Photo archive of older original documents

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The research institute photo archive of older original documents up to 1250 (LBA) is an auxiliary scientific research institute at the University of Marburg . It has "the task of documenting the original documentary tradition for recipients on the soil of the medieval German Empire from the beginnings up to the year 1250 photographically in high quality images, to process it according to diplomatic criteria and to make the results of research and the interested public accessible ".

development

The institute was founded in 1928 by Edmund E. Stengel . During his presidency at the Reich Institute for Older German History (1937–1942), the photo archive was moved to Berlin. During this time it profited massively from the photocopying operations carried out in French and Belgian archives on behalf of the military commander in France . After the resignation of the presidency, the photo archive moved back to Marburg. After his retirement in 1946, Stengel kept the management of the photo archive and only handed it over to Heinrich Büttner in 1963 . Further successors in the management were Walter Heinemeyer and Peter Rück . After Peter Rück retired in 1999, the professorship for historical auxiliary sciences associated with the photo archive was canceled. From 2001 until his death in 2017, the medievalist Andreas Meyer was responsible for the LBA. In March 2006, the German Research Foundation approved a project within the framework of which the holdings (recordings of around 16,000 documents) are to be digitized and put completely on the Internet .

Publications

In the era of Peter Rück, important publications were published in the photo archive. These include the four volumes of the historical auxiliary sciences series and the Elementa diplomatica series (12 volumes, some of which are Marburg dissertations). The series of digital documents from the Marburg photo archive of older original documents is also based on an idea by Peter Rück ; however, they could only be realized after his death. In the form of diplomatic panels, digital post-processing of photos in the photo archive for certain groups of documents are presented. In addition to the oldest documents in the Worms City Archives , above all papal documents from the 11th century have been published.

Web database

Since April 2008, the LBA has presented its databases and the already digitized recordings in a web database. The image descriptions initially reflect the data at the time of the analogue document recording. Since December 2009, parts of the LBA's seal recordings can also be researched and viewed via the distributed image archive prometheus .

literature

  • Frank Michael Bischoff: The database of the “Marburg Photo Archive of Older Original Documents up to 1250”. System description and attempt of a preliminary statistical evaluation. In: Peter Rück (Ed.): Photographic collections of medieval documents in Europe. History, scope, structure and description methods of the most important document photo collections. With contributions to the EDP recording of certificates and photo documents (= historical auxiliary sciences. Vol. 1). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1989, ISBN 3-7995-4201-9 , pp. 25-70.
  • Lisa Dieckmann, Jürgen Nemitz: The Marburg photo archive of older original documents (LBA) online. A consideration with special consideration of papal documents. In: Irmgard Fees , Andreas Hedwig, Francesco Roberg (Hrsg.): Papal documents of the early and high Middle Ages. External characteristics - conservation - restoration. Eudora-Verlag, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-938533-27-7 , pp. 95-115.
  • Sebastian Müller: LBA-online: database, structures and online archive of the digitization project photo archive of older original documents in Marburg. In: Joachim Kemper, Georg Vogeler : Digital document presentations (= writings of the Institute for Documentology and Editing. Vol. 6). Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-6184-3 , pp. 41-50.
  • Francesco Roberg: Insights into the “dark” Middle Ages. 75 years of the Marburg photo archive of older original documents . In: Marburger UniJournal. No. 14, January 2003, pp. 24-28.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Declaration on the LBA website
  2. ↑ 00543.htm MGH archive B 543 , especially p. 118f .: 12,000 photos for the Reichsinstitut alone.
  3. ↑ Directory of the documents published to date in the Digital Document Pictures series

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