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KlausGraf - am Sonntag, 5. November 2006, 17:11 - Rubrik: English Corner
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Plans by a Geneva museum to sell two ancient manuscripts for millions of dollars have drawn consternation from scholars around the world.
They fear the sale of the papyri, which date back to the 2nd century, could precipitate the break-up of a unique collection of around 50 texts held by the Bodmer Foundation.
The Bodmer, based in Cologny just outside the city, says it needs to raise money to guarantee the long-term future of its museum, which opened only three years ago.
But around 20 academics from Switzerland and abroad are calling for the sale of two manuscripts – gospels of St John and St Luke – to be halted.
According to Paul Schubert, professor of ancient Greek at Geneva University, the collection to which the texts belong is one of the most extensive and valuable of its kind in the world.
He says it contains New Testament codices, other Christian texts and three comedies by the Greek playwright Menander, which were all found together.
"One of the jewels of the [Bodmer] collection is this set of ancient books from the second to fourth century AD that all belong together," Schubert told swissinfo. "It is the same as if the British Museum decided to sell one panel from the Parthenon frieze."
Read more at swissinfo
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They fear the sale of the papyri, which date back to the 2nd century, could precipitate the break-up of a unique collection of around 50 texts held by the Bodmer Foundation.
The Bodmer, based in Cologny just outside the city, says it needs to raise money to guarantee the long-term future of its museum, which opened only three years ago.
But around 20 academics from Switzerland and abroad are calling for the sale of two manuscripts – gospels of St John and St Luke – to be halted.
According to Paul Schubert, professor of ancient Greek at Geneva University, the collection to which the texts belong is one of the most extensive and valuable of its kind in the world.
He says it contains New Testament codices, other Christian texts and three comedies by the Greek playwright Menander, which were all found together.
"One of the jewels of the [Bodmer] collection is this set of ancient books from the second to fourth century AD that all belong together," Schubert told swissinfo. "It is the same as if the British Museum decided to sell one panel from the Parthenon frieze."
Read more at swissinfo
German entry in this weblog:
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2866360/
KlausGraf - am Sonntag, 29. Oktober 2006, 18:44 - Rubrik: English Corner
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Update to http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2484031/
http://cnx.org/content/m13940/latest/
Excerpts:
A monograph with 100 illustrations might well cost its author $5,000.00 or more in permissions costs after the images are purchased. For books on modern and contemporary art, that number is likely to be considerably higher. [...]
Scholars and editors also express grave concerns about the time and effort required to secure good images and permissions to reproduce them.
See also
http://cnx.org/content/m13952/latest/
http://cnx.org/content/m13940/latest/
Excerpts:
A monograph with 100 illustrations might well cost its author $5,000.00 or more in permissions costs after the images are purchased. For books on modern and contemporary art, that number is likely to be considerably higher. [...]
Scholars and editors also express grave concerns about the time and effort required to secure good images and permissions to reproduce them.
See also
http://cnx.org/content/m13952/latest/
KlausGraf - am Dienstag, 24. Oktober 2006, 01:50 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25390-2388630.html
German manuscript collections
Sir, – I was shocked, as most of your readers were, I am sure, to learn, from Nicolas Barker’s account earlier this year, about the demise of the Macclesfield Library (Commentary, June 23). A similar fate is currently being contemplated for one of the most prestigious manuscript collections in Germany, which has been in the care of Karlsruhe’s Badische Landesbibliothek for over a century. This collection comprises a large number of very early manuscripts, many from the monastery of Reichenau (founded circa 720), where they were first catalogued in the ninth century.
It appears that the princes of Baden still have some claims – legally rather dubious, if one cares to take a close look, something they and their advisers are actively discouraging – to large portions of the province’s cultural treasures, even though 1) they were stripped of their politically pre-eminent position in the wake of the First World War and 2) said treasures were secularized in the Napoleonic era and not, strictly speaking, given to the Grand Dukes. The cash raised by auctioning off the manuscripts would pay for repairs at Schloss Salem on Lake Constance, which the impecunious Badens call home.
In the mind of its author, Herr Oettinger, minister-president of Baden-Württemberg, this barbaric scheme would settle once and for all any outstanding claims by the former dynasts, who have already spent their way through the proceeds of the sale of their main schloss at Baden-Baden (including contents). All the federal authorities have done so far is to rule out foreign bids for the Karlsruhe manuscripts, as if that could prevent them, once in private hands, from leaving the country! I can’t help but think that if the EU had a meaningful cultural mandate, with matching human and financial resources, this would be the perfect wrong for it to set right by preserving as a public concern what is indubitably a treasure of supranational significance.
