e-codices
The project e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland was founded at the University of Friborg in Üechtland and offers medieval manuscripts from various Swiss collections for free viewing on its website .
The aim of e-codices is to make Switzerland's medieval manuscripts accessible through a virtual library. The integral digital reproductions of the manuscripts are linked there with scientific descriptions. The offer is aimed at manuscript-oriented research, but also at interested laypeople. The current range of digitized manuscripts is made up of the results of these sub-projects:
- The project emerged from a pilot project to digitize some medieval manuscripts in the St. Gallen Abbey Library .
- The founder and head of the project is Christoph Flüeler .
- Since 2007, manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana in Cologny have been digitally indexed using e-codices. The digitization is made possible by the generous support of Loterie Romande .
- Through the collaboration with e-lib.ch: Electronic Library Switzerland , e-codices will digitize a further 100 manuscripts from various Swiss libraries by the end of 2011. 981 manuscripts from 42 different libraries are currently available (as of September 2013).
- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation finances the digitization of 355 manuscripts before the year 1000 in the St. Gallen Abbey Library .
- In the sub-project “Greek Sources in Swiss Libraries”, 40 manuscripts from various Swiss libraries, including those from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation . a. the Abbey Library St. Gallen, the Abbey Library Einsiedeln , the Bibliothèque de Genève , the Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny and the Burgerbibliothek Bern .
See also
Web links
- E-codices website
- e-codices in the German Manuscripta Mediaevalia forum
- e-lib.ch: Swiss electronic library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Codices Electronici Sangallenses, http://www.cesg.unifr.ch
- ↑ computerworld.ch: Swiss manuscript collection online , from December 16, 2008