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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Manuscripts

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• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
• Manuscripts

• Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection, by Walt Whitman (page images with commentary at LOC)
• The Walt Whitman Archive, by Walt Whitman, ed. by Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price (HTML at whitmanarchive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Walt Whitman (Philadelphia: D. McKay, 1883), by Richard Maurice Bucke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Walt Whitman; To Which is Added, English Critics on Walt Whitman (Glasgow: Wilson and McCormick, 1884), by Richard Maurice Bucke, ed. by Edward Dowden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Days With Walt Whitman; With Some Notes on His Life and Work (London: G. Allen, 1906), by Edward Carpenter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Emory Holloway (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Walt Whitman Archive, by Walt Whitman, ed. by Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price (HTML at whitmanarchive.org)
• Standish O'Grady: Selected Essays and Passages (Dublin: Talbot Press; London: T. Fisher Unwin, ca. 1918), by Standish O'Grady, contrib. by Ernest Augustus Boyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman (New Haven: Pub. for the Yale Review by Yale University Press, 1920), by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text)

• Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amanda A. Gailey (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)

• The Erotic Whitman (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by Vivian R. Pollak (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Ecstatic Whitman: Literary Shamanism and the Crisis of the Union (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1986), by George Hutchinson (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• The Walt Whitman Archive, by Walt Whitman, ed. by Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price (HTML at whitmanarchive.org)

• Walt Whitman in Mickle Street (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921), by Elizabeth Leavitt Keller, contrib. by Guido Bruno (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Conversations With Walt Whitman (New York: E. P. Coby and Co., 1895), by Sadakichi Hartmann, contrib. by Walt Whitman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection, by Walt Whitman (page images with commentary at LOC)

• Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (partial serial archives)

• Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Karen Sánchez-Eppler (HTML at UC Press)

• The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (Helps for Students of History #17; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1919), by M. R. James
  • HTML at tertullian.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Catalogus Codicum Philologicorum Latinorum, Bibliothecae Palatinae Vindobonensis (in Latin; Vienna: F. Beck, 1836), ed. by Stephan Endlicher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notes on the Two Jesuit Manuscripts Belonging to the Estate of the Late Hon. John Neilson, of Quebec, Canada (1887), by Jerome Sasseville and John Gilmary Shea, ed. by G. M. Fairchild (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Books, Manuscripts and Bindings Remarkable for Their Rarity, Beauty and Interest (catalog #456; London: Maggs Bros., 1924), by Maggs Bros. (page images at HathiTrust)
• First Editions of Boswell, Johnson, and Other Authors, Early Printing, Americana, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts (exhibition and sale catalog for books and autographs owned by Amos Ettinger and others; 1938), by Parke-Bernet Galleries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• Manuscripts and Documents: Their Deterioration and Restoration (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, c1955), by W. J. Barrow (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Guide to Documentary Editing (online 3rd edition, ca. 2008), by Mary-Jo Kline and Susan Holbrook Perdue (at gde.upress.virginia.edu)

• Touching Parchment: How Medieval Users Rubbed, Handled, and Kissed Their Manuscripts (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2023-2024), by Kathryn M. Rudy
  • Volume 1 (Officials and Their Books): PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Social Encounters with the Book): PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• 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)

• Notes on the Two Jesuit Manuscripts Belonging to the Estate of the Late Hon. John Neilson, of Quebec, Canada (1887), by Jerome Sasseville and John Gilmary Shea, ed. by G. M. Fairchild (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Touching Parchment: How Medieval Users Rubbed, Handled, and Kissed Their Manuscripts (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2023-2024), by Kathryn M. Rudy
  • Volume 1 (Officials and Their Books): PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Social Encounters with the Book): PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (full serial archives)
• La Bibliofilia (partial serial archives)

• Touching Parchment: How Medieval Users Rubbed, Handled, and Kissed Their Manuscripts (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2023-2024), by Kathryn M. Rudy
  • Volume 1 (Officials and Their Books): PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Social Encounters with the Book): PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• Die Handschriften des Klosters Santa Maria de Ripoll (published with facsimiles in 2 parts, in Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte, v155 #3 and v158 #2, in German; 1907-1908), by Rudolf Beer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Calendar of the Major Jacob Rink Snyder Collection of the Society of California Pioneers (San Francisco: Northern California Historical Records Survey Project, 1940), by Northern California Historical Records Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Translation and Publication of the Manuscript Dutch Records of New Netherland, With an Account of Previous Attempts at Translation (Education Department Bulletin #462, NY State Library bibliography #46; Albany: University of the State of New York, 1910), by Arnold J. F. Van Laer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays From the Sawyer Seminar (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Francis X. Blouin and William G. Rosenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria: From the Original Manuscript in the Possession of the Right Hon. Earl Cowper, K.G. (2 volumes in Latin with English notes; London: Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1897), ed. by Stuart A. Moore
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Cartulaire des Abbayes de Saint-Pierre de la Couture et de Saint-Pierre de Solesmes (cartulary in Latin, with introduction and notes in French; Le Mans: Typ. E. Monnoyer, 1881), ed. by Congrégation de France (page images at HathiTrust)

• Books, Manuscripts and Bindings Remarkable for Their Rarity, Beauty and Interest (catalog #456; London: Maggs Bros., 1924), by Maggs Bros. (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)

• Gizeh and Rifeh, by W. M. Flinders Petrie, contrib. by Herbert Thompson and W. E. Crum (PDF at ETANA)

• Illuminated Manuscripts, by J. A. Herbert (page images at CMU)
• A Manual of Illumination on Paper and Vellum (eighth edition; London: Winsor and Newton, ca. 1861), by John W. Bradley, T. G. Goodwin, and J. J. Laing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New (third edition; London and New York: G. Bell and Sons, 1905), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg (includes Arabic texts; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Camilla Adang, Bruno Chiesa, Omar Hamdan, Wilferd Madelung, Sabine Schmidtke, and Jan Thiele (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• 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)

• The Translation and Publication of the Manuscript Dutch Records of New Netherland, With an Account of Previous Attempts at Translation (Education Department Bulletin #462, NY State Library bibliography #46; Albany: University of the State of New York, 1910), by Arnold J. F. Van Laer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry (2 volumes; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1960), ed. by Ruth Willard Hughey, contrib. by John Harington and John Harington (PDF files at Ohio State)
• Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry: A Collection of Curious Poetical Compositions of the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries, ed. by Edmund Goldsmid (Gutenberg text)

• Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies) (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013), by Anke Timmermann
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust
• Collaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal Culture: The Otho Layamon (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), by Elizabeth J. Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Minor Poems of the Vernon MS. (published in 2 parts (part III never published) as EETS #98 and #117; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench Trübner and Co., 1892-1901), ed. by Carl Horstmann and Frederick James Furnivall
  • Part I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part II (with a few from the Digby MSS. 2 and 86): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Middle English Stanzaic Versions of the Life of Saint Anne (EETS original series #174; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1928), ed. by Roscoe Edward Parker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions, ed. by John M. Bowers (HTML at metseditions.org)
• Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, by William Langland (HTML at ncsu.edu)

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