Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis

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The codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis (CEEC; lat. For "electronic codes of the Cologne church") is an Internet project , the digitized manuscripts of the Middle Ages offers to the public.

The project was implemented by the University of Cologne , Institute for Historical and Cultural Information Processing.

All manuscripts from the Archbishop's Diocesan and Cathedral Library in Cologne were processed. With this project, the world's first edition of a fully digitized manuscript collection is available in a library. The oldest works date from the 6th century .

Each facsimile has a resolution between 200 and 600 dpi (uncompressed 45 MB each). The total data volume is 5.85 terabytes (about 9000 CDROMs).

The CEEC include a. 366 library codes with a total of 130,000 pages.

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