Western Medieval Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library

The Cataloguing of Western Medieval Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: a TEI approachwith an appendix describing a TEI-conformant manuscript description.

There are three main series of published catalogues of the western manuscripts at the Bodleian Library: the so-called `Quarto' catalogues, published between 1845 and 1900, in quarto format, which cover the major collections acquired (for the most part) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Coxe 1845-1900); the Summary Catalogue , published between 1895 and 1953, which covers the manuscripts acquired from 1602 to 1915, except those already described in the Quarto catalogues (Madan 1895-1953); and the Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts , published in 1991, which covers most post-medieval manuscripts acquired between 1916 and 1975 (Clapinson and Rogers 1991). In January 1996 the Library began a four-year project, funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), under the Non-Formula Funding Specialised Research Collections initiative, the purpose of which is to make available descriptions of the medieval western manuscripts acquired by the Library since 1916, for which no full published catalogue yet exists. For more detailed bibliographical information on the catalogues of western manuscripts at the Bodleian, see http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/wmss/wmss02.htm.