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Harry Ransom Center Announces Online Database for Medieval and
Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
http://www.utexas.edu/news/2010/05/19/hrc_medieval_manuscripts/
Harry Ransom Center's Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts
Collection Now Accessible Online May 19, 2010
AUSTIN, Texas — The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities
research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin,
has introduced an online database for its medieval and early modern
manuscripts collection. The database includes more than 7,000
digital images and can be accessed via the Ransom Center's Web
site.
The "Belleville Book of Hours" (mid-15th century), once belonged to
Marie de Belleville, daughter of Charles VI of France and is the
finest illuminated manuscript in the collection. Books of Hours
were used for private devotional purposes.The medieval and early
modern manuscripts collection contains 215 items dating from the
11th to the 17th centuries. It comprises items from various
collections, including those of George Atherton Aitken, W. H.
Crain, Carlton Lake, Edward A. Parsons, Sir Thomas Phillipps,
Walter Emile Van Wijk, Evelyn Waugh, John Henry Wrenn and
others.
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