Religious Studies Libraries & Archives

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Anglican Library Society

Archiv "Religionsgeschichtliche Schule"
Theologische Fakult‰t der Georg-August-Universit‰t, Gˆttingen

Association of Jewish Libraries - (dead link)

Duke University Papyrus Archive

Emory University - Pitts Theology Library

Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania - Stevick Theological Library

Franciscan University of Steubenville - John Paul II Library - (dead link)

Georgetown University Lauinger Library
The rare book collection of over 17,500 titles is one of the most outstanding theological rare book collections in the United States

Haverford College Magill Library Quaker Collection

Harvard Theological Library

Hill Monastic Manuscript Library

International Baha'i Library

Jewish Theological Seminary - Library - (dead link)
New York, NY
"The Library's collection of Hebrew manuscripts is one of the largest collections in the world. There are more than 11,000 Codices as well as 30,000 Geniza fragments...The scope of the collection of 20,000 early printed books includes practically the entire output of various Hebrew presses in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries...The Library houses the largest collection of Hebrew incunabula, books printed before 1501, in the world."

John Rylands University Library of Manchester - Methodist Archives and Research Centre - (dead link)

Leiden University Library Hebrew Collection

Library of Congress

  • Religion Collections in Libraries and Archives
    A Guide to Resources in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia
    "The focus of this guide is primary source material in the area of religion as well as large or unique published collections of interest to the serious scholar or researcher of religion. The guide includes mainly libraries and archives affiliated with academic institutions or religious denominations, private institutions with strong religion resources, and state and federal repositories."

Ohio State University - The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art
 A Photographic Research and Teaching Archive

Quaker Library Catalogs and Archival Finding Aids - (dead link)
From Friends Meeting at Cambridge Library

Schøyen Collection
 Checklist of 222 Manuscripts Spanning 5000 Years
By Martin Schøyen
Compiled by Elizabeth Gano S¯renssen; 16th ed., Internet ed.; Oslo, September 2000.
"The Sch¯yen Collection comprises most types of manuscripts from the whole world spanning over 5000 years. It is the largest private manuscript collection formed in the 20th century...The whole collection, MSS 1-4517, comprises 12,536 manuscript items, including 2,083 volumes...6,178 manuscript items are from the ancient period, 3200 BC - 500 AD; 3,848 are from the medieval period, 500 - 1500; and 2,510 are post-medieval...This is not a catalogue of the collection. It is a checklist with descriptions of a small selection of 222 manuscripts, or 2,6 %, of the whole of The Sch¯yen Collection. A full catalogue will be published in a few years"

Tulane Manuscripts Department - Jewish Studies

University of California at Berkeley - Near/Middle Eastern Collection - (dead link)

University of California at Berkeley - Tebtunis Papyri Collection

University of Dayton Marian Library - (dead link)
The world's largest collection of printed information on the Virgin Mary.

University of Michigan - Papyrus Collection

Vanderbilt University - Divinity Library

Wake Forest University - Baptist Collection

Yale University - Divinity School Library



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