[Sca-librarians] [jahb@Lehigh.EDU: [Fwd: MALVINE (information about (early) modern manuscripts)]]

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

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        Subject: MALVINE (information about (early) modern manuscripts) 
           Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 11:08:23 +0200                        
           From: Heinrich C. Kuhn <hck at lrz.uni-muenchen.de>             
       Reply-To: web4ren at lists.lrz-muenchen.de                          
   Organization: Sem. f. Geistesgesch. d. Renaissance                   
             To: Web4Ren at lists.lrz-muenchen.de                          

 Dear Members of Web4Ren,

    although it was announced yesterday, I
 tested it today (so the risk of traps for
 April Fools is minimal): You can now access
 MALVINE ("Manuscripts and Letters via inte-
 grated Networks in Europe"): a database (or
 meta-database-search-engine) with
 information about post-medieval manuscripts
 in European libraries. The URL is:
 http://www.malvine.org/

 The response apparently is not very fast,
 there are many many European libraries
 with manuscript holdings that are not
 covered by MALVINE, the display of non-7-
 bit-ASCII characters in the information
 for at least some hits is flawed, Molcat
 (BL's manuscript catalogue) is integrated only
 in the Simple Search and not in the Extended
 Search, but nevertheless: This is tool that
 can help to find items one might perhaps
 not have found without MALVINE. And there
 are *many* "rinascimental" items indexed in
 it.
   One hint: in my experience in most cases
 it is a good idea to select "All items" in
 the "for Items"-rubric even if one is looking
 for names.

    Something else: as I won't have any access
 to eMail from this afternoon to Tuesday after
 Easter: already now:
 Best wishes for happy Easter days to all of
 you!

    Best regards

 Heinrich C. Kuhn

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 |    Dr. Heinrich C. Kuhn
 |    Seminar fuer Geistesgeschichte der Renaissance
 |    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
 |    D-80539 Muenchen / Ludwigstr. 31/IV
 |    T.: +49-89-2180 2018, F.: +49-89-2180 2907
 |    inst. URL: http://www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de/
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