More than 1100 cuneiform artifacts are kept in the Museum of the Abbey of Montserrat (Barcelona), making it the largest collection of its kind in Spain. The catalogue of these texts was produced by Ignacio Márquez Rowe and Manuel Molina (see their publication in Aula Orientalis 15 [1996], pp. 21-31, with a complete bibliography). Nearly three-quarters of this collection consist of documents dated from the time of the so-called Third Dynasty of Ur (ca. 2100-2000 BC), and have been published, first by N. Schneider in 1932, then by M. Molina in 1996 and 1997.

Thanks to funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and within the framework of an agreement of cooperation signed between the CDLI and the Abbey of Montserrat (represented by Father Pius-Ramon Tragan), María-Dolores Casero Chamorro, Bertrand Lafont, Ignacio Márquez Rowe and Klaus Wagensonner were, in November and December of 2012, able to carry out a digitization mission to ensure the long-term digital preservation of this collection, following the conventional procedures of the CDLI.

The Abbey of Montserrat and the CDLI are pleased to present the results of this work in the following pages.