Duchess Anna Amalia Library / edited by Reinhard Laube ; with contributions from Arno Barnert [and fourteen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laube, Reinhard, editor.

Barnert, Arno, 1973- contributor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

In focus ( Deutscher Kunstverlag)

In focus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek.

Libraries--Germany--Weimar (Thuringia)--History.

Libraries.

Research libraries--Germany--Weimar (Thuringia)--History.

Research libraries.

Germany--Weimar (Thuringia).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Deutscher Kunstverlag ; Weimar : Klassik Stiftung Weimar, [2022]

Summary:

The book tells the story of the archiving and research library from its beginnings in the sixteenth century to the present and takes readers along on a tour of its rooms of collections and knowledge: in the historical library building, the path leads from the Renaissance Hall with the exhibition Cranach?s Torrent of Images, to the Rococo Hall from 1766, and on to the book tower. Via the underground stacks, one arrives at the study center with the central book cube, which was opened in 2005. Thematic contributions present the diverse collections: they look at manuscripts from the time before book printing as well as pamphlets of the Reformation period, the world?s biggest collection of Faust, or the so-called Ash Books, which have been restored since the fire in 2004.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-159).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

German edition

ISBN:

9783422987180

3422987185

OCLC:

1331101621

Publisher Number:

9783422987180