Bavarian State Library
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The Bavarian State Library (German: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), located in Munich, is the central library of the German state of Bavaria and one of the largest libraries in the German-speaking world.
The library was founded as the "Wittelsbach court library" by Duke Albrecht V, who acquired in 1558 the private library of Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter as a basic stock.
In 1571, Duke Albrecht V purchased the private library of Johann Jakob Fugger, enlarging his own collection by
- ca. 10,000 books, that had been acquired by Johann Jakob Fugger's agents in Spain, Italy and the Netherlands
- manuscripts and incunabula out of the library of Hartmann Schedel, that time one of the most important humanistic private libraries north of the alps.
The library was renamed "Bayerische Staatsbibliothek" in 1919.
Inventory
- ca. 8.8 million books
- ca. 85,700 manuscripts, including:
- * Manuscript A of the Nibelungenlied
- * Freising manuscripts
- * the Carmina Burana
- more than 44,000 subscription periodicals and monographic series (Europe's second largest holding)
- 18,667 incunabula (the world's largest holding), among them
- * a Gutenberg bible
See also
External links
- [bsb-muenchen.de] - Website of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
- [hu-berlin.de] - Lecture of Prof. Dr. Peter Zahn on the history of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (in German)
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