Via Bluesky (is this a first?) I learn that the British Library Manuscript catalogue is now back online, two years after the cyber-attack destroyed it. The post is from Calum Cockburn who is the curator of medieval manuscripts
An interim version of the Explore Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue is now available through the BL website: searcharchives.bl.uk It contains all the catalogue data from the eve of the 2023 cyberattack, and features embedded links to all currently available digitised content within the records.
The site traffic on Bluesky is so low that nobody seems to have read the post, so it’s well worth reposting here.
A search for “Tertulliani” correctly lists the three manuscripts of Tertullian that they hold, plus someone’s notes in a Lansdowne manuscript.
Where the manuscript is online, they include a link to it and a thumbnail image to the right. The Tertullian manuscripts were never photographed, so have none. (Possibly I should go down there and photograph them myself!)
Clicking on the link for the oldest, Royal MS 5 F XVIII:
Something I really do like is that link which I have circled in red: a list of all the manuscripts in that collection, the Royal manuscripts, the original deposit at the founding of the British Library. (Others are “Additional”, etc). That is very handy indeed.
Good to see progress!