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• MANUSCRIPTS CATALOGUE - database (with full text search), will be successively replaced by the database ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPTS (BL)
• Guide to the exhibited manuscripts. 3 vols. Oxford 1923-1928.
  • Vol. 1 and 3 [not yet digitized]
  • Vol. 2: Manuscripts (palaeographical and biblical series and chronicles), charters and seals exhibited in the Manuscript Room. Oxford 1923 (InternetArchive)

Cyber attack December 2023: Interim sources: https: //blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2023/12/interim-information-sources-for-british-library-manuscripts.html

• PRIEBSCH, Robert: German manuscripts in England. Vol. 2. Erlangen 1901 (InternetArchive), on the manuscripts from Ashburnham Place and Cheltenham Slg. Philipps cf. vol. 1. Erlangen 1896 (InternetArchive), pp. 1-14; 42-142

• have been successively recorded in the MANUSCRIPTS CATALOGUE since 2007 (see above). Preliminary list available as a document via the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive (as of 10/2025)

• Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts - database (BL London), currently not available (as of 10/2025)

• Database of the collections (search can be restricted to object type: manuscript and other criteria)
• List of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1836-1840. London 1843 [Part 1 (1836), Part 2 (1837), Part 3 (1838), Part 4 (1839), Part 5 (1840) (GoogleBooks)
• Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1841-1845. London 1850 (GoogleBooks)
• Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1846-1847. London 1864 (GoogleBooks)
• Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1848-1853. London 1868 (GoogleBooks)

• FORSHALL, Josiah: Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum. New Series. Vol. 1.1: The Arundel Manuscripts. London 1834 (MDZ Munich)

• FORSHALL, Josiah: Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum. New Series. Vol. 1.2: The Burney Manuscripts. London 1840 (MDZ Munich)

• GRAY, George John: Index to the contents of the Cole Manuscripts in the British Museum. Cambridge 1912 (InternetArchive)

• A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum. London 1808-1812. vol. 1 (MDZ Munich), vol. 2 (GoogleBooks), vol. 3 (MDZ Munich), vol. 4 (1812) (MDZ Munich)
• Online re-cataloging (from 2018/19) Project information. Research via Explore archives and manuscripts.

• Catalogue of a selection from the Stowe manuscripts exhibited in the King's library in the British Museum. London 1883 (InternetArchive)

• British Museum. Bible Exhibition 1911. Guide to the manuscripts and printed books exhibited in celebration of the tercentenary of the authorized version. op. cit. [London] 1911 (InternetArchive)

• deGRAY BIRCH, Walter; JENNER, Henry: Early Drawings and Illuminations. An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts, with a Dictionary of Subjects in The British Museum, London 1879 (InternetArchive)

• HUGHES, Augustus Hughes: Catalogue of manuscript music in the British Museum. 3 vols. London 1906-1909
  • Vol. 1: London 1906. sacred vocal music (InternetArchive)
  • Vol. 2: London 1908. secular vocal music (InternetArchive)
  • Vol. 3: London 1909 Instrumental music, treatises (InternetArchive)

• PALMA DI CESNOLA, Alessandro: Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo britannico di Londra. Turin 1890 (InternetArchive)

• GAYANGOS, Pascual de: Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Spanish language in the British Museum. 4 vols. London 1875-1893
  • Vol. 1: London 1875 (InternetArchive)
  • Vol. 2: London 1877 (InternetArchive)
  • Vol. 3: London 1881 (InternetArchive)
  • Vol. 4: London 1893 (InternetArchive)

• CURETON, William: Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. RIEU, Charles: Supplement to the catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the British Museum. London 1894 (InternetArchive)
• ELLIS, Alexander George; EDWARDS, Edward: A descriptive list of the Arabic manuscripts acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894. London 1912 (InternetArchive)

• MARGOLIOUTH, George: Descriptive list of the Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts in the British Museum. London 1893 (InternetArchive)
• MARGOLIOUTH, George: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts in the British Museum. 5 vols. London 1899-1935
  • Vol. 1: London 1899 (InternetArchive)
  • Vol. 2: London 1905 (InternetArchive)
  • Vol. 3: London 1915 (UB Frankfurt)
  • Vol. 4: London 1935 (UB Frankfurt)
  • Vol. 5 [not yet digitized]

• Margoliouth, George: Descriptive list of Syriac and Karshuni manuscripts in the British Library aquired since 1873. London 1899 (InternetArchive)

• OWEN, Edward: A catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British Museum. 4 vols. London 1900-1922
  • Volumes 1 and 2: London 1900, 1903 (InternetArchive)
  • Volumes 3 and 4: London 1908, 1922 (InternetArchive)

• LOTH, Otto: A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office. London 1877 (InternetArchives)
• ETHÉ, Hermann: Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India Office (Volume 1). Oxford 1903 (InternetArchives)
• ROSS, Edward Denison; BROWNE, Edward Granville: Catalogue of two collections of Persian and Arabic manuscripts preserved in the India Office library. London 1902 (InternetArchives)

• KEITH, Arthur Berriedale: Catalogue of the Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts in the library of the India Office (vol.1, parts 1-4), contains: EGGELING, Julius: Catalogue of the Sanskrit manuscripts in the India Office Library. 2 vols. Oxford 1935
  • Vol. 1: InternetArchives
  • Vol. 2: InternetArchives
• TAWNEY, Charles Henry; THOMAS, Frederick William: Catalogue of two collections of Sanskrit manuscripts preserved in the India Office Library. London 1903 (InternetArchives)