Church Library Annaberg
In the DFG-funded project, the Annaberg Church Library is being cataloged and outstanding prints and medieval manuscript fragments are being digitized.
The Annaberg Church Library, founded around 1560, is one of the largest church libraries in Saxony. The project aims to catalog the early modern prints and medieval manuscript fragments. The goal is to catalog 2,770 titles from the 15th to the 17th centuries and to list them in the national bibliographic catalogs GW, VD16 and VD17, as well as 150 manuscript fragments, which are to be cataloged in Manuscripta mediaevalia. The cataloging of the prints will take place in the K10plus catalog. In addition, around 150 manuscript fragments and 400 prints are to be digitized: the incunabula, prints from the 16th and 17th centuries that have not yet been listed in GW, VD16, and VD17, as well as individual outstanding items such as a richly colored Schedelsche Weltchronik. The digitization will take place in accordance with the DFG’s Digitization guidelines. The presentation of the digitizations on the internet will take place via the digitization platform of Leipzig University Library.