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Solothurn, Zentralbibliothek, Cod. S II 43, f. 36v – "Historienbibel" from the workshop of Diebold Lauber ('vom Staal-Story Bible')
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Call for collaboration
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Our third “call for collaboration”, published jointly by e-codices and our partner libraries in the beginning of this year, again attracted a great deal of international interest. After the great response to the first call in June 2009 with 97 applications from 33 scholars, and the overwhelming success of the second call in 2013 with 137 applications from 55 scholars, we have this time received 91 applications from 35 scholars.
The scholars again come from a variety of countries: Germany (9), Switzerland (6), United Kingdom (6), the USA (5), Italy (4), France (2), Sweden (1), Armenia (1) und Hungary (1); almost all disciplines of medieval studies are represented.
Proposals were for manuscripts from 18 libraries, an especially large number from the Burgerbibliothek Bern (23), the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (12), the Universitätsbibliothek Basel (8), but also from three new collections that have not yet been represented on e-codices. Also suggested were six manuscripts from the Abbey Library of St. Gall, where more than half of the collection of medieval manuscripts has already been made digitally accessible. Such continuing demand clearly shows that, despite the great number of manuscripts that have already been digitized, the scholarly interest has by far not been satisfied.
At the same time it should be pointed out that the cooperation of scholars and librarians has resulted in a large scientific input: over the last several years, more than 300 new in-depth scholarly descriptions have been prepared.
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