Notre Dame Library Digital Exhibits

The Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame have several exhibits of material from their digital special collections, some Catholic-themed.

Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project

The goal of the project is to uncover the history of the acquisition and use of Loyola’s original library books.  It grew out of an initiative to digitally reconstruct the earliest surviving library catalogue of St Ignatius College (founded 1870), the forerunner to Loyola University Chicago.  

Canterbury Roll Project

Image of the manuscript without digital annotations.

The Canterbury Roll Project, Canterbury University, New Zealand The Canterbury Roll is a 15th-century English genealogical text. It was created in the late 1420s/ early 1430s and subsequently modified on a number of occasions before final revisions were made to it, most probably during the reign of Richard III (1483–1485). Digital Edition The Digital Edition … Read more