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From: Bettina Wagner <Bettina.Wagner(a)bsb-muenchen.de>
Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:59 AM
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Dear colleagues,
the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is currently funding a project for the
digitization of the incunabula of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München,
which comprises c. 9700 editions in more than 20.000 copies and constitutes
the largest collection world-wide in terms of copies. It is intended to
digitized one copy per edition.
Since the beginning of the project, digital images of more than 1100
incunabula have been made freely available online. The can be accessed in
several ways:
1. OPAC:
http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/
Short records of all digitized incunabula have been integrated into the
Bavarian Union Catalogue (Gateway Bayern) and the local OPAC of the BSB.
However, these records do not contain the same level of detail as the BSB's
printed and electronic incunable catalogue (BSB-Ink, see below 3). You can
search for catalogue numbers in BSB-Ink and GW via the "freie Suche"; it is
recommended to place them in inverted commas (e.g.. "BSB-Ink M-149" or "GW
M19909").
The digital images can be accessed under "Weblinks" or the URL/URN.
From Gateway Bayern, the button "SFX" (in the
bottem right-hand corner)
offers a connection to the full record in the online
database of BSB-Ink.
2. Digital collections:
http://www.digital-collections.de/index.html?c=kurzsammlungen&l=en
Here you find, by order of projects, lists of incunabula which have been
digitized, which can be sorted in alphabetical or chronological order or by
shelfmarks.
The current project is listed under:
Incunabula
http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/ausgaben/uni_ausgabe.html?projekt=1157526886<…
All incunabula digitized in other projects which have already been
completed, like "Book illustrations (woodcuts) of the 15th century",
"Early
modern broadsides" (if before 1501) and the "Gutenberg-Bible", are already
accessible via BSB-Ink online.
3. BSB-Ink online:
http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/Inkunabeln.181.0.html
The electronic catalogue of incunabula was converted from the printed
version, published in the Reichert-Verlag Wiesbaden in so far 6 volumes
since 1988. All digitized images of incunabula are successively integrated
into this database, which contains the most detailed descriptions (both
bibliographic and copy-specific data). In the course of the current project,
iconographic data (IconClass and keywords) are created for illustrated
incunabula; these can be searched via the function "Bildsuche".
We constantly strive to consider suggestions for improvements in the online
presentation as well as wishes for incunabula to be digitized, inasmuch as
it is feasible in the project workflow. In the current phase of the project,
primarily illustrated and German incunabula as well as unique copies will be
digitized. It is intended to continue the project for the entire collection
(in one copy per edition).
If would like to draw your special attention to the unique copy of the
"Türkenkalender" from the workshop of Johannes Gutenberg himself, the
earliest incunable in German printed in December 1454, which was recently
digizited from the original - a "Liber Eximiae Raritatis et inter Cimelia
Bibliothecae asservandus" in the words of the Bavarian historian Andreas
Felix von Oefele (1706-1780):
http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/bsbink/Ausgabe_M-149.html
Yours sincerely,
Bettina Wagner
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Dr. Bettina Wagner
Abteilung fuer Handschriften und Alte Drucke
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Ludwigstr. 16
D-80539 Muenchen
Germany
email: bettina.wagner(a)bsb-muenchen.de
Tel. +89 / 28638-2982
Fax. +89 / 28638-12982 oder 2266
postbox: D-80328 Muenchen
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Inkunabelkatalog der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (BSB-Ink) online:
http://mdz1.bib-bvb.de/cocoon/bsbink/start.html
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IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section:
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s18/index.htm
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Programm zum 450jährigen Jubiläum der BSB:
http://www.450jahre-bsb.de/