Photographs

Visualizing Countryside: Syriac Orthodox Architecture of Northern Mesopotamia

Visualizing Countryside: Syriac Orthodox Architecture of Northern Mesopotamia is a digital archive of photographs of medieval churches and monasteries in the Tur Abdin region in northern Mesopotamia (modern day south-east Turkey). It includes images of buildings, decorations, architectural details, and landscapes. Although most of the buildings photographed were built in the medieval era (roughly from … Read more

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.  

Catholica Collection, Villanova University

The Catholica Collection makes available digital content of Catholic materials including books, journals, papers, and manuscripts dealing with the Roman Catholic Church in general, and in particular works created or published in the Americas. This includes a number of collections featuring periodicals, publications, references, personal papers, parish and diocese records, photographs, etc.