„Vier Freunde sollt ihr sein…“
Autogrammsammlung, Visitenkarte, „Türöffner“, Kunstalbum, Freundebuch – all diese Bezeichnungen umreißen ansatzweise das Große Stammbuch Philipp… ...
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Ein Raubvogel am Bücherregal
Seit ihrer Gründung bis ins frühe 20. Jahrhundert war die Wolfenbütteler Bibliothek nur im Rahmen… ...
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Die Bibliothek zum Klingen bringen: Ein Wandelkonzert
Lieblingsmusik jederzeit von der „Konserve“ auf dem Handy oder Tablet hören, Musizieren aus fotokopierten Noten,… ...
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Tools, die man als Digital Humanist kennen sollte
Im Rahmen eines Workshops an der HAB haben wir uns einige digitale Werkzeuge aus den… ...
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Not We: Zur Konstruktion des Weißseins
„Wetrocities“ – der Titel dieses Künstlerbuchs ist ein Wortkonstrukt aus „We“ und „Atrocities“ (= Gräueltaten).… ...
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You Better Run
Mit „A Threnody for the Dispossessed“ gestaltete Erik Ruin ein Klagelied in Form eines Buches.… ...
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Herzogin und Buchbesitz
Wie viele Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, Einwohnerinnen und Einwohner Niedersachsens wissen schon, dass am Wolfenbütteler Hof… ...
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Ein Ochsenkopf, der viel verrät
Heute sind Wasserzeichen aus dem Alltag nicht mehr wegzudenken – sie sind in jedem Geldschein… ...
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Hidden treasures
Books bound in silk are a rarity in historical libraries. Although many of them are… ...
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From a private book collection to a library
It was in 1843 that the Wolfenbüttel librarian Karl Philipp Christian Schönemann, writing in the… ...
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The books and the sea
In the early modern era, the special significance of the seas was reflected in books,… ...
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HABby Birthday!
We’re nearly there, the big day is approaching fast: on 5 April 2022 the Herzog… ...
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I HAB a question…
Who decides which books make it into the library? ...
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Rich pickings
This is a very special kind of long-term undertaking: the in-depth cataloguing of medieval manuscripts… ...
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Lessons learned
Wolfenbüttel and Oxford have set new standards for photographic technology and presentation with this joint… ...
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‘His head was strangely unhinged and filled with thousands of ideas.’
Ludwig Rudolph von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1671–1735) wrote a diary in which he made detailed notes about… ...
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‘A process of permanent change’
196 pages, eight years, five artists and a one-of-a-kind artist’s book: the story of how… ...
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What does a professional photographer do at the HAB?
Michaela Weber has been employed in the HAB’s photographic workshop for more than 35 years… ...
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‘Shoes! Mask! Keys!’
The Covid-19 restrictions proved challenging for the 108 research fellows working at the HAB during… ...
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Limp bindings: Simple stitching, challenging restoration
In the HAB’s restoration workshop the fragile manuscripts of the Humanist Johannes Caselius (1533–1613) have… ...
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Aby Warburg and the library dragon
The HAB archive contains 26 letters and postcards written by Aby Warburg (1866–1929), the great… ...
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‘An exciting day, and not just for professional reasons’
Because of Covid restrictions the HAB was unable to open its doors for Girls’ Day… ...
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A professor at the Ritterakademie
The theologist and mathematician Leonhard Christoph Sturm (1669–1719) came to Wolfenbüttel in 1694 and stayed… ...
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Wege der Ameise
The new artist’s book Wege der Ameise (Paths of the Ant) by Kai Pfankuch uses… ...
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The convicted book thief
In his Wolfenbüttel ‘Liberey-Ordnung’ (library rules) of 1572, Herzog Julius von Braunschweig-Lüneburg stipulated that no-one… ...
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Books as witnesses
One of the core tasks of museums, archives and libraries is to conduct research into… ...
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Identity and transformation
The corporate design is the first thing readers of a website or book notice and… ...
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A selected treasure
During the early modern period, the Wolfenbüttel library was one of the largest in the… ...
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Made by women
Like the Latin text, the colourful book ornamentation decorating the manuscripts from the High Medieval… ...
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An aide-mémoire
A collection of 35 copperplate portraits recently acquired by the Herzog August Bibliothek is testament… ...
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The curriculum at an early modern university
University studies in the early modern period were subject to particular processes of evaluation, just… ...
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‘The Wild Man of Wolfenbüttel’
‘This is the wild man so fell / of whose exploits ye have sooth heard… ...
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Our hearts leap with joy!
Religious feelings can make our hearts beat faster, stir our blood or even drive us… ...
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Philipp Hainhofer’s Großes Stammbuch
For people today, a Stammbuch is a book that tells us of our family lineage. ...
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Books as reservoirs of biodiversity
The Herzog August Bibliothek also holds books that allow nature to speak for itself. These… ...
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Growth, losses and circulation
One fundamental characteristic of all collections is their embeddedness in economic processes. As one of… ...
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Milestones on the path to project realisation
A mid-term review of the Polonsky Foundation digitisation project ‘Manuscripts from German-Speaking Lands’ ...
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Infection
Diseases have presented challenges throughout human history. In the early modern era scholars attempted to… ...
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A rediscovery in the Herzog August Bibliothek
When a printing press was imported from Europe in 1590, the Jesuits in Japan were… ...
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A visit to the Wissembourg scriptorium with Dr Christine Jakobi-Mirwald
After studying history of art and French and Italian philology, Christine Jakobi-Mirwald wrote a PhD… ...
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Lutheran and Catholic enactments of saintliness
February 2020 saw the publication of the sixth volume of Frühneuzeitliche Märtyrerdramen: Kritische Edition von… ...
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Let everything be of use
The year 2018 also saw the conclusion of a long-term project that had played a… ...
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Permeability and contact
The workshop’s title – The Wolfenbüttel People’s Library – immediately reveals its central focus: an… ...
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Marbach, Weimar and Wolfenbüttel – Embarking on the next phase together
For many years, the Deutsches Literaturarchiv (German Literature Archive) Marbach, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and… ...
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IIIF: International interfaces for digitised cultural assets
IIIF (pronounced ‘Triple-I-F’) stands for the International Image Interoperability Framework: a technical standard designed to… ...
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The insides of books and protective wings
What criteria does an object have to meet in order to count as a book?… ...
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Manuscripts from German-speaking lands
The digitisation project ‘Manuscripts from the German-speaking lands’ began at the HAB in December 2018… ...
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Interview with Marshall Weber – awardee of the Artists’ Book Prize 2019
We visited the New York artist in his studio at the Federal Academy for Cultural… ...
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