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Psalms platform<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>

The digital platform \u2018Print strategies and forms of use of the psalters from the collections of the Herzog August Bibliothek\u2019 is a project of the Marbach-Weimar-Wolfenb\u00fcttel Research Association (MWW)<\/a>. The platform\u2019s selection of 20 copies in digital form enables researchers to trace the production and reception of early modern psalters. This includes the publishing, material and visual strategies as well as the uses of psalters by Humanists, the inhabitants of monasteries and the Protestant readership.<\/p>

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Early modern scholarly libraries <\/strong><\/a><\/h2>

Private book collections are valuable sources for shedding light on the history of books and personal histories as well as for historical research into knowledge and collections. The portal \u2018Early modern scholarly libraries\u2019 is part of the joint project Authors\u2019 libraries<\/a> conducted by the MWW<\/a>. The portal contains descriptions of 33 listings of books, mainly auction catalogues (1), as well as a digital reconstruction of the library of the dissident bookseller Benedikt Bahnsen (d. 1669) and links to other private libraries from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries for which the Herzog August Bibliothek has compiled digital in-depth catalogues (2). It also offers a digital edition<\/a> of letters<\/u>, which represents the correspondence between Bahnsen and Duke August the Younger of Brunswick-L\u00fcneburg (1579\u20131666).<\/p>

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Early modern ego-documents <\/strong><\/a><\/h2>

The portal lists ego-documents in manuscript form held by the Herzog August Bibliothek, which are identified, personally examined and systematically listed in a digital finding aid<\/a> as part of a project<\/a> (PRO*Niedersachsen) funded by the Nieders\u00e4chsisches Ministerium f\u00fcr Wissenschaft und Kultur (Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, MWK) and with the help of existing printed catalogues of manuscripts.<\/p>

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The Herzog August Bibliothek\u2019s sources on the history of alchemy <\/strong><\/a><\/h2>

The portal enables browser access to the well over 2,000 printed works on alchemy held by the Herzog August Bibliothek. An in-depth catalogue of these works was compiled between 2014 and 2017 in a project<\/a> run by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG). The catalogue divides the works on alchemy roughly into five areas and then classifies them in more detail using a specially developed thesaurus of almost 100 terms, each of which is explained. The portal also provides access to selected full texts, an image browser for alchemic illustrations and a list of persons who appear in the corpus.<\/p>

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Digital edition and commentaries on the diaries of Prince Christian II of Anhalt-Bernburg (1599\u20131656)<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>

This portal, which is in the process of being established, brings together additional information and provides initial assistance in accessing the ego-documents of a Reformed prince from the years 1621 to 1656\u00a0 published by the Wolfenb\u00fcttel Digital Library<\/a>. It contains biographical and genealogical material, a timeline and visual material. All the registries can be searched, and the access point is supplemented with information about how they were compiled. The portal also includes edition guidelines and documentation on the writing practices of Christian II.<\/p>

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Critiques of authority and prince\u2019s counsel: Senior court chaplains in Brunswick-Wolfenb\u00fcttel 1568\u20131714<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>

The portal offers a selection of research texts, sources, visual material and an e-learning programme on the senior court chaplains in the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenb\u00fcttel. These materials have been made available online as part of the project Critiques of authority and prince\u2019s counsel<\/a> in cooperation with the Interdisziplin\u00e4res Institut f\u00fcr Kulturgeschichte der Fr\u00fchen Neuzeit (Interdisciplinary Institute for the Cultural History of the Early Modern Period) at the Universit\u00e4t Osnabr\u00fcck.<\/p>

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Knowledge production at the university of Helmstedt: Research portal on early modern university history <\/strong><\/a><\/h2>

Portal with source material on the former university of Helmstedt that was created in connection with the research projects Knowledge production at the university of Helmstedt: Changes in the philosophical faculty between 1576 and 1810<\/a> and The Helmstedt professor\u2019s household, 1576\u20131810<\/a>.<\/p>

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The German Academy of the 17th century: The Fruitbearing Society<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>

Further information on the project about the Fruitbearing Society<\/a> conducted in cooperation with the S\u00e4chsische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities). Alongside a basic profile of the society, the database also lists all its 890 members. New information emerging from the project\u2019s research and edition work is continually added to the database.<\/p>

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Theatrum literature of the early modern period: The world and knowledge on the stage <\/strong><\/a><\/h2>

The portal provides access to around 200 works in Latin and the national vernacular from the period between 1500 and 1800 that use the metaphor of theatre to construct, model and communicate knowledge. All the works are available both as digital copies and in full-text form. They also contain a finding aid, research literature and a bibliography. The portal was established as part of the project The world and knowledge on the stage: Theatrum literature of the early modern period<\/a> conducted in cooperation with the Universit\u00e4t Kassel.<\/p>

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Cultural transfer<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>

The portal provides rapid, thematically specific access to a number of resources generated by the interdisciplinary acquisitions and in-depth cataloguing project Cultural transfer and links between cultures in the early modern period<\/a>. These include research literature and relevant sources acquired and located in the holdings of the Herzog August Bibliothek. The portal brings together books, essays, online publications and fully digitised copies of sources, which have been catalogued in depth using a system developed by the library. The portal also provides a list of links to other relevant specialist portals, projects and sources relating to cultural transfer.<\/p>

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Virtuelles Kupferstichkabinett (VKK)<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>

The VKK Virtual Print Room presents print holdings in the form of a digital picture archive with extensive search functions. It comprises digital copies and descriptions of prints and drawings from the collections of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum Braunschweig<\/a> and the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenb\u00fcttel. The portal was established as part of a cooperation project<\/a> between the two institutions designed to bring together representative parts of their prints collections in virtual form, including ducal holdings that were originally kept together.<\/p>

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Early modern archaeological finds: A bibliography on the history of archaeology 1500\u20131806<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>

The portal offers bibliographical listings for a canon of printed source texts on the history of archaeology in the territory of the Holy Roman Empire before 1806. The bibliography comprises independently published texts (monographs) and essays that mention archaeological finds in the territory of the Holy Roman Empire (including Switzerland and Prussia). It is the result of the project Early modern archaeological finds<\/u>.<\/p>

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Medicaments and compounds: Medical culture at the Wolfenb\u00fcttel court in the 16th\/17th century<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>

The portal lists items purveyed by the Wolfenb\u00fcttel court apothecary between 1576 and 1706. The medical preparations and substances are catalogued using a standardised vocabulary. The material collection is one of the outcomes of the project of the same name: Medicaments and compounds: Medical culture at the Wolfenb\u00fcttel court in the 16th\/17th century.<\/a><\/p>

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You will find the results of other projects in the HAB\u2019s list of databases<\/a> and digital editions<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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