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The Art and Science of Illuminated manuscripts” shows a collection which ranges from the prayer books of European royalty and merchants to local treasures like the Macclesfield Psalter, from an alchemical scroll and a duchess’ wedding gift to the ABC of a five-year old princess. The digitised core inventory of approximately 3,000 manuscripts is now available to everyone over the Internet.Īll digitized manuscripts can be found here.Ĭolour: The Art and Science of Illuminated #Manuscripts on display at Fitzwilliam’s in #Cambridge FitzMuseum_UKĬAMBRIDGE (UK) – A new exhibition in Cambridge, UK celebrates the Fitzwilliam Museum’s 2016 bicentenary with a stunning display of 150 manuscripts from its rich collections – many on display for the first time. It therefore remains of great interest for a number of academic disciplines. As a universal library, it contains not only theological, philological, philosophical, and historical works but also medical, natural history, and astronomical texts. At the beginning of the 17th century, it was known as “the greatest treasure of Germany’s learned”. With the exception of the German-language codices, which were permitted to return to Heidelberg in 1816, the Palatina remains a foundation of the Vatican Library in Rome. For nearly 250 years, it had grown from two sources – the royal collections of the Heidelberg Castle and the libraries of Heidelberg University founded in 1386. The Bibliotheca Palatina had a long history even before Pope Gregory XV confiscated it in the Thirty Years’ War and transferred it to the Vatican in 1623. “For us, the virtual reunification of the German and Latin Palatina manuscripts is a dream come true,” emphasises Dr Veit Probst, Director of the Heidelberg University Library. Thanks to the Foundation’s financial support, a University Library digitisation studio was set up in the Vatican to capture the Latin codices. The Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation supported not only the digitisation of the German-language manuscripts in Heidelberg.

“We are extremely grateful to our Honorary Senator for funding this ambitious idea,” says Heidelberg University President Prof. To this end, Heidelberg University and the Vatican established a cooperation extending over several years. The technical capabilities of digitisation and the Internet gave the University Library the opportunity to reunite this “treasure of Western culture”, now split between Rome and Heidelberg, into a single virtual library. Photo: University Library Heidelberg Illustrated Latin magnificent codex from the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Rome. Project is sponsored by Honorary Senator of Ruperto Carola, Dr. A ceremony has been held on 15 February 2018 at Heidelberg University to commemorate the completion of the digitisation. The Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation provided the long-term financing that made possible this landmark project in scholarly research.

Heidelberg University Library digitised not only the German manuscripts in its own holdings but also the Latin codices of this “mother of all libraries”, housed in Rome for nearly 400 years within the walls of the Vatican Library, the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. HEIDELBERG (GERMANY) – After centuries of separation, one of the most valuable collections of manuscripts from the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age – the Bibliotheca Palatina – has been virtually reunited.