pieces as the alfonsine royal scriptorium manuscript
of the Libros del saber de astronomía, BH MSS 156
(BETA manid 1091).

Other projects provide partial facsimiles. The Digital Scriptorium,
a collaborative project initiated in 1996 by Berkeley's Bancroft Library
and Columbia University, has became a visual union catalog of medieval
MSS in all western languages to ca. 1550. Currently it provides
descriptions and partial facsimiles at extremely high resolution
of 5,300 manuscripts from 27 American institutions.
Of these, sixty-three are in Spanish, including:

Fragments of the only known MS of Amadís de Gaula, from the
first quarter of the 15th c. (BETA manid 1182. Berkeley:
The Bancroft Library)

The best MS of the Crónica sarracina, mid-15th c. (BETA
manid 3602. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library)

Work on PhiloBiblon has thrown increasingly into relief the imperative
necessity of adequate facsimiles, transcriptions, and editions of all
medieval texts. UpManual
Fradejas Rueda for references to works on falconry, to David Hook
for information on historical texts, to Francisco Marcos-Marín
for the catalog of the manuscript holdings of the Biblioteca Nacional
de Argentina, to Georgina Olivetto for descriptions of MSS
in the British Library, to Rebeca Sanmartín for those of
MSS in Santiago de Compostela and Orense, to Jesús Rodríguez
Velasco and Harvey Sharrer for materials on chivalric literature,
to Sharrer, Arthur Askins, Filipe Alves Moreira, and Pedro Pinto for Spanish manuscripts in
Portuguese libraries, and to a host of others for their assistance
with specific manuscripts and texts.

The compilers of BETA are also grateful for the support of the
following institutions:

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