Cataloguing and digitisation of the music manuscripts of the Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg up to the middle of the 17th century

• Applicant: Dr. Klaus Ceynowa
• Subject Area: Musicology
• Term: from 2020 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 442826794

The music manuscripts of the Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg are an important collection with a focus on the Renaissance period.The project aims the best possible documentation and availability of the group of sources with 79 music manuscripts. This includes the conservational analysis, the musicological indexing in the Muscat database with publication via the RISM-OPAC, as well as the complete digitisation and online presentation of the source including a thermographic scan of the watermarks and the cataloguing in the DFG-funded database Watermark Information System (WZIS).

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)