Projects
The historical holdings of the Herzog August Bibliothek form a collection of European culture from the early Middle Ages to the Enlightenment and beyond that is unique in breadth and depth. Manuscripts, incunabula and prints as well as graphics and paintings, maps and modern artists' books offer a variety of starting points for cataloguing, editing and research projects. The proven hermeneutic approaches of the humanities are complemented and supported by innovative methods of the digital humanities.
The Herzog August Bibliothek in 100 objects
The collection of the Herzog August Bibliothek is not solely made up of manuscripts and books. It also includes hundreds of other objects, which, like ...
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Lessing digital
In preparation for a digital edition of the complete works of Lessing, selected prints of the freemason’s dialogue Ernst und Falk will be edited and ...
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Assets looted by the Nazis among the Herzog August Bibliothek’s acquisitions made between 1933 and 1969
One of the core tasks of museums, archives and libraries is to conduct research into the provenance and historical ownership of their own collections and ...
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Zeugnis geistlicher Naturkunde und Archiv historischer Biodiversität
Das Projekt zielt auf die Digitalisierung, Erschließung und wissenschafts- wie kulturhistorische Analyse des Herbarium Ruperti. Dabei handelt es sich um einen für die Frühe Neuzeit ...
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The libraries and scholarly practices of female rulers in the German-speaking lands in the 18th century
In recent years, researchers have taken an increasing interest in the female ownership of books. However, there has as yet been no large-scale investigation of ...
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DE ANIMA – Digital edition & analysis of a newly discovered Jesuit manuscript
The research project outlined here was prompted by the discovery in the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB) of a manuscript comprising the so-called Compendia of philosophy, ...
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Take Me And Make It Happen!
Practical information on distillation, medicine, dyeing, cosmetics, ceramics, metallurgy and many other topics flooded the book market in the century that followed the introduction of ...
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NFDI4Memory
In November 2018 the German states and federal government decided to establish a Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (National Research Data Infrastructure, NFDI) aimed at systematically accessing and ...
More The Herzog August Bibliothek in 100 objects
The collection of the Herzog August Bibliothek is not solely made up of manuscripts and books. It also includes hundreds of other objects, which, like ...
More Lessing digital
In preparation for a digital edition of the complete works of Lessing, selected prints of the freemason’s dialogue Ernst und Falk will be edited and ...
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Digital humanities in Discuss Data: Building a community space
Discuss Data is an open repository for storing, sharing and discussing research data which goes beyond ordinary research repositories. The aim is to create a ...
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Identity, networks, mobility and cultural transfer in the music-related activities of women between 1800 and 2000
The interdisciplinary project run by the Forschungszentrum Musik und Gender (Research Centre for Music and Gender, FMG) at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien ...
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Materialising Robert Fludd’s alchemical and theosophical concepts
Fludd’s books are notable for their spectacular pictures and sumptuous formats. This project will elucidate the relevance of pictures and artefacts for Fludd’s natural philosophy ...
More Assets looted by the Nazis among the Herzog August Bibliothek’s acquisitions made between 1933 and 1969
One of the core tasks of museums, archives and libraries is to conduct research into the provenance and historical ownership of their own collections and ...
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Grand Tour digital: Digitisation, in-depth cataloguing and visualisation of early modern ego-documents of Grand Tours using partially automated publishing processes
During the early modern period, the Grand Tour and journeys like it were an important educational tool for members of the noble and bourgeoise elites ...
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Philipp Hainhofer’s Großes Stammbuch
This album amicorum dating from the first third of the 17th century is an outstanding collection of signatures and illustrations by preeminent figures and an ...
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Digitisation of the medieval Helmstedt manuscripts
The manuscripts from the former university of Helmstedt (1576–1810), which absorbed both the Bibliotheca Julia and the book and manuscript collection of Duke Julius of ...
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The printed portrait in early modern scholarly culture
In the early modern period, printed portraits were one ‘means of achieving fame in the scholarly world’ (Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn). Their combination of image ...
