Yesterday we showed you how the Utrecht Library is brilliantly promoting a manuscript of great importance in the Netherlands. Today we are bringing your attention to how Switzerland is skillfully managing the digitization of all its collections on e-codices. You are probably aware of e-codices already:
e-codices offers free online access to medieval and early modern manuscripts from public and church-owned collections as well as from numerous private collections.
June has been a productive month for the DMMmaps project: we were at the DH Benelux Conference in The Hague, Netherlands, presenting this project, but we have also received many new links to that were added to the database. So, without further ado, let's present the additions:
Yesterday we wrote about a beautiful manuscript on the Sexy Codicology blog. Today, we give a look at the repository where we found that pearl: the Digital Library of Spain (access it here). As understandable, the Digital Library of Spain is the digital library of the Biblioteca Nacional de España. It aims to give free access to thousands of digitized documents: books from the 15th to the 19th century, manuscripts, drawings, engravings, pamphlets, posters, photographs, maps, atlases, music scores, historic newspapers and magazines and audio recordings. It was created in 2008 and back then the Digital Library of Spain had around 10,000 works which were selected by experts in different subjects as a cross-section of the bibliographic and documentary heritage of the Biblioteca Nacional de España. Today it comprises more than 134,000 works on all topics in all documentary forms, freely accessible from anywhere in the world.
Emperor Frederick I in a manuscript from Hochschul und Landesbibliothek Fulda (100 D 11) Today we will be looking at the digitized medieval manuscripts from the Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek Fulda (University and State Library of Fulda). You can access them here.
A couple of days ago I received an email from Cambridge Trinity College. I was kindly asked if it was possible to update the link to their digitized medieval manuscripts on the DMMmaps. The email mentioned that they have "been hard at work updating and making it look prettier". Moved by curiosity, I went to give a look and updated the link.
One of our favourite institutions that shares digitized medieval manuscripts online is the J. Paul Getty Museum. The reasons are many, and we will explore them in this post. This is just a small fraction of all the objects available on the website. There are at least 107 digitized medieval manuscripts, and each one is stunning.
The Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (HAB) is a German library, located in the heart of the country, not too far from Hannover. Founded in 1572 it is now home to 900,000 books and 734 digitized manuscripts. There are 16 different collections to browse through, plus several manuscripts coming from other 10 institutions. Every collection has a brief description of its contents: how many manuscripts are in the collection, how many of these are medieval, in which languages there are written, how old they are (oldest and newest,) their provenance, and a list of the digitized manuscripts.
While testing the Standard map yesterday evening, I randomly clicked one of the pins to check if everything was working as intended. I ended up on the Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum (MDZ) website and started giving a look around. As imaginable, after five minutes I was drooling for the quantity of amazing manuscripts that you can find on this website.