Manuscriptorium is a system for collecting and making accessible on the internet information on historical book resources, linked to a virtual library of digitised documents. The Manuscriptorium service is financed by the National Library of the Czech Republic and managed by AiP Beroun s.r.o.
The objectives of the project are the integration of European sources facilitating access to written cultural heritage, the creation of a network of institutions within a European framework and the building up of a European digital manuscript library on the Manuscriptorium platform. This will establish pre-conditions for the affiliation of further partners, including those from beyond the borders of Europe..
The National Library of the Republic of Moldova in Kishinev is a new Manuscriptorium partner contributing with the Book of Sermons by Metropolit Varlaam in an interesting edition from the year 1768. The book was published in Romanian in Cyrillic alphabet; it is known to be written in wonderful language and style and as such it is an important work of the old Romanian literature.
In connection with the exhibition entitled "Codex Gigas – the Devil's Bible: Secrets of the Largest Book in the World", the Royal Library in Stockholm has provided the National Library of the Czech Republic with a digital copy of this scarce manuscript. Access to it via Manuscriptorium is a further step in the process of integration of the European cultural heritage. Codex Gigas
Manuscriptorium’s SW configuration was updated today. Users of OAI-PMH services should update their clients’ settings.
The National Library of Turkey in Ankara (http://www.mkutup.gov.tr/) has become a new major contributor to Manuscriptorium. On the basis of an agreement concluded between this library and the National Library of the Czech Republic, some 10 thousand records relating to Turkish manuscripts will be made available in Manuscriptorium in the initial phase; this means that the National Library of Turkey is presently the most active foreign contributor to the development of the union manuscript catalogue.
For demonstration purposes, we have made available a small (but nevertheless very interesting) selection from the holdings of digitised manuscripts, old printed books and maps presently accessible via the Manuscriptorium database.Details...
The Open Catalogue is a freely accessible facility for easy access to detailed information on historical book resources, a finding guide to existing original documents as well as their digital copies.
The most numerous collection of new digitised manuscripts comes from the holdings of the National Museum Library in Prague. A number of these codices are important from the point of view of the history of book illustration, others contain homiletic and historical texts relating to the Hussite era (e...
Most of the latest digitised documents are held today by the National Museum Library in Prague. These manuscripts include, amongst others, three further texts from Old Czech Annals and works in Latin by Jan Hus. The first collection of codices containing copies from a great variety of sources and pr...
The Vyšehrad Codex (shelfmark XIV.A.13) has pride of place amongst the documents added at the latest update. This is one of the most important monuments of book illustration preserved in Czech libraries. It is thought to have been completed in Bavaria on the occasion of the coronation of King Vratislav II in the year 1086.
Once again, a large proportion of the newly digitised documents are manuscripts from the holdings of the National Library. A well-known monument in the sphere of manuscript illumination and the history of music is the Kouřim Gradual of A.D. 1470 (XIV.A.1). There are further homiletic manuscripts (am...
The majority of digitised manuscripts come from the holdings of the National Library of the Czech Republic and contain theological and exegetic texts, again including inter alia authors whose activities are associated with the Prague university and with the Hussite movement from one or other standpo...
New digitised documents come from the holdings of the National Library of the Czech Republic and from the library of the West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen. The best known codex now made available is the Book of Passion of the Abbess Kunhuta (NK ČR XIV.A.17), created during the period 1313-1321 for Kunh...
Amongst the latest digitised documents the most numerous are manuscripts and printed works from the collections of The National Library of the Czech Republic. The majority of the manuscripts are homiletic and theological codices; legends are also represented (Legenda Aurea by Jakub de Voragine, the ...
An update on 11.01.2007 added 44 records of manuscripts held by the National Library of Poland in Warsaw. They represent an initial contribution, inaugurating the co-operation of this further notable foreign partner. The National Library in Warsaw has undertaken to co-operate with Manuscriptorium on...
