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Medieval Music from the Ville de Laon library
Not all digitized libraries are created equal, and some are more interactive than others. Few let you listen to medieval music. One of the few is the Ville de Laon library.
Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (HAB)
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.
The Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum (MDZ)
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.
The Matenadaran
Well, yesterday it was a success! We launched the Digitized Medieval Manuscripts Maps one hour ahead of schedule (it leaked through Twitter... eheh...), but we like to believe it was a lucky event, since what followed on Twitter was a feast of re-tweets and new followers. In just 48 hours, the website was visited around 3'000 times. We would like to thank all of you who have shared, liked, re-tweeted, re-tumbled, +1ed, etc. It really helped a lot and it certainly got the message out there. This blog is going to be about digitized special collections only. The Sexy Codicology Blog, instead, covers all the aspects of medieval manuscripts. As of today, there are 246 libraries and institutions on the DMMmaps. Same are very famous; others are a bit less traveled by but are, nonetheless, the keepers of fantastic treasures that are available online for everyone to be discovered.
The Book of Kells and its Madonna and Child
Inaugurating a new series of posts: The Social Media Codicologists. You might not know it, but out there, in the social media sphere, there are hundreds of people like Sexy Codicology that share fantastic images of medieval manuscripts, along with great and interesting information. We want to highlight some of the posts we come across on our Tumblr. The first post of this series is a miniature shared by buonfresco:
Madonna and Child from the Book of Kells, Folio 7v, Late 8th or early 9th century, Scotland