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Discover 3,020,677 Digitized Manuscripts, Prints, Music, Maps, Photographs, Newspapers and Magazines, about 99% of them available via .
The Munich DigitiZation Center (MDZ) has been providing the rich holdings of the Bavarian State Library (BSB) on the Internet since 1997.
It is the central innovation and also production unit of the BSB for developing, testing and implementing new products and processes related to the multifaceted, far-ranging subject of the 'digital library'.
The digitization of the court dress book of Dukes William IV and Albrecht V was completed in February 2024. The 16th century work contains 102 painted costumes and the corresponding descriptions of the court liveries.
To the court dress book in the Digital Collections
In January 2024, the digitization of BSB Cod.icon. 397 a and b with valuable individual paintings by the French painter Simon Vouet (1590-1649) was completed. The individual images are chalk and red pencil drawings, most of which depict people.
To the digital copies of Vouet's drawings in the Digital Collections
In July 2023 the work ' Tabula Palatinorum. Wittelsbach-Pfalzischer Stammbaum von Chlodwig bis zu Kurfurst Friedrich II. von der Pfalz ' by Johannes Basilius Herold from 1556 has been digitized by the Munich DigitiZation Center (MDZ) with the support of the Institute for Conservation and Restoration. Due to format and size of the original (rolled hanging plate; 415x126 cm), several large partial images had to be made. To ensure that the entire family tree, which is rich in detail, is visible in a single image, the partial images were combined into a complete image by means of image montage.
