medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear Tom,
Please don't be put off by such arrogant rudeness. Not everyone on the
list is as "knowledgeable" as Dr. Drigsdahl. I am very grateful for
your frequent bibliographic tips.
Cheers,
Jim
Tom Izbicki wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Erik,
> I know the resource in its print form. I did not edit, as I was
> between meetings.
> Tom
>
> Erik Drigsdahl wrote:
>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
>> culture
>>
>> Really Tom, your forwarding of the message from Jim Campbell is
>> partially
>> useful as far as the URL is concerned. but the introduction to a well
>> established scholarly
>> publication that existed long before we were born is kind of an
>> embarrassment to
>> many medieval scholars on this list, at least from Europe.
>>
>> The "Gesamtkalog der Wiegendrucke" has been *THE* reference work in
>> Internatinal
>> scholarship on Incunabula since the first volume was printed in 1925.
>> All well assorted libraries has all the subsequent volumes standing
>> on open shelves.
>>
>> Claiming that it is was "the Prussian State Library's attempt to
>> catalog ... 15th century imprints"
>> is a pitiable misconception. It was a joined venture supported by
>> *all* scholars in Europe
>> and run by the "Commisssion for the Complete Catalog of early printed
>> Books"
>> ("Kommisson fûr den Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke", who had made many
>> important publication for many years [ let me just mention:
>> "Einblattdrucke des XV.
>> Jahrhunderts" - Halle 1914] - a contribution to the impressive 100
>> volume
>> publication of early European single woodcuts founded by Paul Heitz
>> in 1909.
>>
>> "The search interface is in German" - of course it is German! What
>> else did you
>> expect? There were no humanistic scholars in the US on an
>> international level
>> at that time. In the field of Art History for example were all major
>> scholarly publications
>> written in German until the mid 1930's. No publication from American
>> Universities
>> before that time is known to me. Bernard Berenson did spend 20 years
>> in Europe (or more)
>> before he was able to publish his first volume of his "Florentine
>> Painters of the Renaissance"
>> at G.P.Putnam's Sons in 1896 (Reprint Putnams's Sons 1899, 12° gilt
>> top $1.00) ,
>> right here in front of me on my desk.
>>
>> The boost to US Universities came with the immigration of the most
>> imminent Jewish
>> and Humanist scholars forced in exile from Germany since 1933. They
>> are all dead
>> by now. If this attitude is how you want to take care of the
>> invaluable inheritance
>> they left to a great people, then best of luck to you, but you are
>> already leaping twelve
>> feet behind us in Europe in educational standards.
>>
>> All best wishes
>> Erik Drigsdahl
>>
>> At 11:14 -0400 29/10/09, Tom Izbicki wrote:
>>
>>> The Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke is the Prussian State Library's
>>> attempt to catalog and identify locations for all 15th century
>>> imprints, not just from Germany but from all over Europe. It's been
>>> online for a while, but until this month the interface required use
>>> of the Citrix client. The newest release is a Web application, no
>>> special client needed, though some types of information still
>>> require special fonts.
>>> The online version not only is searchable, but is also apparently
>>> being updated more or less as the work is done so it should normally
>>> be a bit ahead of the print volumes.
>>> The search interface is in German. The introductory and help pages
>>> are also available in English, but you have to scroll all the way
>>> down to the bottom of the side menu to find the option to switch
>>> languages.
>>> URL for the English version:
>>> http://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/GWEN.xhtml
>>> (And before I get letters from my Germanist colleagues, I know it's
>>> not the Prussian State Library anymore, but that's where the GW
>>> started and the current name is too much of a mouthful for mixed
>>> company.)
>>> - Jim Campbell
>>> Digital Access Librarian | Librarian for German
>>> University of Virginia Library | Charlottesville, VA 22904-4112
>>> 513 Alderman | [log in to unmask] | 434-924-4985
>>>
>>
>>
>
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