COLT: Citation On-Line Tutorial
Here is a catalogue entry for a manuscript (of chapters of Jane Austen's Persuasion in the British Library in London). Imagine you wanted to cite the reverse of folio 14.
London, British Library, MS Egerton 3038, fol. 14v.
If you'd like to see what this MS looks like, it's available at: 'Two Chapters of Persuasion: Diplomatic Display', Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition (2012) <http://www.janeausten.ac.uk/manuscripts/blpers/28.html> [accessed 3 September 2012].
There is a large amount of variation in the ways that different institutions catalogue their manuscripts. Some catalogues will provide very clear information about a manuscript, others will be more cryptic. It is always worth looking at the works of other critics in your field to see the standard forms used to cite manuscripts.
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