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Generous donation by the television journalist Wolf von Lojewski – 326 individual sheets of the famous World Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel

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The Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books has welcomed a generous donation: The television journalist Wolf von Lojewski presented Dr. Dorothea Sommer, Deputy Director General, and the library department with his collection of 326 individual sheets of Hartmann Schedel’s World Chronicle.

[From left to right] Dr. Dorothea Sommer (Deputy Director General), Wolf von Lojewski, Dr. Claudia Fabian (Head of the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books) on the occasion of the donation | © BSB/U. Rehusch

[From left to right] Dr. Dorothea Sommer (Deputy Director General), Wolf von Lojewski, Dr. Claudia Fabian (Head of the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books) on the occasion of the donation | © BSB/U. Rehusch

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek preserves the library of Hartmann Schedel (1440 – 1514) and his personal copy of the work (BSB call number: Rar. 287), which came to the court library founded in 1558 as part of the collection of Johann Jakob Fugger (1516 – 1575), thus forming part of the collection at the time of foundation.

The collection of Wolf von Lojewski is special to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and complements its holdings of rare printed works in an extraordinary way.

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