Church Library Pegau
With funding from the DFG, the Pegau Church Library was cataloged in the K10plus catalog. Prints from the 16th and 17th centuries were listed in the national bibliographic catalogs VD16 and VD17. New additions to the national bibliographic catalogs were digitized.
The Pegau Church Library, founded in 1586, is one of the medium-sized church libraries in the Free State of Saxony. It contains over 1,200 titles from the early modern period. These include incunabula from the Benedictine monastery of Pegau, a unique collection of calendar sheet prints from the 16th to the 18th centuries, as well as prints from the 16th and 17th centuries that have not yet been listed in the national bibliographies.
The project aims to catalog the church library and list it in the national bibliographic catalogs GW, VD16, and VD17. The cataloging will take place in the K10plus catalog. In addition, around 180 titles are to be digitized: the prints from the 16th and 17th centuries that have not yet been listed in VD16 and VD17, the incunabula from the Benedictine monastery of Pegau, as well as individual outstanding items such as the “Missale Merseburgense” from 1502 or a choir manuscript from 1584. 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 modern Mirador platform of Leipzig University Library.