Henry Bradshaw Society

Collections of HBS Volumes

The Society receives frequent requests from members and other scholars to advise in locating HBS publications. Since our volumes were not publicly available until the 1980s (before that they were distributed only to members of the Society) early numbers are particularly hard to find. However, several major libraries were members of HBS from the early years. The present page is a provisional listing of these.

A note of caution needs to be sounded before this page is used. It has been compiled from surviving membership lists from the period 1891–1916. Membership lists from the 1890s are incomplete, and those after 1900 do not always accurately reflect the full picture — for instance, it is known that some libraries who became members after the turn of the century joined retrospectively and presumably acquired back-numbers. Nor of course can the accuracy of the original listing be guaranteed. Some of the institutions shown in the list have changed their names, or amalgamated (no note is made of this). It is also the case that some of these early institutional members have ceased to exist, and their collections have been dispersed. (The latter is lamentably true even of some libraries still in existence.) This listing is therefore only a starting-point in locating HBS volumes, but we hope that it will assist enquirers. If anyone using this list has additional information about these or any other collections which they consider it useful to incorporate here, please communicate it to the Society's Secretary.

The annual lists used here date from 1891 to 1916. If there is no date shown against a library, it appears in all the extant lists. One of the above dates indicates that a library first appears in that year.

Listing of Libraries

AUSTRALIA

Melbourne: Public Library of Victoria (1892)

AUSTRIA

Vienna: Imperial Library

BELGIUM

Brussels: Society of Bollandists
Louvain: Abbaye de Mont-César (1916); Collège Philosophique et Théologique (1916)

DENMARK

Copenhagen: Royal Library (1916)

FRANCE

Paris: Bibliothèque National; Bibliothèque de l'Université (1911)
Solesmes: Abbey Library

GERMANY

Berlin: Royal Library
Breslau: Königliche und Universitätsbibliothek (1916)
Munich: Royal Library

IRELAND

Armagh: Public Library (1900)
Dublin: National Library of Ireland (1895); Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1895); Archbishop Marsh's Library (1900); Trinity College Library (1900)
Rathfarnham: St Columba's College (1900)

ITALY

Milan: Ambrosian Library
Rome: Vatican Library (1900)

NEW ZEALAND

Wellington: Diocesan Library (1916)

SOUTH AFRICA

Cape Town: Diocesan Library (1911)

SPAIN

Barcelona: Colegio Máximo de San Ignacio, Sarriá (1916)

SWEDEN

Stockholm: Royal Library (1911)
Uppsala: Royal University Library (1916)

UNITED KINGDOM

Aberdeen: Diocesan Library (1906)
Bala: Theological College (1895)
Birmingham: Oratory Library (1900); St Thomas' Abbey, Erdington (1900)
Bristol: City Reference Library (1900)
Cambridge: University Library (by Copyright); Corpus Christi College; Emmanuel College; Gonville & Caius College; St John's College; King's College; Queens' College; Selwyn College; Trinity College
Canterbury: St Augustine's College; Cathedral Library (1900)
Chester: Chapter Library (1900)
Cuddesdon: Theological College
Durham: University Library
Edinburgh: Advocates' Library (1892); Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1900)
Ely: Theological College
Fort Augustus: St Benedict's Abbey
Hawarden: St Deinol's Library (1900)
Lincoln: Cathedral Library (1900)
Liverpool: Free Library (1911)
London: British Library - formerly British Museum Library (by Copyright); Society of Antiquaries; Church House, Westminster; London Library; St Paul's Cathedral Library; Sion College; Guildhall Library (1895); Royal Institute of Great Britain (1895); Dr Williams' Library (1900)
Manchester: John Ryland's Library (1901)
Mirfield: Community of the Resurrection (1900)
Newcastle: Cathedral Chapter Library
Oxford: Bodleian Library (by Copyright); St John's College; Magdalen College; Christ Church (1900); Keble College (1916)
Ramsgate: St Augustine's Abbey (1904)
Salisbury: Cathedral Library; Sarum College
Wells: Somerset Theological College (1895)
York: Chapter Library

USA

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan (1911)
Baltimore: Peabody Institute (1900)
Boston, Mass.: Public Library (1895)
Bryn Mawr: College Library (1911)
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College (1892); Episcopal Theological School (1911)
Chicago: Newberry Library (1911); University Library (1911)
Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Library (1911)
Madison, Wisc.: State Historical Society (1916)
New York: General Theological Seminary (1911)
Philadelphia: Divinity School (1911); Free Library (1911)
Washington, DC: Library of Congress (1911)