Not sure what exactly a manuscript is? Learn about what the Manuscript Society considers to be a manuscript.
Find out all the exciting events, stories, resources and Manuscript news happening!
Becoming a member grants you access to our member’s only content, as well as invitations to our annual meeting and annual trip.
View upcoming Manuscript Society events including Manuscript Mondays and member events.
Learn more about the Manuscript Society publications including Manuscripts, MS News and the MS Digest.
View upcoming Manuscript Society events including Annual Meeting, Annual Trip, Manuscript Mondays and member events.
Manuscript’s Annual Meeting takes place in a new, interesting location each year. Members meet up, tour private archives, and sometimes participate in auctions.
Learn about Manuscript’s yearly trips. Members travel, domestically and internationally, to tour private archives and learn about rare manuscripts.
Manuscript Mondays is held, virtually, the first Monday of every month. A speaker is invited to give an interesting and informative lecture on an aspect of manuscripts.
Embracing scholarship and collecting, the Learning Commons is a free, public resource for collectors including resources, tips, quips, and information in the world of manuscripts.
Learn about the honored men and women who played important roles in the field of collecting rare documents and autographs.
The Richard Maas Research Grant was established to encourage the use of original manuscripts for academic research. Learn more and see if you qualify.
Learn about what’s going on current day in the manuscript collecting community.
Resources to assist the collector are scattered around the internet, found in libraries, and shared by fellow collectors.
Collecting Resources →
Manuscript Definitions →
New Collectors Resources →
Learn more about giving annually to the Manuscript Society. We are so grateful to all our donors!
At any time during the year anyone can make a contribution to the fund which is used to thank the institutions we visit free of charge.
The society has made a sortable Member Directory available online for members only.
The publication archives viewable only to members.
If you have any interest in manuscripts we would love it if you became a part of our society. By joining you’ll gain access to the member’s only content, including the yearly trip where we often auction off manuscripts and even manuscript collections.
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