ALAIN J. STOCLET
Université Lyon 2 – Lumière, 86 rue Pasteur, Lyon.
German manuscript collections
Sir, – I was shocked, as most of your readers were, I am sure, to learn, from Nicolas Barker’s account earlier this year, about the demise of the Macclesfield Library (Commentary, June 23). A similar fate is currently being contemplated for one of the most prestigious manuscript collections in Germany, which has been in the care of Karlsruhe’s Badische Landesbibliothek for over a century. This collection comprises a large number of very early manuscripts, many from the monastery of Reichenau (founded circa 720), where they were first catalogued in the ninth century.
It appears that the princes of Baden still have some claims – legally rather dubious, if one cares to take a close look, something they and their advisers are actively discouraging – to large portions of the province’s cultural treasures, even though 1) they were stripped of their politically pre-eminent position in the wake of the First World War and 2) said treasures were secularized in the Napoleonic era and not, strictly speaking, given to the Grand Dukes. The cash raised by auctioning off the manuscripts would pay for repairs at Schloss Salem on Lake Constance, which the impecunious Badens call home.
In the mind of its author, Herr Oettinger, minister-president of Baden-Württemberg, this barbaric scheme would settle once and for all any outstanding claims by the former dynasts, who have already spent their way through the proceeds of the sale of their main schloss at Baden-Baden (including contents). All the federal authorities have done so far is to rule out foreign bids for the Karlsruhe manuscripts, as if that could prevent them, once in private hands, from leaving the country! I can’t help but think that if the EU had a meaningful cultural mandate, with matching human and financial resources, this would be the perfect wrong for it to set right by preserving as a public concern what is indubitably a treasure of supranational significance.
ALAIN J. STOCLET
Université Lyon 2 – Lumière, 86 rue Pasteur, Lyon.
KlausGraf - am Montag, 23. Oktober 2006, 02:08 - Rubrik: English Corner
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New members have joined the OCA, one can read in Peter Suber's OA News. The whole thing is very disappointing: The OCA website http://www.opencontentalliance.org/index.html is absolutely outdated (the "News" are from 2005), there is no link to the content demo at http://www.openlibrary.org/ and so on.
The leaders of the OCA are apparently unable to delegate: It would be a simple thing to set up a weblog (with weekly news) to remain permanently in contact with the people who are friends of the OCA. (It's not the only frustration with B. Kahle: we are waiting years for the UNIVERSAL REPOSITORY announced by Peter Suber - Suber and Kahle seems to have no time for this urgent need of the OA community.)
Google is adding thousands of books monthly to his Book Search index - there is nothing which one can view at the OCA's "Open library". I have no hope that the announced October 2006 event would be the BIG-BANG. At
http://www.archive.org/details/texts
one can count only 4300+ books from the "American libraries" collection (i.e. the OCA participants) - a very poor result for nearly a year digitizing work.
My sympathy is with the OCA and its idea of free content but I begin to understand the UCA decision to make the devil's pact with Google.
The leaders of the OCA are apparently unable to delegate: It would be a simple thing to set up a weblog (with weekly news) to remain permanently in contact with the people who are friends of the OCA. (It's not the only frustration with B. Kahle: we are waiting years for the UNIVERSAL REPOSITORY announced by Peter Suber - Suber and Kahle seems to have no time for this urgent need of the OA community.)
Google is adding thousands of books monthly to his Book Search index - there is nothing which one can view at the OCA's "Open library". I have no hope that the announced October 2006 event would be the BIG-BANG. At
http://www.archive.org/details/texts
one can count only 4300+ books from the "American libraries" collection (i.e. the OCA participants) - a very poor result for nearly a year digitizing work.
My sympathy is with the OCA and its idea of free content but I begin to understand the UCA decision to make the devil's pact with Google.
KlausGraf - am Dienstag, 17. Oktober 2006, 23:56 - Rubrik: English Corner
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To
Ministerpräsident
Günther H. Oettinger
Villa Reitzenstein
Richard-Wagner-Strasse
70184 Stuttgart
Den Haag, October 10, 2006
Dear Ministerpräsident Oettinger,
The Rare Books and Manuscripts Committee of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions is deeply concerned about the proposed sale of manuscripts from the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe.