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Central register of digitised printed works
Many printed works have already been digitised in Germany – far more than are known about. In order to facilitate access to these holdings, a ...
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Indexing and cataloguing of the medieval manuscripts in the Stadtbibliothek Lübeck
The Stadtbibliothek Lübeck (Lübeck Municipal Library) holds more than 1,700 manuscripts, around 360 of which are medieval in origin. A project funded by the Deutsche ...
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Aristotelianism in Helmstedt
The project focused on Aristotelianism as a paradigm of methodology and knowledge systems which became established at many European universities in the early modern era. ...
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Online collection of prints
The online collection of prints is a follow-on from the ‘Virtuelles Kupferstichkabinett’ (Virtual Print Room) project, which was conducted as a collaboration between the Herzog ...
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Knowledge production at the university of Helmstedt
The university of Helmstedt (Academia Julia) existed for nearly 250 years, and for much of that time it was one of the most highly regarded ...
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Digitisation and in-depth cataloguing of printed material published in the 18th century in the German-speaking areas (VD 18)
VD 18 contains all the printed material published between 1701 and 1800 in German or in the German-speaking areas. The works were identified by means ...
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Automatic image recognition of early modern portrait graphics packaged as an app
Printed portraits from the early modern period (c.1500–1800) constitute a widespread, influential genre. Its subjects are representative of a broad cross section of society, while ...
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Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften
The DH journal Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften (ZfdG) is an innovative research periodical focusing on topics at the intersection of humanities and digital research.
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In-depth cataloguing and digitisation of old maps within the framework of the ‘Verteilte Digitale Landesbibliothek’(VDL)
The goal of the project is to digitise the exceptional collections of historical maps – in the form of both sheets and series – held ...
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Objects of competition: Auctions in the early modern period
In the early modern period, the auction was a standard method of making goods accessible to a wider market and converting them into currency. The ...
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Private prayer books from female monasteries in Lower Saxony: Instrument and interaction
Private prayer books are a means of transcendental communication and interaction. The research categories of ‘Materiality’, ‘Mediality’ and ‘Performativity’ will be used to unlock the ...
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Manuscript portal
In the coming three years, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) will fund the technical development of a national web portal for medieval and ...
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Anton Ulrich: A historical-critical edition of his works
The historical-critical edition of the works of Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1633–1714) is being compiled on behalf of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der ...
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Hybridedition der deutschsprachigen Werke des Martin Opitz
Das auf sechs Jahre angelegte Projekt, das in Kooperation mit dem Hiersemann Verlag erarbeitet wird, schließt pragmatisch an die vorliegenden Bände der Schulz-Behrend-Edition an, richtet ...
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Project to coordinate the advancement of Optical Character Recognition techniques
The coordinated funding initiative for the advancement of Optical Character Recognition techniques (OCR-D for short) studies and describes techniques for automatic text recognition.
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Specialist information service for book, library and information science
The Fachinformationsdienst Buch-, Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft (Specialist Information Service for Book, Library and Information Science, FID BBI) has been under development by the Herzog August ...
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Digital edition and commentary of the diaries of Prince Christian II of Anhalt-Bernburg (1599–1656)
Prince Christian II of Anhalt-Bernburg kept a diary more or less throughout his life. The density and diversity of the information these volumes contain, as ...
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Professorial career patterns in the early modern period
Developing a scientific method for researching university history on research databases available and distributed online
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Complete critical edition of the writings and letters of Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt
This cooperative project between the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities) and the HAB is funded by the DFG. Its ...
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Annotated digital edition of Reiseberichte und Sammlungsbeschreibungen by Philipp Hainhofer (1578–1647)
In the first half of the 17th century Philipp Hainhofer, a native of Augsburg, was the most important art agent and purveyor of political and ...
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Reception-oriented edition of Tauler’s Sermons for the Christian Year
This collaborative project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) aims to publish an extensively annotated, reception-oriented edition of [Johannes] Tauler’s Sermons for ...
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The nuns’ networks: Editing and producing an in-depth catalogue of the letters from Lüne Abbey (c.1460–1555)
The aim of this research project is to create an in-depth catalogue of the correspondence of the Benedictine nuns of Lüne – a corpus of ...
