Cataloguing and inventory

• DFG guidelines for manuscript cataloguing
• Guideline for standardised inventory. Current version 2011 / (Previous version 2004)
• Modern manuscripts, Sven Limbeck at „Zur Praxis der Bearbeitung von mittelalterlichen Handschriften“, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 15.–17. Oktober 2008
• Workshop: Problems of cataloguing German vernacular manuscripts. Leipzig, October 2004
• Layout for catalogue entries for legal manuscripts in the German vernacular
• Round table on questions of method: how to catalogue medieval manuscripts. Stuttgart, 4 April 2003

Digitalisation

• Overview: guidelines for manuscript digitalisation projects  (2018)
• Results: Pilot phase of manuscript digitalisation  (2015)
  => Digitalisation of medieval manuscripts in German libraries: results from the pilot phase (pdf)
  => Digitalisation of medieval manuscripts in German libraries: masterplan (pdf)
  => Advice for proposals: planning the workflow for medieval manuscripts digitilisation (pdf)
• DFG-viewer: standardised terminology for structuring manuscripts  

Further Resources:

• Database for historical book covers
• Grotefend online (HTML-Version, Dr. H. Ruth); Grotefend – digital (Project University of Graz)
• Historical varieties of the German vernacular – an online bibliography
• Watermark database
• Cantus Manuscript Database and Cantus-Index

Superregional manuscript databases (selection):

• manuscripta.at (Medieval manuscripts in Austria)
• e-codices (Switzerland’s virtual manuscript collection)
• Manuscriptorium (Digital Library of Written Cultural Heritage; especially useful for Eastern Europe )
• BVMM (Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux)
• Gallica (Digitalised manuscripts of French collections)
• MMDC (Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections)
• Bibliotheca Neerlandica (Database) and Scans of manuscript descriptions by Willem De Vreese
• Manus OnLine (Database for digitalised manuscripts of Italian libraries)
• Digital Scriptorium (Digitalised manuscripts of US-American collections)
• Fragmentarium (Digital Research Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments)

Learn more about the work of the Manuscript Centres:

• Bernhard Tönnies, Abriss zur Geschichte der Handschriftenzentren (2019)