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• Manuscripts, Lombard -- History
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- History
• Manuscripts, Old Norse -- History
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• Music -- Manuscripts -- History

• Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Karen L. Fresco and Anne D. Hedeman (PDF at Ohio State)
• History of ancient manuscripts : a lecture delivered in the Hall of the Inner Temple (John Murray, 1872), by William Forsyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vision of a collector : the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress (Library of Congress, 1991), by Tony Rosati, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress), W. Thomas Taylor (Firm), and Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disputatio de ornamentis codicum veterum (Literis Iod. Guil Kohlesii Acad. typographi, 1716), by Philipp Ludwig Huth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of an exhibition of mediaeval and other manuscripts and jewelled book-covers arranged in the main library (The University Press ;, 1912), by John Rylands Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• Understanding archives and manuscripts (Society of American Archivists, 1990), by James M. O'Toole and Society of American Archivists (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliotek och arkiv i Skåne under medeltiden. (E. Malmström, 1901), by Lauritz Weibull (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Archives in the Ancient World (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2003), by Ernst Maximilian Posner, contrib. by James M. O'Toole (PDF at archivists.org)

• Archives in the Ancient World (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2003), by Ernst Maximilian Posner, contrib. by James M. O'Toole (PDF at archivists.org)
• Istorīi︠a︡ arkhivnago di︠e︡la klassicheskoĭ drevnosti, v Zapadnoĭ Evrope i na musulʹmanskom Vostoke : lekt︠s︡īi, chitannye slushateli︠a︡m Arkhivnykh Kursov pri Petrogradskom Arkheologicheskom Instituti︠e︡ v 1918 godu (2-i︠a︡ gos. tip., 1920), by A. S. Nikolaev, Ilʹi︠a︡ Lukich Mai︠a︡kovskiĭ, and Petrogradskiĭ arkheologicheskiĭ institut. Arkhivnye kursy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Les archives du Canada. (La Cie. de publication de Levis, 1926), by Gustave Lanctôt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• European archival practices in arranging records ([U.S.] General Services Administration, National Archives and Records Service, 1975), by T. R. Schellenberg and United States National Archives and Records Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Istorīi︠a︡ arkhivnago di︠e︡la klassicheskoĭ drevnosti, v Zapadnoĭ Evrope i na musulʹmanskom Vostoke : lekt︠s︡īi, chitannye slushateli︠a︡m Arkhivnykh Kursov pri Petrogradskom Arkheologicheskom Instituti︠e︡ v 1918 godu (2-i︠a︡ gos. tip., 1920), by A. S. Nikolaev, Ilʹi︠a︡ Lukich Mai︠a︡kovskiĭ, and Petrogradskiĭ arkheologicheskiĭ institut. Arkhivnye kursy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A history of the State Paper Office with a view of the documents therein deposited (J. Petheram, 1849), by F. S. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Istorīi︠a︡ arkhivnago di︠e︡la klassicheskoĭ drevnosti, v Zapadnoĭ Evrope i na musulʹmanskom Vostoke : lekt︠s︡īi, chitannye slushateli︠a︡m Arkhivnykh Kursov pri Petrogradskom Arkheologicheskom Instituti︠e︡ v 1918 godu (2-i︠a︡ gos. tip., 1920), by A. S. Nikolaev, Ilʹi︠a︡ Lukich Mai︠a︡kovskiĭ, and Petrogradskiĭ arkheologicheskiĭ institut. Arkhivnye kursy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Vi͡edomostʹ di͡elam i dokumentam XVIII vi͡eka, khrani͡ashchimsi͡a v Arkhivi͡e uprazdnennykh sudebnykh uchrezhdenīĭ Kazanskoĭ gubernīi, prednaznachennym k otpravki͡e v Moskovskīĭ Arkhiv Ministerstva I͡Ustit͡sīi (V Universitetskoĭ tip., 1876), by N. Tikhmenev (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vi͡edomostʹ di͡elam i dokumentam XVIII vi͡eka, khrani͡ashchimsi͡a v Arkhivi͡e uprazdnennykh sudebnykh uchrezhdenīĭ Kazanskoĭ gubernīi, prednaznachennym k otpravki͡e v Moskovskīĭ Arkhiv Ministerstva I͡Ustit͡sīi (V Universitetskoĭ tip., 1876), by N. Tikhmenev (page images at HathiTrust)

• Moskovskīĭ glavnyĭ arkhiv Ministerstva inostrannykh di͡el. (s.n.], 1898), by Moskovskīĭ glavnyĭ arkhiv Ministerstva inostrannykh di͡el and Russia. Kommissīi͡a pechatanīi͡a gosudarstvennykh gramot i dogovorov (page images at HathiTrust)