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The globalised world of ‘states’ in the early 18th century
The first series examines over 40 European dominions, the second is comprised of 15 small volumes focusing on kingdoms and countries outside of Europe and ...
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The Pietist empire
The project examines the beginnings of the Protestant mission from a perspective of religious emotions and in terms of a cultural history of millenarian spatial ...
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Marketing knowledge in the early modern era
The Ulm councillor, master builder and collector Joseph Furttenbach the Elder (1591–1667) was one of the most productive authors of his time. Today, his writings ...
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Epistemic change: Stages of early modern alchemy
This Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) project will culminate in a monograph on the knowledge and culture surrounding the history of alchemy in the ...
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Images from the phial
The aim of this project on the history of knowledge, images and media is to examine examples of book covers in order to produce a ...
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VD 17 Unique literature
This project was part of a master plan to digitise the VD 17 catalogue, which aims to convert as much of the literature listed in ...
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Converting handwritten manuscript catalogues held by the Stadtbibliothek Lübeck
The project set out to create a digital edition of non-printed descriptions of manuscripts dating from the early 20th century. To this end it used ...
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Cataloguing the Vitae Pomeranorum personal writings
The ‘Vitae Pomeranorum’ collection in the Universitätsbibliothek Greifswald (Greifswald University Library) brings together 8,000 occasional personal writings from Pomerania dating from the 16th to 18th ...
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Indexing and cataloguing the Latin medieval manuscripts of the SUB Göttingen
In cooperation with the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (Göttingen State and University Library of Lower Saxony, SUB), the Herzog August Bibliothek will undertake an ...
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Indexing and cataloguing the medieval Helmstedt manuscripts
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) has approved a fourth phase of the project to re-index and catalogue the Herzog August Bibliothek’s medieval manuscripts ...
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Indexing and cataloguing the illuminated manuscripts of the Herzog August Bibliothek
The project to index and catalogue the illuminated manuscripts of the Herzog August Bibliothek aims to create an in-depth catalogue of all ornamented manuscripts according ...
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Early modern scholarly libraries
There is a consensus among scholars researching the early modern era that private book collections are particularly valuable as resources. Scholarly libraries are places for ...
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‘The Fruitbearing Society’ – the German Academy of the 17th century
The research and edition project focusing on the Fruitbearing Society (1617–1680), sponsored by the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig (Saxon Academy of Sciences and ...
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Works of sacred lyrics by the Baroque poet Johann Rist
Johann Rist (1607–1667) was an extraordinarily productive literary figure and pastor based in the north German town of Wedel. He is regarded as one of ...
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Doctoral programme: Stores of knowledge and sources of reasoning
A collection of books deserving of the name ‘library’ is always more than just a random pile of books. One can view a library as ...
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Images of authors in the early modern period and their social and epistemic productivity
Portraits of authors are part and parcel of our contemporary visual culture. Yet these portraits were by no means invented at the same time as ...
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‘Righteousness and Peace Kiss Each Other’
Europe’s early modern period was marked by a number of wars or warlike acts. More than 2,000 peace treaties were signed during this era.
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The revolution in communications in the early modern age allowed scholars to correspond with others all over Europe. The result was an international, knowledge-based social ...
More Emblematica Online
Emblematica Online was a collaborative project between Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Its goal was to facilitate the ...
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Early modern ego-documents in the Herzog August Bibliothek
Ego-documents are usually autobiographical texts such as diaries, autobiographies, curriculum vitae, almanac journals, family chronicles and travelogues.
More Marquard Gude (1635–1689) and his manuscripts
Over the course of his rather short lifetime, Marquard Gude (1635–1689) travelled extensively and invested considerable zeal and a huge amount of money in order ...
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Media history of the Psalms
A sub-project of the research project ‘Text and Frame: The Presentation of Canonical Works.’ Conducted by the Marbach-Weimar-Wolfenbüttel Research Association (MWW)
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In-depth cataloguing of sources in the Herzog August Bibliothek on the history of alchemy
The goal of the project was to create a bibliographic record of printed works in the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB) relating to alchemy and the ...
