton St.
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: 312-943-9090
Fax: 312-255-3513
President and Librarian: Charles T. Cullen.
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
(Rare Book Cataloguer); Mary Springfels (Director of the Newberry Consort),
early music; Carla Zecher, music and 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 1.4 million volumes, 5 million manuscript pages, and
75,000 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: OCLC-based. Holdings cataloged or recataloged
since 1978 are available on-line. Published catalogues: 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,
recent manuscript purchases.
Financial aid: Members of the Renaissance Center's Consortium are
eligible to receive financial assistance for programs and seminars.
Fellowships: Available for long- and short-term research stays. A
brochure listing deadlines and qualifications is available from Office of
Research and Education or by calling 312-255-3666 or e-mail to research@newberry.org
Internships: Unpaid internships are available. Contact Anne Klos,
Director of Human Resources, at klosa@newberry.org
Programs: Information about public programs, including exhibits,
is available in brochure form three times a year. 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. Information about individual events is available by
calling 312-255-3514 or through our WWW site. The Center for Renaissance
Studies annually offers interdisciplinary and archival programs, conferences
and lecture series as well as seminars.
Admission/Membership: The Newberry Library is open to the public
without charge. Reading room cards are available upon presentation of
identification and a brief application. To become a member of the Associates,
the Newberry's Friends of the Library group, contact the Development Office at
312-255-3510.
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