UB Utrecht
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Die Handschriftenabteilung befindet sich weit außerhalb im Uithof, Heidelberglaan 3, ist mit Bus 11 oder 12 aber vom Bahnhof binnen ca 15 Minuten erreichbar. Fotografieren ist in Maßen erlaubt - offiziell 25 Photos, aber mit wechselnden Aufsichten läßt sich das ausdehnen. tel. 030 253 66 01
Sichtungen
Stolberg August 2013. Vor allem am umfangreichen Nachlaß von Cornelis Booth (bereits erschlossene Briefe der UB Utrecht sind bereits über den Catalogus Epistularum Neerlandicarum (CEN) zugänglich), allerdings mit sehr mäßigem Ertrag. Insbesondere in den diversen Bänden an "observationes" sind nur eine Handvoll Briefe überliefert, was insofern nicht verwundert, als die Bezeichnung falsch ist. Es handelt sich nicht um Observationes im vertrauten Sinne, sondern um Rezeptsammlungen. Weitere Sondierungen an anderen Beständen scheinen wenig aussichtsreich.
Literatur zum Archiv
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Zu den Handschriften:
"Each manuscript has a call number or shelfmark, indicating where it can be found in the depots, for instance 1 A 7 or 6 F 12. Manuscripts having the same size are put together. All manuscripts which were held by the university library in 1909 also have a catalogue number. They are described in a (to a large extent Latin) catalogue (in book format): Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum Bibliothecae Universitatis Rheno-Trajectinae. Part 1 is compiled by P.A. Tiele (1887) and contains the descriptions of Mss. 1-1582. Part 2 is compiled by A. Hulshof (1909) and contains the descriptions of Mss 1583-1907, with additions and corrections to part 1 and a cumulative index. Copies of this catalogue can be found in the reading room of Special Collections and in the reference library.
There are more extensive descriptions of Mss. 836–837, 842–844, 886, 984–985, 987, 992–1000, 1053, 1058, 1064–1066, 1152, 1251, 1322 and 1347–1348. These can be found in the reading room in the Addenda folders.
In the printed catalogues by Tiele and Hulshof the manuscripts are numbered by language and subject, and not by size. For instance the manuscript with call number 5 A 11 is Ms. 149, 3 H 3 is Ms. 150, 4 F 20 is Ms. 151 etc. In the literature it is usual to refer to the catalogue number, sometimes the call number is also given between brackets, but in a single case only the call number is given or even older call numbers such as Eccl. 455, Hist. 176, Hist. Gen. 87 of Var. 338.
Acquisitions bought after 1909 do not have a catalogue number, so they only have a call number, for instance Ms. 5 J 26, the Book of Hours of Kunera van Leefdael, bought in 1973. They are described in the Supplement (Mss. 0 A1-29 C 18) which can be consulted in the reading room, unless it concerns medieval manuscripts, lecture notes or letters which have been described in other publications."
(UUL homepage, 2019)