6. Januar 2009
e-codices – Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
«What started as a pilot project in 2005 grew sharply last year, when the Saint Gallen project was incorporated into a program to digitize all of Switzerland's roughly 7'000 medieval manuscripts» (The New York Times, October 18, 2008)
- a project of the Medieval Institute of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- accessible at: http://www.e-codices.ch/
- follow-up project of CESG – Codices electronici Sangallenses.
- high resolution digital images: over 138’000 facsimile pages
- regularly updated: now 363 complete manuscripts from 16 Swiss manuscript collections
- new web application
- manuscript descriptions, browse and search functions
- sponsered by the Mellon Foundation and E-lib (Digital Library of Switzerland)
- accessible in German, French, Italian and English
English:
http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en
German:
http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/de
French:
http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/fr
Italian:
http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/it
Kommentare von Daniel Leutenegger