VHMML School for Paleography and Codicology
VHMML School teaches about scripts and manuscripts, introducing learners to the sciences of paleography and codicology, as well as transcription.
Library
VHMML: Online Resources for the Study of Manuscript Cultures
VHMML offers resources and tools for the study of manuscripts and currently features manuscript cultures from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.
Vivarium: Online Digital Collections of Saint John’s University and the College of Saint Benedict
Vivarium is the home of digitized manuscripts, art, rare books, photographs, and other resources from two Benedictine monastic and educational communities in central Minnesota. It is a searchable database delivering a variety of digital objects, with collections including material from the institutions’ history as well as their manuscript holdings.
Treasures from the Catholic Research Resource Alliance: Women Religious
Highlights some of the rare and unique resources that are available as bibliographic citations and finding aids for the history of women religious through the Catholic Resource Research Alliance (CRRA)’s consortial database, the Catholic Portal.
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.
Beyond Ricci: Rare Books from the Jesuitica Collection at Boston College
This website and database aims to introduce readers to the Jesuitica Collection at the Burns Library, Boston College, by highlighting books written about China by Jesuit missionaries.
Crossings and Dwellings: Restored Jesuits, Women Religious, American Experience, 1814-2014
Using historical maps, books, objects, and textiles, Crossings and Dwellings tells the story of European Jesuits and women religious who arrived in America’s borderlands to serve indigenous and immigrant populations.
Chinese Christian Texts Database
The CCT-Database includes primary and secondary sources concerning the cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (from 1582 to ca. 1840).
Jesuit Society Archives
The Archives of the House of the Superior General of the Society of Jesus includes digitized versions of primary and secondary sources related to Jesuits and their mission activities.
The European Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project
The ongoing Project is constructing inventories of books found in Jesuit library book catalogs, as well as of physical copies of those books and their provenance information.