About this database :

Searching this database yields a results screen of the manuscripts matching your selected search criteria. Each manuscript has a short description with links to full descriptions for reading and printing. The fields in this short description are Author, Title, Language, Place of origin, Date of origin, and Incipt/Excipit.

A full description is available in HTML (View) and PDF (Print) formats.

For printing purposes, we advise selecting the PDF format.

Search Help

Title: The Title field contains the "name" of the manuscript. This is a text match search and will only yield direct text matches.

Incipit / Excipit: The Incipit / Excipit field contains the start and/or end of the text. This is a text match search and will only yield direct text matches.

Author: Use the drop-down menu of authors included in this collection.

Place of origin: Use the drop-down menu of places of origin included in this collection.

Language: Use the drop-down menu of languages included in this collection.

Collection number: Use the drop-down menu to select a specific Wellesley College Library Manuscript Collection / Shelf number.

Collection name: Use the drop-down menu to select a specific Wellesley College Library Manuscript Collection.