Aschaffenburg Court Library
| Aschaffenburg Court Library | |
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 Court and Abbey Library Aschaffenburg in Johannisburg Castle (ground floor)
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| Duration | 106,000 volumes |
| Library type | scientific regional library |
| place | Aschaffenburg |
| ISIL | DE-128 |
| management | Karin L. Kuhn |
| Website | www.hofbibliothek-ab.de |
The Aschaffenburg Court Library ( HBA for short ) is a public scientific library , the regional library for the Bavarian region of Untermain (city of Aschaffenburg , districts of Aschaffenburg and Miltenberg ) and is housed in Johannisburg Castle.
Aschaffenburg Court Library
The core of the library goes back to the book collections of the Electors of Mainz . Albrecht von Brandenburg bequeathed his books, including magnificent manuscripts, to the Mainz Cathedral Library, some of which came to Aschaffenburg in 1803. Elector Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal had previously brought his bibliophile collection to Aschaffenburg in 1794. In 1802, Elector Karl Theodor von Dalberg added his own library. From 1803–1810 the library was owned by the Principality of Aschaffenburg, newly founded for Dalberg, and then by the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, which existed until 1814 . In 1814 the court library (referred to as the “princely library” in the 19th century) came under state Bavarian administration. Book donations from the Jesuit colleges in Aschaffenburg and Ravensburg increased the old stock.
The valuable old stock is particularly important : 58 manuscripts (with a high proportion of cimelia ), 162 incunabula , including a Gutenberg Bible from the Carthusian monastery in Mainz , as well as 30,000 volumes from before 1900. Today it comprises 56,000 volumes after 1900.
Mainz Gospels - Codex aureus
One of the most important works of German painting of the 13th century was created in the cultural and economic heyday of the Archdiocese of Mainz, the Mainz Gospels from around 1250. The client of this incomparable splendid Gospel is unknown; The exceptionally valuable furnishings suggest, however, that the powerful Archbishop of Mainz should be regarded as the founder of the unique manuscript. The Mainz Gospels have been kept in the Aschaffenburg court library since 1803, temporarily guarded in the Mainz Cathedral Treasury.
Aschaffenburg Abbey Library
Since 1962, the Abbey Library belonging to the Aschaffenburg General School and Study Fund and managed by the Aschaffenburg Foundation Office has been on permanent loan from the Court Library .
The holdings (approx. 25,500 titles, 86 manuscripts, 586 incunabula in 382 volumes) go back to the Aschaffenburg University Library (1808–1818), the Lyceum Library (1818–1873) and the (large) grammar school library that subsequently existed . They are made up of the remains of the library of the former collegiate monastery of St. Peter and Alexander zu Aschaffenburg, the library of the Jesuit college, which was closed in 1773, the library of the president of the royal district court Georg Adam Freiherr von Kieningen († 1816), and the remains of the library of the Mainz canon law professor Franz Philipp Franck († 1810).
Librarians
In addition to the founder of the library, Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal , appointed librarians include: Wilhelm Heinse from 1787 to 1803, Niklas Vogt (as professor librarian ), Michael Engel from 1807 to 1813, Karl Joseph Hieronymus Windischmann (professor's librarian ) from 1814 until 1818, which began the reorganization of the book list with the allocation of a signature and which was completed by Joseph Merkel during his tenure from 1810 to 1866.
Hugo Dingler Archive
The Hugo Dingler Archive, which is also housed in the premises of the court library and owned by the non-profit Hugo Dingler Foundation , stores the estate of the constructivist philosopher Hugo Dingler (1881–1954) and other members of his family.
literature
- J. Hofmann, H. Thurn: The manuscripts of the court library Aschaffenburg. Aschaffenburg 1978
- J. Benzing: The early prints of the court library Aschaffenburg up to the year 1550. Aschaffenburg 1968
- Wendelin Renz: The incunabula of the abbey archive library in Aschaffenburg . Werbrun, Aschaffenburg 1908 ( digitized version )
- J. Hofmann, H. Hauke: The manuscripts of the collegiate library and the collegiate church to Aschaffenburg. Aschaffenburg 1978
- Ludwig K. Walter: Catalog of the cradle prints of the Abbey Library to Aschaffenburg. Würzburg 1999 - 448 pp.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ inventory , hofbibliothek-ab.de, accessed August 8, 2012
- ↑ Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck Das Mainz Gospels. Radiant picture-words in gold , Verlag Schnell and Steiner GmbH, Regensburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7954-1955-4 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 34 " N , 9 ° 8 ′ 28" E