Lives of the Saints and Hagiography

• Acta Sanctorum – subscription required – unavailable at LSU; an electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, from the edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Societé des Bollandistes in Antwerp and Brussels. A collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organized according to each saint’s feast day, and runs from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940 http://acta.chadwyck.com/all/search

• Acta Sanctorum Apostolorum ad literamexplicata – available in microfilm at LSU’s Middleton Library (main collection); also available through EEBO with an LSU PAWS account

• Getty Museum: The Getty Open Content Program – provides free, open access to over 10,000 images from all media and historical periods, many from medieval illustrated manuscripts: http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html

• Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, the Special Collection department of the University, holds facsimiles of medieval and renaissance books and manuscripts, some of them illustrated:  Bibles, books of hours, martyrologies,  sacred music, church law. Access is public, on site only, free of charge. http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/cc/sg/med-ren-mss-facs.pdf
  • Hill Library also owns an original manuscript Book of Hours (French, ca. 1450) and  reproductions of early printed books, including the Gutenberg Bible (1455), the Cologne Bible (1478), and the first printing of the King James Bible (1611). http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/cc/sg/religion.pdf
  • Policies and visitor guide at: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/about/contact.html