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Funded by a multi-year Insight grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Catalan Manuscripts of the Modern Era (CaMME) project studies a collection of 61 Catalan-language cultural manuscripts (16^th-20^th centuries) held in the library of the Hispanic Society of America in New York. The collection is diverse; its sole unifying feature is that the texts are wholly or in part in Catalan.

The CaMME collection comprises texts dating from 1500 to the 1930s, and includes a considerable number of 18^th-century poems, works dealing with social history, the history of the trades, municipal documentation, personal correspondence, a unique 1706 medical treatise, and dozens of sardana scores. This (online?) collection will make available to scholars everywhere new textual sources for the study of musicology, social history, literature, lexicology, and diachronic linguistic variation across the Catalan-speaking lands. When complete, most of the texts in the collection will be available here as digital images; transcriptions of a select group will also be published here.

The Principal Investigator is Dr. Kenneth Brown of the University of Calgary; co-PI is Dr. Donna M. Rogers of Brescia University College, affiliated with Western University. The research team includes graduate research assistants from Calgary and Western.

Research Team