er final conference - round table: lessons learned and results to share

Final ConferenceParis, May 31st, 2012

Round Table: Lessons Learned and Results to Share

Wolfgang-Valentin Ikas, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München

1. Bibliotheca Carolina – relevance and scope:

The project involves masterworks from the main abbeys and bishop schools of the Carolingian Empire (8th-9th centuries), including Reichenau, Saint-Denis, Corbie, Reims, Saint-Amand, Freising, Wissembourg.

The manuscripts show the intellectual and artistic activity of these centres of religious life, ecclesiastical and imperial power, and their numerous exchanges of texts and patterns.

The corpus of manuscripts is thus limited by time (approx. 780-900) and space.

Sacramentary of Charles the Bald (around 870), BnF Latin 1141

Book of Gospels of Saint-Médard de Soissons (before 827), BnF Latin 8850

Book of Gospels called « from Xanten » (early 9th c.), KBR 18723

Collection of astrono-mical and computistical texts, Salzburg 818, BSB Clm 210

Gospels of St. Luke and St. John, presumably Mainz (late 9th / early 10th c.), BSB Clm 11019

Cassiodorus: Commentarius in psalmos CI–CL, Wissembourg (8th - 9th century), HAB Cod. Guelf. 14 Weiss.

2. The Library of King Charles V of France

3. The Library of the Aragon Kings of Naples

The Library of the Aragonese kings of Naples

BnF MSS Latin 3147

Duns Scotus

Questiones quodlibetales

Nardo Rapicano, il.

Matteo Felice, il.Naples, ca. 1480

The Library of the Aragonese kings of Naples

BHUV Ms. 399

Alberto Magno,

De laudibus beate Mariae Virginis

Leo de Sancto Laurentio, cop.

Giocchino de Gigantibus, il.

Castel San Lorenzo, 1476

The Library of the Aragonese kings of Naples

BHUV Ms. 720

Francesco Barbaro

De re uxoria

Giovan Marco Cinico, cop.

Cola Rapicano, il

Nápoles, 1472

Fol. 28r

BnF MSS Latin 7804

Quintiliano,

Institutiones Oratoriae

Petrus Ursuelus, cop.

The Library of the Aragonese kings of Naples

BHUV Ms. 767

Phalaris,

Epistolas

Maestro de Isabella de Chiaromonte, cop.

BHUV Ms. 52

Giovanni Pontano.

De principe

Giovanni RinaldoMennio, cop.Cristoforo Majorana, il.

Nápoles, entre 1480-1494

The Library of the Aragonese kings of Naples

BHUV Ms. 835

Johannes Tinctoris,

Opus musices

Nardo Rapicano, il.

Nápoles, ca. 1483

The Library of the Aragonese kings of Naples

BHUV Ms. 384

Titus Livius.

De Secundo Bello Punico

Piero Strozzi, cop.

Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora, il.

Florencia, ca. 1479

BHUV Ms. 50

Thomas Bradwuardine,

Gometria speculative

Cola Rapicano (workshop), il.

Nápoles, ca 1495

The Library of the Aragonese kings of Naples

BnF MSS Latin 8161

Petrus de Ebolo. De balneis Puteolani

BHUV Ms. 838Cologny, Cod. Bodmer 135

The Library of the Aragonese kings of Naples

Some facts and figures

•874 manuscripts to be digitized (according to the Description of Work)

• = 307,000 images• Budget amounting to € 3,4 M • The European grant is 50 % = € 1,7 M

Content Leader Person-months

Begin End

WP 1 Monitoring and management

BNF 40 1 30

WP 2 Specification of metadata

HAB 15 1 3

WP 3 Provision, integration and updating of metadata

HAB 184 4 26

WP 4 Digitization (supervision)

BSB 78 6 28

WP 5 Integration of images BSB 22 9 30

WP 6 Dissemination BNF 26 1 30

TOTAL 365

Work Packages

WP 1 : monitoring

WP 2 : specification of metadata

WP 3 : provision and updating of metadata

WP 4 : supervision of digitization

WP 5 : integration of images / quality control

WP 6 : dissemination

M1 M6 M12 M18 M24 M30

Duration: 30 months = January 2010 – June 2012

MANUSCRIPTS Total

BNF & BM KBR BSB HAB BHUV BL Naples

Carolingian 225BNF: 96 + 5 numBM:120 + 4 num + Lyon, Chantilly

29 114 57 425

Charles V (Louvre) 154BNF: 143

BM: 11

12 1 167 10

Aragon kings of Naples 189BNF: 179

BM: 10

1 92 282 23 20

TOTAL MSS 568 41 116 57 92 874

IMAGES

Carolingian 68296 9914 40996 16128 135334

Charles V (Louvre) 66134 4178 208 70520 5130

Aragon kings of Naples 66806 266 34978 102050 10870 7384

TOTAL IMAGES 201236 14092 41470 16128 34978 307904

Number of manuscripts originally planned to be digitised

Number of manuscripts effectively and finally digitised

Additional manuscripts specified by the BnF and the French BM as early as in 2011: + 14 888 mss.

Additional manuscripts digitised by the BSB so far: + 67 (including a number of fragments) 955 mss.

Additional manuscripts digitised by the HAB so far: + 39 994 mss.

As the BnF and / or other partner are going to digitise an extra portion as well the sum total is very likely to exceed 1.000 mss.

Number of manuscripts finally being part of Europeana regia

170 mss. already contributed by St. Gall Monastic Library (part of e-codices)

3 mss. contributed by the University Library of Heidelberg

… and maybe also by the British Library …

Finally resulting in more than 1.200 mss. to be presented via www.europeanaregia.eu !