As custodians of historical book and manuscript collections, we know that the manuscript collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe constitute a unique and irreplaceable cultural heritage of high international importance. Most of the manuscripts come from monasteries in South West Germany and date back as far as the high Middle Ages. Thus, they reflect the diverse history and traditions of a region, which has for centuries been an area of cultural exchange across borders. It is by no means only their relation to regional history, which is of scholarly importance. Quite the contrary, manuscripts in any language and on any subject reflect the wide scope of interests and knowledge, which were held in your country in the past.
A sale of the manuscripts would result in the breaking up of these historic collections and in their dispersal to many different owners, both public and private, in many different countries. The manuscripts would be alienated from their historical and literary context, which is reflected by each monastic collection as a whole. Many of the books would end up in private ownership and thus be inaccessible to academic research. The considerable sums invested in the preservation and cataloguing of the collection, both by your state and funding agencies such as the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, would be lost.
As librarians in charge of digitization projects, we are aware that photographic reproductions of manuscripts are not sufficient replacements for the originals, as scholars analyze not only the contents, but also the material features of manuscripts, ranging from the parchment or paper written on over pigments used for writing and painting to evidence for former use on bindings. Continuing access to the originals is therefore of prime importance. This is best ensured if the manuscripts stay in the region where they were produced, preserved and used up to now.
Therefore, as representatives of the international rare books and manuscripts community, we urge you to prevent the sale and dispersal of this important part of German cultural heritage.
Sincerely yours,
Members and associates of the IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Committee
Susan M. Allen, Chair, USA
Jan Bos, Secretary, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands
María Cristina Guillén Bermejo, Biblioteca Nacional, Spain
Jos Biemans, Amsterdam University Library, The Netherlands
Ivan Boserup, Royal Library, Danmark
Luisa Buson, Italy
Pearce Carefoot, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Canada
Xiaolan Cheng, Zhejiang Provincial Library, China
Anne Christophe, Sorbonne, France
Björn Dal, Lund University Library, Sweden
Elisabeth Eide, Norway
Joana Escobedo, Biblioteca de Catalunya, Spain
Viveca Halldin Norberg, Uppsala University Library, Sweden
Sirkka Havu, National Library, Finland
Barbara Jones, Wesleyan University, USA
Marie Korey, Canada
Richard Landon, University of Toronto, Canada
Hélène Larcher, ENC, France
Fabienne Le-Bars, Bibliothèque Nationale, France
Hye-Eun Lee, National Library, Korea
Regina Mahlke, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Germany
Rémi Mathis, École des Chartes, France
Fabrice Maurin, Sorbonne, France
John C. Meriton, Victoria & Albert Museum, United Kingdom
Francesca Niutta, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Italy
Anna Perälä, Svenska Litteratursällskapets Bibliotek, Finland
Alice Prochaska, Yale University Library, USA
Marcia Reed, USA
Henry Snyder, USA
Peter Springborg, University of Copenhagen, Danmark
Andrew Stephenson, University of Melbourne, Australia
Bettina Wagner, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Germany
Jutta Weber, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Germany
Lin Zuzao, Zhejiang Provincial Library, China
Ministerpräsident
Günther H. Oettinger
Villa Reitzenstein
Richard-Wagner-Strasse
70184 Stuttgart
Den Haag, October 10, 2006
Dear Ministerpräsident Oettinger,
The Rare Books and Manuscripts Committee of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions is deeply concerned about the proposed sale of manuscripts from the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe.
As custodians of historical book and manuscript collections, we know that the manuscript collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe constitute a unique and irreplaceable cultural heritage of high international importance. Most of the manuscripts come from monasteries in South West Germany and date back as far as the high Middle Ages. Thus, they reflect the diverse history and traditions of a region, which has for centuries been an area of cultural exchange across borders. It is by no means only their relation to regional history, which is of scholarly importance. Quite the contrary, manuscripts in any language and on any subject reflect the wide scope of interests and knowledge, which were held in your country in the past.
A sale of the manuscripts would result in the breaking up of these historic collections and in their dispersal to many different owners, both public and private, in many different countries. The manuscripts would be alienated from their historical and literary context, which is reflected by each monastic collection as a whole. Many of the books would end up in private ownership and thus be inaccessible to academic research. The considerable sums invested in the preservation and cataloguing of the collection, both by your state and funding agencies such as the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, would be lost.
