Manuscripta Mediaevalia
Manuscripta Mediaevalia is a web portal and enables location-independent and free access to the results of the cataloging and digitization of medieval manuscripts in the German-speaking area. The holdings of medieval libraries, which are often no longer or incompletely handed down, are thus virtually tangible.
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The Manuscripta Mediavalia manuscript forum offers access to scientific descriptions and digital images of medieval manuscripts from various libraries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland under a uniform user interface . It currently makes more than 75,000 documents on Western manuscripts available, mainly from German libraries. Inventory overviews, sorted according to libraries and their locations, offer orientation about the holdings of medieval manuscripts. Modern data technologies, combined with a nationally standardized way of cataloging, allow a structured search, for example by author's name, library location or the beginning of a text . The navigation through the index of iconographic topics offers a clear, hierarchically structured access to the representations in 2,500 illuminated manuscripts.
The portal is set up and maintained by academic libraries of supraregional importance and the Photo Marburg image archive .
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Manuscripta Mediaevalia is sponsored by the Berlin State Library , the Photo Marburg Photo Archive and the Bavarian State Library in Munich. The development and expansion of Manuscripta Mediaevalia are supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The technical operator of the portal is the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg.