In collaboration with the Senate House Library at the University of London, the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the creation of the Seymour de Ricci Bibliotheca Britannica Manuscripta Digitized Archive, a corollary project to the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts.

The archive is a searchable database containing the digitized notes of the historian and bibliographer Seymour Montefiore Robert Rosso de Ricci (1881-1942) made for the compilation of his unfinished census of pre-1800 manuscripts in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.  De Ricci's notes, compiled in thirty-four boxes containing over 60,000 index cards, are currently housed in the Senate House Library. The first cards are now available online in downloadable pdf format. More will become available as they are scanned and processed. New cards will be added daily until the project is completed in the Summer of 2011.

To learn more and access the archive, go to http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/schoenberg/index.html.

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Lynn Ransom, Ph.D.

Project Manager, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts

Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

3420 Walnut Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206

215.898.7851

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/schoenberg