As librarians in charge of digitization projects, we are aware that photographic reproductions of manuscripts are not sufficient replacements for the originals, as scholars analyze not only the contents, but also the material features of manuscripts, ranging from the parchment or paper written on over pigments used for writing and painting to evidence for former use on bindings. Continuing access to the originals is therefore of prime importance. This is best ensured if the manuscripts stay in the region where they were produced, preserved and used up to now.
Therefore, as representatives of the international rare books and manuscripts community, we urge you to prevent the sale and dispersal of this important part of German cultural heritage.
Sincerely yours,
Members and associates of the IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Committee
Susan M. Allen, Chair, USA
Jan Bos, Secretary, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands
María Cristina Guillén Bermejo, Biblioteca Nacional, Spain
Jos Biemans, Amsterdam University Library, The Netherlands
Ivan Boserup, Royal Library, Danmark
Luisa Buson, Italy
Pearce Carefoot, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Canada
Xiaolan Cheng, Zhejiang Provincial Library, China
Anne Christophe, Sorbonne, France
Björn Dal, Lund University Library, Sweden
Elisabeth Eide, Norway
Joana Escobedo, Biblioteca de Catalunya, Spain
Viveca Halldin Norberg, Uppsala University Library, Sweden
Sirkka Havu, National Library, Finland
Barbara Jones, Wesleyan University, USA
Marie Korey, Canada
Richard Landon, University of Toronto, Canada
Hélène Larcher, ENC, France
Fabienne Le-Bars, Bibliothèque Nationale, France
Hye-Eun Lee, National Library, Korea
Regina Mahlke, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Germany
Rémi Mathis, École des Chartes, France
Fabrice Maurin, Sorbonne, France
John C. Meriton, Victoria & Albert Museum, United Kingdom
Francesca Niutta, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Italy
Anna Perälä, Svenska Litteratursällskapets Bibliotek, Finland
Alice Prochaska, Yale University Library, USA
Marcia Reed, USA
Henry Snyder, USA
Peter Springborg, University of Copenhagen, Danmark
Andrew Stephenson, University of Melbourne, Australia
Bettina Wagner, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Germany
Jutta Weber, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Germany
Lin Zuzao, Zhejiang Provincial Library, China
KlausGraf - am Freitag, 13. Oktober 2006, 16:23 - Rubrik: English Corner
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9 October 2006
Ministerpräsident Günther H. Oettinger
Villa Reitzenstein
Richard-Wagner-Strasse
70184 STUTTGART
Germany
Dear Sir
BADISCHE LANDESBIBLIOTHEK, KARLSRUHE: PROPOSED SALE OF MANUSCRIPTS
The Consortium of European Research Libraries comprises Europe’s major research libraries, which work actively together, with the strong encouragement of scholars, to promote access to the contents of Europe’s rich historical collections.
I am writing on behalf of the members of the Consortium to express deep concern about the recent news of the proposed sale of manuscripts from the collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe. We respectfully urge you to reconsider this decision in the long-term interests of scholarship and the healthy sustenance of Europe’s long and important cultural heritage.
The manuscripts collection in the Badische Landesbibliothek is of unique historical importance to the whole of Europe and the wider world. Its contents have been available for consultation by scholars and researchers up to the present. To sell the collection now would inevitably lead to its fragmentation and dispersal with consequent loss of access for public consultation. Made available on the open market, books disappear into private hands and may remain inaccessible for hundreds of years, if not for all time. Once dispersed, the collection in the Badische Landesbibliothek can never be recreated.
From a scholarly point of view, so relatively little still is known and understood about the detail of the history of our European continent, and about the dissemination of ideas, that it is absolutely vital for us to retain in public collections as much as possible of the evidence that has come down to us in order to aid and assist future research and understanding
We do strongly encourage you, taking a long-term view, to seek a solution which will enable the collection to be retained in the public domain, open and accessible to scholars, and to ensure its integrity as an immeasurably valuable and abiding part of Germany’s cultural past and that of the wider Europe.
