Third party funded individual grant
Start date : 01.01.2023
End date : 31.08.2025
Website: https://ub.fau.de/sammlungen/digitale-sammlungen/
In the third
project, which is scheduled to last 34 months, the 219 paper and 3 parchment
manuscript volumes of the Heilsbronn and St. Jobst monastery libraries are to
be indexed bibliographically and in terms of content and structure, and
digitised in accordance with the respective conservation requirements and in
accordance with the DFG's rules of practice, using high-resolution camera-based
scanning systems in the rooms of the university library and with its own staff.
Heilsbronn is a rare
case of a still almost completely preserved monastery library, which shaped
intellectual life in the Franconian region for centuries and, after
secularisation, still served as a princely school for the junior civil servants
of the Hohenzollern margraviate of Bayreuth and Ansbach. The collection
comprises 418 medieval parchment and 176 paper manuscripts. The library of the
Franciscan monastery of St. Jobst, which existed only from 1514 to 1529,
contains 57 medieval manuscripts.
The works intended for
the project include Bible commentaries, liturgica, theological-philosophical
manuscripts, commentaries on Aristotle, writings on scholasticism and
post-scholasticism, sermons and writings on homiletics, canon law and secular
law, ancient classics and humanists, works on grammar and rhetoric, mysticism
and scholasticism, as well as legends of the saints and scientific manuscripts.
Until the end of the project, the digitised titles will be listed both in the central manuscript portal and via the Bavarian Union Catalogue with the Gateway Bayern portal and in the local catalogue of the University Library of Erlangen-Nürnberg, as well as visualised in the DFG Viewer via the OAI interface and listed in the DDB and Europeana. The descriptions available in older catalogues are checked for each individual manuscript and revised on the basis of the available research documentation. This information, updated in the inventory procedure and taking into account the DFG guidelines on manuscript cataloguing, forms the basis for the short catalogue records to be created in the library catalogues and is also made available for subsequent use by scholars via OAI interfaces in the standardised formats MARCxml, METS/TEI as well as IIIF.