Announcement: New Catalogue of Early Modern Manuscripts at Stonyhurst Archive

S tonyhurst's remarkable manuscript collections are already recog- nised through a small group of well-known volumes, especially some of those among the Boardman Collection of Medieval Manuscripts.However, beyond these few items, very little is widely known.Over a number of years, a project has been underway to make these materials more accessible to researchers, and better understood within and beyond Stonyhurst.A new catalogue has recently been completed to provide more information to prospective researchers in early modern fields about the manuscript holdings at Stonyhurst.The new catalogue records details of all bound manuscripts which date between 1550 and 1799, and bound manuscript transcriptions of early modern texts.The date boundary of 1550 was originally decided by Fr Charles Boardman in the first formal cataloguing project for manuscripts at Stonyhurst (established by the terminus ad quem of Boardman's 1862 catalogue of 'manuscripts written before 1550').