Top 10 - Manuscripts, Archives or Documents to Digitize

[arca_libraria]

For manuscripts in the Cotton and Royal collections which are ones the search tools seem to struggle with the most, if I know the shelf-mark and just want to view the images I find the quickest way to get to them is the HViewer tool. Is this one of the tools you were talking about? The HViewer tool is just a hierarchical tree with each MS listed, and it tells you if there are digital images. You still have to check the other search tools to find the more detailed catalogue entry (the one with the thumbnail images at the bottom of the page rather than the link to the digital viewer) because HViewer only takes you to either the tiny "this object has a shelfmark" page or the digitised manuscripts catalogue pages, but it's good if you know exactly what you want. If all else fails just typing something like "BL cotton julius a ii" directly into google tends to get quicker results then using one of the search tools on the British Library.

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