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Indexing and cataloguing the Juleum holdings of printed works from the former Helmstedt university library
Helmstedt university library was established in 1576 at the same time as the university itself and boasts a long and eventful history. After 1613, the ...
More Economy and utopia
The immense significance of agriculture for the economy in the early modern period is reflected in the extensive writings on the subject from the 16th ...
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‘Marrying Cultures: Queens Consort and European Identities 1500–1800’
The research programme ‘Cultural Encounters’ funded by EU partners encompassed 18 projects. The HAB participated in one of these.
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Spinoza bibliography online
The Spinoza bibliography is intended as a resource providing a record of literature by and on Spinoza that is as comprehensive as possible. In addition ...
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Digitising the medieval manuscripts in the Ratsbücherei Lüneburg
The medieval manuscripts in the Ratsbücherei Lüneburg (Lüneburg’s 600-year-old Town Council Library) constitute the largest municipally owned collection of its kind in northern Germany. In ...
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VD 17 mainstream literature
This project was part of a master plan to digitise the VD 17 catalogue, which aims to convert as much of the literature listed in ...
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Philipp Hainhofer
Art entrepreneur Philipp Hainhofer (1578–1647), a native of Augsburg, was one of the most significant early 17th-century figures north of the Alps in terms of ...
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In cooperation with the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (Göttingen Academy of Sciences, AWG), the Archäologisches Institut at the Universität Göttingen, the Göttingen Centre for ...
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In-depth cataloguing of the correspondence of Johann Valentin Andreae (1586–1654)
Johann Valentin Andreae (1586–1654) was an unusually colourful figure among scholars of theology in the first half of the 17th century. He was not only ...
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Printed works from Helmstedt online
The project’s objective was to digitise images and complete texts of the works printed in Helmstedt that are now in the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB). ...
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The Bernward psalter and the library of St Michael’s monastery in Hildesheim
In 2007 the Herzog August Bibliothek succeeded in acquiring the Bernward psalter, a manuscript commissioned by Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim (993–1022) and executed by the ...
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Genealogical Forests
In the early modern period, European political, social and cultural systems were largely determined by individual royal houses and the complex relationships between the dynasties.
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Handbuch frühneuzeitlicher Grammatiken
Latein war das Fundament der Schulbildung der Frühen Neuzeit. Wie sahen die Lateingrammatiken der Renaissance aus? Welche Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede gab es zwischen ihnen? Was ...
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Nikolaj Karamzin (1766-1826)
Before Alexander Pushkin burst onto the scene, Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin was a unique embodiment within Russian culture of a pro-European disposition. This first German biography ...
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Europeana Regia
The purpose of Europeana Regia was to create a European corpus of digitised manuscripts – all of them furnishing impressive testimony of writing and art ...
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A virtual collection of prints
The Virtual Collection of Prints was a joint project of the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB) in Wolfenbüttel and the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum (HAUM) in ...
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In-depth cataloguing of the painting collection at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
The Herzog August Bibliothek’s painting collection comprises 160 paintings, making it one of the most significant collections in what was once the Principality of Brunswick. ...
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Martin Opitz von Boberfeld (1597-1639)
Martin Opitz is a key figure in German literary history. In promoting most genres of European Renaissance literature in Germany he provided paradigms that influenced ...
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The Katalog der graphischen Porträts in der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel: 1500–1850 was published between 1986 and 2008 by Saur Verlag in Munich. The appearance ...
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Manuscript documentation
The project was conducted between 2005 and 2007. Its purpose was to create a database that would make it possible to access a bibliography of ...
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This catalogue of contemporary printed works by and on Luther from 1513 to 1546 (not including editions of the Bible) was published as part of ...
More Musical literature in the discourse of the Enlightenment
The project looked at the relationship of music to the movement known as the Enlightenment, which encompassed all areas of knowledge and everyday life. It ...
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Leibniz resources in digital form
The early years of modern scholarly thought and activity in the second half of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th century ...