Yours sincerely
(Dr) Ann Matheson
Chairman
Consortium of European Research Libraries
Ministerpräsident Günther H. Oettinger
Villa Reitzenstein
Richard-Wagner-Strasse
70184 STUTTGART
Germany
Dear Sir
BADISCHE LANDESBIBLIOTHEK, KARLSRUHE: PROPOSED SALE OF MANUSCRIPTS
The Consortium of European Research Libraries comprises Europe’s major research libraries, which work actively together, with the strong encouragement of scholars, to promote access to the contents of Europe’s rich historical collections.
I am writing on behalf of the members of the Consortium to express deep concern about the recent news of the proposed sale of manuscripts from the collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe. We respectfully urge you to reconsider this decision in the long-term interests of scholarship and the healthy sustenance of Europe’s long and important cultural heritage.
The manuscripts collection in the Badische Landesbibliothek is of unique historical importance to the whole of Europe and the wider world. Its contents have been available for consultation by scholars and researchers up to the present. To sell the collection now would inevitably lead to its fragmentation and dispersal with consequent loss of access for public consultation. Made available on the open market, books disappear into private hands and may remain inaccessible for hundreds of years, if not for all time. Once dispersed, the collection in the Badische Landesbibliothek can never be recreated.
From a scholarly point of view, so relatively little still is known and understood about the detail of the history of our European continent, and about the dissemination of ideas, that it is absolutely vital for us to retain in public collections as much as possible of the evidence that has come down to us in order to aid and assist future research and understanding
We do strongly encourage you, taking a long-term view, to seek a solution which will enable the collection to be retained in the public domain, open and accessible to scholars, and to ensure its integrity as an immeasurably valuable and abiding part of Germany’s cultural past and that of the wider Europe.
Yours sincerely
(Dr) Ann Matheson
Chairman
Consortium of European Research Libraries
KlausGraf - am Freitag, 13. Oktober 2006, 16:20 - Rubrik: English Corner
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The Universidad Complutense Madrid (http://www.ucm.es) has become the first library in continental Europe and in a non-English speaking country to join the 2-year-old Google Book Search program. With 3 million volumes, the Complutense Library is the second largest in Spain, following only the National Library. This addition will greatly expand Google Book Search’s Spanish language holdings, but the library also has holdings in French, German, Latin, Italian, and English, writes Susanne Bjørner at
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb061009-1.shtml
Though significant, the Complutense project is not the first large digitization project to make Spanish literature freely available. The article mentions the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (http://www.cervantesvirtual.com) but the following list can demonstrate that Spanish Rare book libraries are in Europe the leaders of mass digitizations of old books.
Digital Libraries of Rare Books in Spain
http://wiki.netbib.de/coma/DigiSpain
Updated version of the EXLIBRIS message
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibris/2004/03/msg00065.html
The following link collection (without comments) is dedicated to the Public Domain
Please note that most of the Digital Libraries contain a lot of early modern latin works (partly listed in Dana Sutton's Neolatin Bibliography
http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/bibliography/ )
Directory of Resources
http://www.mcu.es/roai/en/comunidades/registros.cmd
See also
http://patrimonio.red.es/iniciativas/descargas/proyectos_digitalizacion.pdf
Biblioteca Miguel de Cervantes
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/biblioteca_facsimil.shtml
Many latin works, including incunabula (Gutenberg bible!)
Collection Biblioteca de Catalunya:
http://www.bnc.es/digital/cercacat.php?categoria=FDIG
Biskaia's Provincial Library
http://bibliotecaforal.bizkaia.net/screens/bibdigital.html
Large (2000+ books)! E.g. 30+ incunabula
See also http://extern.historicum.net/liwi/2006/liwi2006-32.htm (in German)
Biblioteca Complutense Madrid
http://cisne.sim.ucm.es/search*spi~S4/e?SEARCH=biblioteca+digital
http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/foa/dioscorides.htm (list of works)
2500 titles, mainly history of medicine, including 100+ incunabula
Biblioteca virtual de Andalucia
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/bibliotecavirtualandalucia/
Including 100+ incunabula from Andalusian libraries
See http://www.sfn.historicum.net/links/2005/liwi2005-21.htm (German)
University Library Sevilla
http://www.fondoantiguo.us.es/obras/ (list of works)
55 works mostly incunabula
See now the new page: http://fondotesis.us.es/books/
270+ incunabula, ca. 180 XVIth century books and more
German comment: http://log.netbib.de/archives/2006/03/14/sevilla/
Sevilla Law Library: Pixelegis
http://bib.us.es/guiaspormaterias/ayuda_invest/derecho/pixelegis.htm
84 (March 2004: 30+, March 2005: 130+, March 2006: 360+) works, a few latin works, the other mostly in Spanish. No incunabula.
