Oettingen-Wallerstein Library

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The Oettingen-Wallerstein Library of the Augsburg University Library is a noble library and was formerly owned by the Oettingen-Wallerstein princes .

It comprises around 1,600 manuscripts , 1,300 incunabula , 1,800 music manuscripts, 600 music prints and 117,000 prints from the 16th to 19th centuries. Century of the five secularized Swabian monasteries Kirchheim am Ries ( Cistercian Sisters ), Maihingen (Birgittinnen and Birgitten , later Minorites ), Mönchsdeggingen , Füssen (St. Mang) and Donauwörth (Holy Cross) (all Benedictines ).

Furthermore, the princes Kraft Ernst (1748–1802) and his son Ludwig (1791–1870) bought medieval editions from the Oettingen house in Paris and went into debt for their bibliophile hobby. The private library has grown over the centuries. However, when it was bought by the Free State of Bavaria, its medieval collection only comprised a smaller part. Fencing, tournament and riding books from the 15th and 16th centuries have remained. A horoscope by Nostradamus for Emperor Rudolf II is included. The treasures of the collection include a gospel book from the Echternach monastery from around 710, the picture Bible of King Sancho el Fuerte of Navarre from around 1190 and a psaltery from Franconia , which is attributed to the 13th century.

In 1816 4,500 manuscripts and early prints were put together in a medieval library in Wallerstein . A publicly accessible reading institute was set up in which parts of the holdings could be viewed. In 1841 the library was relocated to Maihingen Abbey and from 1946 until it was sold in the prince's building of Harburg Castle.

Parts of the library were auctioned off at Karl & Faber in Munich in the 1930s . In 1980, almost the entire remaining stock was sold to the Free State of Bavaria for DM 40 million and is now housed in the central library of the University of Augsburg . The family still owns the small Oettingensche library, which consists of items related to the family. At least one manuscript sale from her is documented in the first decade of the 21st century.

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  1. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine of March 25, 2008, p. 43: Parchment with goose bumps factor (PDF; 170 kB), requested on March 16, 2010
  2. ↑ Sales and auction catalogs
  3. ^ Archivalia: Memory of a prayer book sold by Jörn Günther .