In Quicksearch Books+

• Format: Notated Music and Format: Archives or Manuscripts
• Browse or search by Composer or Subject (forms, genres, instruments)
• Limit to a date range (approximate date of composition or copy)
• Modify search - names of instruments (e.g., keyboard, harpsichord, or continuo)

Music Library Special Collections

• Descriptions of music special collections
• Some highlights
• Policies and procedures
• Online exhibitions (include digital images of mss. and editions),
• Digitized treasures with links to other online collections

Music in the Beinecke

• Description of Beinecke's music collections
• Digital Collections at the Beinecke
• Digital Exhibitions
  • Takamiya Collection - Music

Catalogs Beyond Yale

International Project to document musical and textual sources about music to about 1825 

• Series A/I - Printed Editions of Music by Individual Composers
• Series A/II - Manuscripts, 1600-1800
• Series B/I - Printed Collections of Music, for 1500-1550 and 1601-1610
• Libretti (incomplete)
• Treatises (incomplete)
• Lists individual works within collections, gives musical incipits, has a variety of search fields

• US-NH = Yale Music Library
• US-NHub = Beinecke Library
• US-FAy = Yale University, Lewis-Walpole Library, Farmington
• Search for the library abbreviations used in RISM, Grove, and other sources.
• Gives address and other information

• 13,000+ citations for libretti in the Schatz Collection at the Library of Congress
• Available through the University of Virginia Library's online catalogue, Virgo
• Click on "Guest" at the login screen
• Include keywords such as "operas," "librettos," or "micfilm 1182" to find records
• Note the reel number
• The Schatz Collection microfilm is held at the Yale Music Library, Microforms, Reel 1904 (400 reels)
• Request microfilm from staff; read in the SML Microtext Room

For an overview of RISM content, in printed volumes and other formats, see this page.

Boorman, Stanley, et al. “Sources, MS.” Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press.