Dear colleagues,
since 2009, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has been funding a project for the digitization and in-depth cataloguing of blockbooks in Bavarian collections. The project is based at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München and conducted by Dr. Rahel Bacher, Veronika Hausler und Dr. Heike Riedel-Bierschwale.
In the meanting, all c. 90 blockbooks known to us in Bavarian collections have been digitized and made accessible online, frequently on the local websites of the holding institutions. As a further step towards an overview over the surviving items, the digital images have now been integrated into a central presentation which you can find on the homepage of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online (BLO):
http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/xylographa
(Automatic forwarding from
http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/blockbuecher
and http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/blockbooks )
In addition to the local website, this presentation offers structured access to blockbooks by the works transmitted in the form of multi-page xylographic prints in the 15th century. The digital images have been linked with (infrared) images of the watermarks and with metadata describing the individual copies. Explanatory texts include hyperlinks to contemporary typographic editions of the same works. In addition, the blockbooks can be accessed by their previous owners (often monastic libraries in Bavaria) and their present locations:
http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/xylographa-werke
http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/xylographa-provenienz
http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/xylographa-sammlungen
We will further enhance the website in the remaining funding period of the project (until mid-2012) and are grateful for corrections and additions. We would particularly like to hear about other digital facisimiles of blockbooks which are accessible online and about unrecorded copies of blockbooks.
Kind regards,
Bettina Wagner
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Dr. Bettina Wagner
Abteilung fuer Handschriften und Alte Drucke
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Ludwigstr. 16
D-80539 Muenchen
Germany
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Tel. +89 / 28638-2982
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