Sevilla: Biblioteca Digital de la Biblioteca de las Facultades de Filología etc.
http://bib.us.es/guiaspormaterias/ayuda_invest/fgh/bibliotecas/bl_fgh_digital.asp
50+, all Spanish
University Library Valencia
http://digitheka.uv.es
Very Large! 170+ incunabula
Warning: The server is down since several weeks (Sept. 2004)
Update (Oct. 2004): Works can be viewed again but it seems difficult to locate them in the catalog (filtering with "Biblioteca Digital" doesn't work).
March 2006: not available
See now: http://lubna.uv.es:83/
July 2006: available again at http://bibliothek.uv.es/
See also http://bibliothek.uv.es/search*spi/X?t:(*)&searchscope=6&Da=&Db=&SORT=D
Biblioteca Valenciana BIVALDI
http://bv2.gva.es/default.php
Mostly books of local interest - free registration required! A few incunabula.
University Library Granada
http://web.archive.org/web/20050228055747/http://www.ugr.es/~biblio/libros_electronicos/adrasteatitulos.html
(list not complete)
Large!
March 2005: The items are not available since months.
January 2006: Thanks to Nikolaus Jaspert the books can be seen again
Please note that the list above is not complete, you have to use also the OPAC of the Fondo Antiguo at
http://adrastea.ugr.es/search*spi~S2
Now with 100+ (?) incunabula, see e.g. the following search
http://adrastea.ugr.es/search*spi/gIBE+4164/gibe+4164/-26,-1,0,B/browse
According to
http://www.mcu.es/roai/en/comunidades/registro.cmd?id=63
4300 books in 2005
See also http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00005394/ (in Spanish)
Spanish National Library
http://www.bne.es/cgi-bin/wsirtex?FOR=WBNCONS4
302 (Mar 2006; 11 Mar 2004: 234) books before 1830, many in Latin.
University Murcia: Biblioteca Digital Floridablanca
http://www.um.es/biblioteca/bibl_electr/fondo_antiguo/index.html
Some latin saec. XVI
"Fundación San Millán de la Cogolla"
http://www.fsanmillan.es/biblioteca/biblioteca.jsp
212 books, a few incunabula
See the German comment
http://log.netbib.de/archives/2004/08/04/fundacin-san-milln-de-la-cogolla/
Fundación Sancho el Sabio
http://www.euskadi.net/LiburutegiDigitala/
38 early modern titles in latin, no incunabula, but mss.
See the German comment
http://log.netbib.de/archives/2004/08/04/baskisches/
Digital Library of Galicia
http://www.csbg.org/bibliotecadixital/asp/index.asp
Including some latin works
Note that you need a specific TIFF-viewer
BIVIDA: Laws of Aragon
http://www.bivida.es
Large (1800+ works)! Including latin works since saec. 16
University Library Barcelona - Fons Grewe
http://www.bib.ub.es/grewe/grewe.htm
40+ Cookbooks (saec. 16-18) in European languages
Literatura Emblemática Hispánica
http://rosalia.dc.fi.udc.es/cicyt/index.html
See the German comment
http://log.netbib.de/archives/2005/08/23/spanische-emblembucher/
Royal Botanical Garden Madrid
http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/spa/index.php
Mostly saec. 19
Yuste Digital
http://www.yustedigital.com/principal/indexframe.asp
20+ books (saec. XVI/XVIII), some latin
Urbanism
http://www.cehopu.cedex.es/es/biblioteca_dl.php?ID_col=1
Spanish books incl. incunabula
Castilla La Mancha
http://www.uclm.es/ceclm/virtual/libros/index.htm
3 Spanish books before 1800
Catálogo y Biblioteca Digital de Relaciones de Sucesos (siglos XVI-XVIII)
http://rosalia.dc.fi.udc.es/RelacionesSucesosBusqueda/MainPage.jsp
Some digitized copies (too small!) from the Biblioteca Xeral de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spanish
UA Biblioteca de derecho
http://biblioteca.uam.es/paginas/Derecho/bibdigital.html
3 books, one German
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb061009-1.shtml
Though significant, the Complutense project is not the first large digitization project to make Spanish literature freely available. The article mentions the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (http://www.cervantesvirtual.com) but the following list can demonstrate that Spanish Rare book libraries are in Europe the leaders of mass digitizations of old books.
