Selected Recent Additions and Topics of our Digitzation Activities
A selection of recent additions grouped by actual topics of our digitzation activities. See also our latest additions to the Digital Collections.

The Gospels of Henry the Lion (BSB Clm 30055), a masterpiece of Romanesque book illumination of the 12th century.
26.01.2018

100 new newspapers with around 818,000 digitized pages have been added recently to our newspaper portal digiPress. This includes 38 non-German-language titles. [...]
19.10.2017

Books from the Altomünster Abbey (before 1803)
20.09.2017

Newly digitized maps during the last weeks.
23.10.2017

Lots of old lithographic prints have been added to our digital collections during the last weeks.
23.10.2017

We have digitized a considerable number of Hebrew manuscripts during the last weeks (some of them from microfilm)
20.06.2016

Collection of zoological broadsheets and leaflets from the estate of Ingrid Faust.
06.06.2016

Lots of calendars from the 16th century habe been added recently to our collections.
30.05.2016

Karl August Georg Maximilian Graf von Platen-Hallermünde, born 1796 at Ansbach, was a German poet and dramatist. After his quarrel with Heinrich [...]
05.04.2016

Broadsides were one of the most common forms of printed information between the 16th and 19th centuries. They had a great significance [...]
05.04.2016

Otto Reutter was one of the most famous German comedians and coupletists of the 1920s. His work includes numerous stage performances, records [...]
11.04.2016

In the 19th century, when access to art academies was still barred for women, numerous private "art academies for ladies" were formed. [...]
18.03.2016

Some more Maps by Vaugondy have been digitized. Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688–1766), also known as „Le Sieur“ or „Monsieur Robert“, and [...]
11.03.2016

Dances, songs, motets, madrigals and masses - some more precious musical manuscripts from the 16th and 17th century have been added to [...]
11.03.2016

The Zwanglose Gesellschaft (literally: casual/unconventional society), existing since 1837, was founded on the initiative of German poet Franz von Elsholtz in Munich. [...]
07.03.2016

One of the most valuable musical manuscripts of the BSB - the choir book with masses of the Josquin era. Created around [...]
26.02.2016

The so-called Kneipzeitungen (Tableround resp. Convention Newspapers) of the Munich Artist Association Allotria (persisting since 1873) contain lots of satirical or ironic [...]
03.02.2016

Some more Tibetan Book cover from our collection of Asian manuscripts have been digitized recently.
28.01.2016

Newly digitized sheet music written by German composer Franz Lachner (1803-1890) .
25.01.2016

The Meistersinger Societies of the German cities of the late Middle Ages used to collect their songs in self-written codices. The Colmar [...]
23.01.2016

A recent focus of our digitization activities - books about freemasonry, predominantly in German language. Ongoing additions.
08.01.2016

Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688–1766), also known as „Le Sieur“ or „Monsieur Robert“, and his son, Didier Robert de Vaugondy (c.1723–1786), were [...]
08.01.2016

BSB's Subject Catalogue by Martin Schrettinger (1772-1851), the oldest library subject catalog of the world, consisting of 17,000 handwritten sheets from 1819 [...]
17.12.2015

It is one of the most precious treasures of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: the choir book with motets by Cipriano de Rore. After [...]
17.12.2015

This large-sized Latin Bible (1428) is the most important work of a Salzburg studio. The illuminators received many inspirations from very different [...]
16.12.2015

Johann Jakob Fugger (1516-1575), member of the famous Augsburg merchant family, ordered the "Ehrenspiegel" to glorify the House of Habsburg. Clemens Jäger [...]
16.12.2015

Try our Mirador Demonstrator with some medieval manuscripts of the BSB.
09.12.2015

BSB's collection of manuscript tablatures and partbooks up to the 17 century are, in addition to the music printings and the choirbooks, [...]
01.12.2015

Letters of Voltaire (1694-1778) to different recipients - from our collection of autographs
03.09.2015

Letters of Wilhelm V. („the Pious“), Duke of Bavaria (1548-1626) to different recipients - from our collection of autographs
03.09.2015

„Die Leiden des jungen Werthers“ by Goethe, Kafka's „Verwandlung“, „Lulu“ by Wedekind or the „Galgenlieder“ by Morgenstern. Discover more than 30 masterpieces [...]
29.08.2015

It has been almost 500 years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church. [...]
14.07.2015

The Bayerische Hochschulzeitung (Bavarian University Newspaper) was founded in 1919. It reported on major events of Bavarian universities, student life (especially in [...]
28.07.2015

The journal Sionsharfe („Sions Harp“) by Johann Martin Schleyer was devoted mainly to Catholic poetry and became the voice of the constructed [...]
27.07.2015

The dictionary of musical terminology (Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie) (HmT) discusses in detailed monographs the origin and meaning of musical terms.
14.07.2015

A manuscript fragment of the World Chronicle of Jans der Enikel (14th century)
29.05.2015

A small selection of digitized items in the context of the current exhibition
29.05.2015

Letters of Emperor Napoléon I. of France to different recipients - from our collection of autographs
19.05.2015

Prayer book (BSB Cgm 121), [S.l.], 15th century, from our collection of medieval manuscripts
23.04.2015

Release of a new collection: Tibetan Book cover from our collection of Asian manuscripts
13.04.2015

The eastern Central Europe in historical aerial photographs (1942 - 1945 over Brandenburg, East Prussia, Poland, Pomerania and Silesia)
13.04.2015

An elaborately colored print of Martin Luther's Bible (Wittenberg 1560/61)
13.03.2015

An astrological manuscript for King Wenceslas IV of Bohemia, 14th century
16.03.2015

Some more Tibetan Book cover from our collection of Asian manuscripts have been digitized recently.
16.03.2015

Letters of martin Luther from our collection of autographs
19.02.2015

Letters of emperess Maria Theresia from our collection of autographs
19.02.2015

(fragment of an evangelistary), Regensburg/Bavaria, after 1074/ca. 1260
05.02.2015

Letters of Alexander and of Wilhelm von Humboldt from our collection of autographs
21.01.2015

Letters of Kaspar Hauser to different addressees, from our collection of autographs
21.01.2015

Letters of Immanuel Kant from our collection of autographs
21.01.2015

Letters the leader of the Tyrolean rebellion of 1809 Andreas Hofer, from our collection of autographs
21.01.2015

Manuscripts from Freising form the core holdings of the manuscript collection of the Bavarian State Library due to their cultural and historical [...]
12.01.2015

Magnificent book bindings as art objects - book bindings of the western world in gold or silversmith technique
12.01.2015

Magnificent book bindings as art objects - Tibetan and other Asian book cover
12.01.2015