Article

World Digital Library incorporates further prime pieces of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Weitere Meldungen zum Thema:

  • Startseite
  • Sammlung Handschriften

A further 37 outstanding works of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek have been made available in the World Digital Library (WDL) a short time ago. Thus, currently a total of 226 prime items held by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek are shown in the World Digital Library.

Image from: Collectary: "Orationale of St. Erentrud" (13th century) | © BSB/ Clm 15902

Image from: Collectary: "Orationale of St. Erentrud" (13th century) | © BSB/ Clm 15902

Among the newly added titles there are the Psalm homilies of Origen (Cod.graec. 314), which were discovered only in the year 2012, the Orationale of St. Erentrud (Clm 15902) created at the Benedictine monastery St. Peter in Salzburg around 1200 and the Reichenau evangeliary (Clm 23338) written and illuminated at the scriptorium of the island Reichenau around 1020.

In addition to the digital copies and the metadata, texts describing the works are presented in seven languages in each case.

Back
Top