Rare books of the Bibliotheca Hertziana

Overview

Project duration: 2005 - 2021 Date coverage: 1450 - 1900 Website Contact

A collection of digitized early modern guide books and rare books, mostly important for Art History (ca. 15.000 volumes). There are structural data and high-resolution scans. It is planned to do OCR fulltext with Transkribus for ca. 4000 volumes.

Project partners

Lead partners

BHMPI, Bibliotheca Hertziana — Max Planck Institute for Art History

With financial support by

Max-Planck-Society