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Indexing and cataloguing the Ius-Commune-Bibliothek at Osnabrück university library
There are many holdings still lying dormant in institutions in Lower Saxony. Inadequate cataloguing means that until now they have been largely or completely unknown ...
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In-depth cataloguing and digitisation of the HAB’s ‘reserve’ graphics collection
The project is focused on the in-depth cataloguing and digitisation of the HAB’s collection of graphics.
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Finding aid for official calendars and handbooks of the Holy Roman Empire
The project aims to construct a retrospective bibliography of official registers of personnel in the Empire as a whole and in each of its institutions ...
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Indexing and cataloguing the Halberstadt manuscripts
The Historisches Stadtarchiv (Historical Municipal Archive) of the town of Halberstadt contains 39 medieval and early modern manuscripts. The Halberstadt Domschatz (Cathedral Treasury) holds another ...
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Digital edition of the manuscript Cod. Guelf. 64 Weiss.
As part of the programme ‘Research and exemplification of innovative digital techniques for presenting and editing medieval manuscripts’, the manuscript Cod. Guelf. 64 Weiss. was ...
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Thesaurus eruditionis
The aim of this project was to set up a collection of digital reference works containing frequently used textbooks and reference works of the early ...
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The Enlightenment in Russia
The term просвеще́ние (enlightenment) was already used in medieval Russia to denote divine illumination. In the second half of the 18th century it took on ...
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The Helmstedt professor’s household, 1576–1810
Following the Reformation, professors at Protestant universities started holding up marriage as a new ideal. It became a way for university lecturers to demonstrate their ...
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Theatrum literature of the early modern period
The goal of this cooperative project between the Institute for German Studies at the Universität Kassel and the Herzog August Bibliothek is to digitise and ...
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Cultural transfer and links between cultures in the early modern period
This project seeks to account for the changes that have occurred in how we view cultural transfer and the links between cultures as well as ...
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Medication and confectionary
The aim of the project is to give a precise overview of the activities and networking undertaken by an apothecary’s shop in the early modern ...
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In-depth cataloguing of the subjects covered in Johann Heinrich Zedler’s Universal-Lexicon
Johann Heinrich Zedler’s Universal-Lexicon, which this project set out to catalogue in-depth for the first time on a subject-by-subject basis, is by far the largest ...
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From 2003 to 2006, the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB) digitised and undertook in-depth cataloguing of the content of 667 incunabula as part of the ‘Distributed ...
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dünnhaupt digital
The project set out to digitise approximately 2,000 works drawn from Gerhard Dünnhaupt’s Personalbibliographien zu den Drucken des Barock (Stuttgart 1990–1993) as well as selected ...
More Lessing portal
The body of translations by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing encompasses roughly 40 heterogeneous titles and 7,000 printed pages. They range from plays and essays, short stories, ...
More Database for Gothic binding stamps
In its capacity as the medieval manuscripts centre for northern Germany, the Manuscripts Department of the Herzog August Bibliothek has spent more than 30 years ...
More Catalogue of 17th-century printed works published in German-speaking areas (VD 17)
The Union Catalogue of Books Printed in German-Speaking Countries in the 17th Century (VD 17) is a retrospective national bibliography for the period 1601 to ...
More The issue of mimesis in literature since the beginning of the early modern era
Francesco Robortello’s first printed commentary on Aristotle’s Poetics published in 1548 lent further credence to the expectation that literature should be mimetic, i.e. that it ...
More Rubens online
This research project about the painter, businessman and diplomat Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) was conducted in cooperation with the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart ...
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This project aimed to undertake more detailed research of the text De inventoribus rerum by Polydore Vergil of Urbino (Virgil).
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The historical method and working process used for the Magdeburger Zenturien
The Magdeburger Zenturien (Magdeburg Centuries, first printed from 1559 to 1574) are the first universal Protestant history of the church.
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AEDit Frühe Neuzeit
The project aimed to create a shared ‘trusted’ repository by bringing together research projects on editions and texts from the early modern era and creating ...
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