Digital Exhibits and Digitized Special Collections

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Digital Exhibits

1913 Armory Show - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MUSEUM/Armory/armoryshow.html

  • provides a useful diagram of the layout of the exhibit and includes illustrations of many of the works exhibited in each gallery


Trésors Carolingiens / Carolingian Treasures - http://expositions.bnf.fr/carolingiens/

  • a digital exhibit to accompany the physical exhibit held from March 20 through June 24, 2007 at the Bibliothèque nationale de France – site Richelieu


Walt Whitman and John Burroughs: Literary Comrades - http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/exhibits/burroughs_whitman/

  • a digital exhibit to accompany the physical exhibit to be held January through May 2008 at Vassar College Libraries Archives and Special Collections


Digitized Special Collections


Codices Electronici Sangallenses (Digital Abbey Library of St. Gallen) - http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en/

  • a virtual library of 130+ Medieval codices


Bayerische StaatsBibliothek CodIcon - http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/codicon/start.html

  • digitized collection of manuscripts with little or no text, but valuable illustrations for various disciplines


Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago - http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/cdm4/index_jfabc.php?CISOROOT=/jfabc

  • close to 5,000 artists' books, multiples, video and audio recordings, periodicals, digital works, reference books, ephemera, exhibition catalogs, and examples of experimental art practices


Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection, at the Univeristy of Toronto - http://link.library.utoronto.ca/hollar/

  • over 2500 individual etchings of Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677), plus full-text reproductions of some of the 100 published works in the collection which contain original Hollar prints


Nuremberg Chronicles 1493 Latin edition:

http://www.polona.pl/Content/2923/8728_Liber_chroni.html


Nuremberg Chronicles Incunabula editions in German:



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