• Russkīe arkhivy i t︠s︡arskīĭ kontrolʹ prikaznoĭ sluzhby v XVII vi︠e︡ki︠e︡ (Tov. tip. A.I. Mamontova, 1902), by D. Samokvasov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Archives Department of South Australia : public library, museum, and art gallery of South Australia (G. Hassell & Son, 1920), by G. C. Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trudy Pervago sʺezda predstaviteleĭ gubernskikh uchenykh arkhivnykh komissīĭ, i sootvi︠e︡tstvui︠u︡shchikh im ustanovlenīĭ, 6-8 Mai︠a︡ 1914 goda. (Tip. Glav. upr. udi︠e︡lov, 1914), by Russia) Sʺi︠e︡zd predstaviteleĭ gubernskikh uchenykh arkhivnykh komissīĭ (1st : 1914 : Saint Petersburg and Imperatorskoe russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Otzyv Ri︠a︡zanskoĭ uchenoĭ arkhivnoĭ komissīi o knigi︠e︡ prof. D.I︠A︡. Samokvasova "Arkhivnoe di︠e︡lo v Rossīi." (Tip. Gub. pravlenīi︠a︡, 1903), by Ri︠a︡zanskai︠a︡ uchenai︠a︡ arkhivnai︠a︡ komissīi︠a︡ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Documenting democracy, 1964-2004 (National Historical Publications and Records Commission, 2004), by United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Archives Department of South Australia : public library, museum, and art gallery of South Australia (G. Hassell & Son, 1920), by G. C. Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Histoire de l'art byzantin, considéré principalement dans les miniatures (Librairie de lA̕rt; [etc., etc.], 1886), by N. P. Kondakov, Anton Heinrich Springer, and F. Trawinski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miniatures choisies de la bibliothèque du Vatican. (Herder, 1893), by Stephan Beissel and Biblioteca apostolica vaticana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de l'ornementation des manuscrits (E. Rouveyre, 1880), by Ferdinand Denis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illuminated ornaments : selected from manuscripts and early printed books, from the sixth to the seventeenth centuries (W. Pickering, 1833), by Henry Shaw and Frederic Madden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Greek and Syrian miniatures in Jerusalem (The Mediaeval academy of America, 1931), by William Henry Paine Hatch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die miniaturen des frühen mittelalters (R. Piper & co., 1912), by Hermann Hieber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of miniature art. With notes on collectors and collections. (Macmillan and co., 1887), by John Lumsden Propert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illuminated ornaments : selected from manuscripts and early printed books from the sixth to the seventeenth centuries (W. Pickering, 1833), by Henry Shaw and Frederic Madden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de l'ornementation des manuscrits (L. Curmer, 1857), by Ferdinand Denis (page images at HathiTrust)
• I codici miniati. (Loescher, 1883), by Vincenzo Pautassi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les primitifs français et leurs signatures. Les sculpteurs. Extrait de l'Ami des monuments et des arts. (L'Ami des monuments et des arts, 1908), by F. de Mély (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Statuts de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit au droit désir ou du noeud, institué à Naples en 1352 par Louis d'Anjou : manuscrit du XIVme siècle conservé au Louvre dans le Musée des souverains français (Engelmann et Graf, 1853), by Ordre du Saint-Esprit and Horace Viel-Castel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Metropolitan Museum of Art ([Metropolitan Museum of Art], 1924), by William Mills Ivins, Bruce Rogers, William Edwin Rudge (Firm), and Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Salzburger Malerei von den ersten Anfängen bis zur Blütezeit des romanischen Stils : Studien zur Geschichte der deutschen Malerei und Handschriftenkunde des Mittelalters (K. W. Hiersemann, 1908), by Georg Swarzenski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Salzburger malerei von den ersten anfängen bis zur blütezeit des romanischen stils : studien zur geschichte der deutschen malerei und handschriftenkunde des mittelalters (K. W. Hiersemann, 1908), by Georg Swarzenski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studien zur Geschichte der deutschen Malerei und Handschriftenkunde des Mittelalters (K.W. Hiersemann, 1913), by Georg Swarzenski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die Anfänge der Malschule von Winchester im X. Jahrhundert. (Druck von G. Kreysing], 1912), by Otto Sigmund Homburger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Hamaṛōt ekeghetsʻakan patmutʻiwn nor ukhti : mijnakarg usumnaranneri dzeṛnarkutʻian hamar (I Tparani S. Katʻoghikē Ējmiatsni, 1870), by Stepʻanos Mandiniantsʻ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Izsli͡edovanīe o Pandekti͡e Antīokha XI vi͡eka : nakhodi͡ashchemsi͡a v Voskresenskoĭ Novoīerusalimskoĭ biblīoteki͡e arkhimandrita Amfilokhīi͡a. (A.V. Kudri͡avt͡seva, 1880), by Bishop of Uglich Amfilokhīĭ and monk of Palestine Antiochus (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1987), by Sylvia Huot (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Komáromvármegye levéltárának középkori oklevelei. ([Jókai-Könyvnyomda], 1917), by Gyula Alapy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Diplomatarium Faeroense, Føroyskt Fodnbraevasavn: Miðalaldarbrøv upp til Trúbótarskeiðið (only volume known to be published; in Faroese; Tórshavn: H.N. Jacobsen; Copenhangen: Prior, 1907), by Jakob Jakobsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die in der Goettinger Bibliothek erhaltene Geschichte des Inkareiches von Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ([publisher not identified], 1893), by Wilhelm Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space through Paratexts (Studies in Manuscript Cultures v7; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2016), ed. by Giovanni Ciotti and Hang Lin (PDF and Epub with commentary at De Gruyter)

• Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space through Paratexts (Studies in Manuscript Cultures v7; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2016), ed. by Giovanni Ciotti and Hang Lin (PDF and Epub with commentary at De Gruyter)

• Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space through Paratexts (Studies in Manuscript Cultures v7; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2016), ed. by Giovanni Ciotti and Hang Lin (PDF and Epub with commentary at De Gruyter)

• Iter hispanicum; notices et extraits de manuscrits de musique ancienne conservés dans les bibliothéques d'Espagne (P. Geuthner, 1908), by Pierre Aubry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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