Europeana Regia
Summary: Europeana Regia aimed at creating a European corpus of digitised mostly illuminated manuscripts, testimonies of the circulation of texts and art in Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, with a focus on the beginning of European culture in the Carolingian time. With the support of the European Commission, it was possible to digitise over 1 100 documents.
Type of Project: The documents came from three original sources – the manuscripts of the Bibliotheca Carolina, the Library of Charles V and Family and the Library of the Aragonese Kings of Naples.
Countries Involved: 4
Website: http://www.europeanaregia.eu/
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Description
Europeana Regia aimed at creating a European corpus of digitised mostly illuminated manuscripts, testimonies of the circulation of texts and art in Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, with a focus on the beginning of European culture in the Carolingian time.
It concerned three most important sets of mediaeval and Renaissance manuscripts:
- The Bibliotheca Carolina,
- The library of Charles V of France,
- The Library of the Aragonese Kings of Naples, now separated between four main depositories in France, Italy, Spain and Great Britain.
With the support of the European Commission, more than 1 100 manuscripts have been virtually assembled (digitized and described) to reconstruct a page of European heritage and made available both to researchers and the general public via the Europeana platform.
Partners
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, France
- Bibliothèque royale de Belgique – Koninklijke Bibliotheek van Belgie, Belgium
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Germany
- Herzog August Bibliothek (Wolfenbüttel), Germany
- Universitat de Valencia, Spain
Duration
- 2 years (2010-2012)
Access to Data and Documents
Available for consultation on an on line catalogue.
Available for reuse for free.
Volumetry
1 149 digitised documents, 383 000 digitised pages.