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Viewpoint: A case for a universal finding aid for the world’ manuscripts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Lynn Ransom*
Affiliation:
Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2014

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References

1. Richardson, Ernest Cushing, “Manuscript Hunting,” Bibliographical Society of America, Papers and Proceedings, 3 (1909), p. 28.Google Scholar
2. His explanation of his methods and the results of his case studies were, however, published over a five-year period in A Union World Catalog of Manuscript Books: Preliminary Studies in Method, 6 vols. (New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1933-1937)Google Scholar
3. Richardson, , A Union World Catalogue of Manuscript Boob, vol. 1: Preliminary Studies in Method (1933): vivii.Google Scholar