1. Final Conference
Paris, May 31st, 2012
Round Table:
Lessons Learned and Results to Share
Wolfgang-Valentin Ikas, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München

2. 1. Bibliotheca Carolina – relevance and scope:
The project involves masterworks from the main abbeys and
bishop schools of the Carolingian Empire (8th-9th centuries),
including Reichenau, Saint-Denis, Corbie, Reims, Saint-Amand,
Freising, Wissembourg.
The manuscripts show the intellectual and artistic activity of
these centres of religious life, ecclesiastical and imperial power,
and their numerous exchanges of texts and patterns.
The corpus of manuscripts is thus limited by time (approx.
780-900) and space.

3. Sacramentary of Charles
the Bald (around 870),
BnF Latin 1141

4. Book of Gospels of Saint-
Médard de Soissons
(before 827),
BnF Latin 8850

5. Book of Gospels
called « from Xanten »
(early 9th c.),
KBR 18723

6. Collection of astrono-
mical and computistical
texts, Salzburg 818,
BSB Clm 210

7. Gospels of St. Luke and St.
John, presumably Mainz
(late 9th / early 10th c.),
BSB Clm 11019

8. Cassiodorus: Commentarius in
psalmos CI–CL, Wissembourg
(8th - 9th century), HAB Cod.
Guelf. 14 Weiss.

9. 2. The Library of King Charles V of France

10. 3. The Library of the Aragon Kings of Naples

11. The Library of the Aragonese kings of Naples

12. The Library of the Aragonese kings of Naples
BnF MSS Latin 3147
Duns Scotus
Questiones quodlibetales
Nardo Rapicano, il.
Matteo Felice, il.
Naples, ca. 1480
BHUV Ms. 399
Alberto Magno,
De laudibus beate Mariae Virginis
Leo de Sancto Laurentio, cop.
Giocchino de Gigantibus, il.
Castel San Lorenzo, 1476

13. The Library of the Aragonese kings of Naples
BHUV Ms. 720
Francesco Barbaro
De re uxoria
Giovan Marco Cinico, cop.
Cola Rapicano, il
Nápoles, 1472
Fol. 28r

14. The Library of the Aragonese kings of Naples
BnF MSS Latin 7804
Quintiliano,
Institutiones Oratoriae
Petrus Ursuelus, cop.
BHUV Ms. 767
Phalaris,
Epistolas
Maestro de Isabella de
Chiaromonte, cop.

15. The Library of the Aragonese kings of Naples
BHUV Ms. 835
Johannes Tinctoris,
Opus musices
Nardo Rapicano, il.
Nápoles, ca. 1483
BHUV Ms. 52
Giovanni Pontano.
De principe
Giovanni RinaldoMennio, cop.
Cristoforo Majorana, il.
Nápoles, entre 1480-1494

16. The Library of the Aragonese kings of Naples
BHUV Ms. 384
Titus Livius.
De Secundo Bello Punico
Piero Strozzi, cop.
Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora, il.
Florencia, ca. 1479
BHUV Ms. 50
Thomas Bradwuardine,
Gometria speculative
Cola Rapicano (workshop), il.
Nápoles, ca 1495

17. The Library of the Aragonese kings of Naples

18. The Library of the Aragonese kings of Naples
Petrus de Ebolo. De balneis Puteolani
BnF MSS Latin 8161 Cologny, Cod. Bodmer 135 BHUV Ms. 838

19. Some facts and figures
•874 manuscripts to be digitized (according to
the Description of Work)
• = 307,000 images
• Budget amounting to € 3,4 M
• The European grant is 50 % = € 1,7 M

20. Work Packages
Content Leader Person- Begin End
months
WP 1 Monitoring and BNF 40 1 30
management
WP 2 Specification of HAB 15 1 3
metadata
WP 3 Provision, integration HAB 184 4 26
and updating of
metadata
WP 4 Digitization BSB 78 6 28
(supervision)
WP 5 Integration of images BSB 22 9 30
WP 6 Dissemination BNF 26 1 30
TOTAL 365

21. Duration: 30 months = January 2010 – June 2012
WP 1 : monitoring
WP 2 : specification of metadata
WP 3 : provision and updating of
metadata
WP 4 : supervision of digitization
WP 5 : integration of images / quality
control
WP 6 : dissemination
M1 M6 M12 M18 M24 M30

22. Number of manuscripts originally planned to be digitised
MANUSCRIPTS Total
BNF & BM KBR BSB HAB BHUV BL Naples
Carolingian 225 29 114 57 425
BNF: 96 + 5 num
BM:120 + 4 num
+ Lyon, Chantilly
Charles V (Louvre) 154 12 1 167 10
BNF: 143
BM: 11
Aragon kings of Naples 189 1 92 282 23 20
BNF: 179
BM: 10
TOTAL MSS 568 41 116 57 92 874
IMAGES
Carolingian 68296 9914 40996 16128 135334
Charles V (Louvre) 66134 4178 208 70520 5130
Aragon kings of Naples 66806 266 34978 102050 10870 7384
TOTAL IMAGES 201236 14092 41470 16128 34978 307904

24. Number of manuscripts effectively and finally digitised
Additional manuscripts specified by the BnF and the French
BM as early as in 2011: + 14  888 mss.
Additional manuscripts digitised by the BSB so far: + 67
(including a number of fragments)  955 mss.
Additional manuscripts digitised by the HAB so far: + 39  994 mss.
As the BnF and / or other partner are going to digitise an extra portion
as well the sum total is very likely to exceed 1.000 mss.

25. Number of manuscripts finally being part of Europeana regia
170 mss. already contributed by St. Gall Monastic Library
(part of e-codices)
3 mss. contributed by the University Library of Heidelberg
… and maybe also by the British Library …
Finally resulting in more than 1.200 mss. to be presented via
www.europeanaregia.eu !