ABSTRACT
In 1965 the National Library of Medicine began collecting films of medical manuscripts in European libraries. The idea of filming the manuscript collections of the Vatican Library was first proposed by Lowrie J. Daly SJ to the director of libraries at St. Louis University in 1950. Scholars doing research at the Vatican Film Library, besides having access to the microfilms, can use the Vatican Film Library’s collection of reference tools and its card files. The microfilm collections of the Medieval Institute, The University of Notre Dame, fall into two groups: the Frank M. Folsom Microfilm and Photographic Collection, and the Astrik L. Gabriel History of Universities Collection. The Hill Monastic Manuscript Library was begun in 1964 on lines conceived by Coleman J. Barry OSB of St. John’s Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota. The Plato Collection was begun in 1958 by Robert S. Brumbaugh and Rulon Wells, and filming was funded by the Bollingen Foundation.