Digital Libraries of Rare Books in Spain
http://wiki.netbib.de/coma/DigiSpain
Updated version of the EXLIBRIS message
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibris/2004/03/msg00065.html
The following link collection (without comments) is dedicated to the Public Domain
Please note that most of the Digital Libraries contain a lot of early modern latin works (partly listed in Dana Sutton's Neolatin Bibliography
http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/bibliography/ )
Directory of Resources
http://www.mcu.es/roai/en/comunidades/registros.cmd
See also
http://patrimonio.red.es/iniciativas/descargas/proyectos_digitalizacion.pdf
Biblioteca Miguel de Cervantes
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/biblioteca_facsimil.shtml
Many latin works, including incunabula (Gutenberg bible!)
Collection Biblioteca de Catalunya:
http://www.bnc.es/digital/cercacat.php?categoria=FDIG
Biskaia's Provincial Library
http://bibliotecaforal.bizkaia.net/screens/bibdigital.html
Large (2000+ books)! E.g. 30+ incunabula
See also http://extern.historicum.net/liwi/2006/liwi2006-32.htm (in German)
Biblioteca Complutense Madrid
http://cisne.sim.ucm.es/search*spi~S4/e?SEARCH=biblioteca+digital
http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/foa/dioscorides.htm (list of works)
2500 titles, mainly history of medicine, including 100+ incunabula
Biblioteca virtual de Andalucia
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/bibliotecavirtualandalucia/
Including 100+ incunabula from Andalusian libraries
See http://www.sfn.historicum.net/links/2005/liwi2005-21.htm (German)
University Library Sevilla
http://www.fondoantiguo.us.es/obras/ (list of works)
55 works mostly incunabula
See now the new page: http://fondotesis.us.es/books/
270+ incunabula, ca. 180 XVIth century books and more
German comment: http://log.netbib.de/archives/2006/03/14/sevilla/
Sevilla Law Library: Pixelegis
http://bib.us.es/guiaspormaterias/ayuda_invest/derecho/pixelegis.htm
84 (March 2004: 30+, March 2005: 130+, March 2006: 360+) works, a few latin works, the other mostly in Spanish. No incunabula.
Sevilla: Biblioteca Digital de la Biblioteca de las Facultades de Filología etc.
http://bib.us.es/guiaspormaterias/ayuda_invest/fgh/bibliotecas/bl_fgh_digital.asp
50+, all Spanish
University Library Valencia
http://digitheka.uv.es
Very Large! 170+ incunabula
Warning: The server is down since several weeks (Sept. 2004)
Update (Oct. 2004): Works can be viewed again but it seems difficult to locate them in the catalog (filtering with "Biblioteca Digital" doesn't work).
March 2006: not available
See now: http://lubna.uv.es:83/
July 2006: available again at http://bibliothek.uv.es/
See also http://bibliothek.uv.es/search*spi/X?t:(*)&searchscope=6&Da=&Db=&SORT=D
Biblioteca Valenciana BIVALDI
http://bv2.gva.es/default.php
Mostly books of local interest - free registration required! A few incunabula.
University Library Granada
http://web.archive.org/web/20050228055747/http://www.ugr.es/~biblio/libros_electronicos/adrasteatitulos.html
(list not complete)
Large!
March 2005: The items are not available since months.
January 2006: Thanks to Nikolaus Jaspert the books can be seen again
Please note that the list above is not complete, you have to use also the OPAC of the Fondo Antiguo at
http://adrastea.ugr.es/search*spi~S2
Now with 100+ (?) incunabula, see e.g. the following search
http://adrastea.ugr.es/search*spi/gIBE+4164/gibe+4164/-26,-1,0,B/browse
According to
http://www.mcu.es/roai/en/comunidades/registro.cmd?id=63
4300 books in 2005
See also http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00005394/ (in Spanish)
Spanish National Library
http://www.bne.es/cgi-bin/wsirtex?FOR=WBNCONS4
302 (Mar 2006; 11 Mar 2004: 234) books before 1830, many in Latin.
University Murcia: Biblioteca Digital Floridablanca
http://www.um.es/biblioteca/bibl_electr/fondo_antiguo/index.html
Some latin saec. XVI
"Fundación San Millán de la Cogolla"
http://www.fsanmillan.es/biblioteca/biblioteca.jsp
212 books, a few incunabula
See the German comment
http://log.netbib.de/archives/2004/08/04/fundacin-san-milln-de-la-cogolla/
Fundación Sancho el Sabio
http://www.euskadi.net/LiburutegiDigitala/
38 early modern titles in latin, no incunabula, but mss.
See the German comment
http://log.netbib.de/archives/2004/08/04/baskisches/
Digital Library of Galicia
http://www.csbg.org/bibliotecadixital/asp/index.asp
Including some latin works
Note that you need a specific TIFF-viewer
BIVIDA: Laws of Aragon
http://www.bivida.es
Large (1800+ works)! Including latin works since saec. 16
University Library Barcelona - Fons Grewe
http://www.bib.ub.es/grewe/grewe.htm
40+ Cookbooks (saec. 16-18) in European languages
Literatura Emblemática Hispánica
http://rosalia.dc.fi.udc.es/cicyt/index.html
See the German comment
http://log.netbib.de/archives/2005/08/23/spanische-emblembucher/
Royal Botanical Garden Madrid
http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/spa/index.php
Mostly saec. 19
Yuste Digital
http://www.yustedigital.com/principal/indexframe.asp
20+ books (saec. XVI/XVIII), some latin
Urbanism
http://www.cehopu.cedex.es/es/biblioteca_dl.php?ID_col=1
Spanish books incl. incunabula
Castilla La Mancha
http://www.uclm.es/ceclm/virtual/libros/index.htm
3 Spanish books before 1800
Catálogo y Biblioteca Digital de Relaciones de Sucesos (siglos XVI-XVIII)
http://rosalia.dc.fi.udc.es/RelacionesSucesosBusqueda/MainPage.jsp
Some digitized copies (too small!) from the Biblioteca Xeral de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spanish
UA Biblioteca de derecho
http://biblioteca.uam.es/paginas/Derecho/bibdigital.html
3 books, one German
KlausGraf - am Freitag, 13. Oktober 2006, 03:01 - Rubrik: English Corner
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Read the Cronaca entry http://www.cronaca.com/archives/004643.html
[...]
ADDENDUM: Still next to nothing about this story outside of the German press, despite all the petitions and letters to the editor from scholars across the world. Let's see what happens now: I've just sent a synopsis of what's happening in Karlsruhe to various news outlets, including the BBC, the Guardian, the Times of London, and the New York Times. Thanks, David!
[...]
ADDENDUM: Still next to nothing about this story outside of the German press, despite all the petitions and letters to the editor from scholars across the world. Let's see what happens now: I've just sent a synopsis of what's happening in Karlsruhe to various news outlets, including the BBC, the Guardian, the Times of London, and the New York Times. Thanks, David!
KlausGraf - am Freitag, 13. Oktober 2006, 02:05 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/10/manuscript-castle.html
With respect to the manuscript images above ('Badische Landesbibliothek St Peter perg. 92': Raimundus Lullus – Thomas le Myésier. Electorium parvum seu breviculum.) -
"The significance of this MS, compiled c.1322 by Thomas le Myésier, lies not only in its illuminations, but also in the extensive texts preserved within these illuminations. A fantastic series of 12 full-page miniatures describes the life of the great Spanish philosopher Lull (died c.1315/16) and presents in allegorical form the content of his work. These miniatures, extraordinary for their artistic merit and originality have texts arranged in various shapes, some of them in gloses that could suggest a precursor of the modern “comic strip”."
With respect to the manuscript images above ('Badische Landesbibliothek St Peter perg. 92': Raimundus Lullus – Thomas le Myésier. Electorium parvum seu breviculum.) -
"The significance of this MS, compiled c.1322 by Thomas le Myésier, lies not only in its illuminations, but also in the extensive texts preserved within these illuminations. A fantastic series of 12 full-page miniatures describes the life of the great Spanish philosopher Lull (died c.1315/16) and presents in allegorical form the content of his work. These miniatures, extraordinary for their artistic merit and originality have texts arranged in various shapes, some of them in gloses that could suggest a precursor of the modern “comic strip”."
KlausGraf - am Samstag, 7. Oktober 2006, 22:46 - Rubrik: English Corner
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