Link: http://www.europeanaregia.eu/en/historical-collections/bibliotheca-carolina
Project Status: Complete
A project that brings together three collections of royal manuscripts – Carolingian manuscripts, the library of Charles V and family, and the library of the Aragonese kings of Naples – currently housed across Europe at five member libraries. Provides short essays as well as the virtual exhibition “Manuscripts and Princes in Medieval and Renaissance Europe.”
Resource details:
Resource Type: Catalog, Images, Manuscripts/Facsimiles, Searchable Database
License: Must provide credit, No Fee
Modern Language: Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian
Medieval content details:
Dates: 700 - 1600
Subject: Art, Carolingians, Crusades, History, Manuscript Studies, Material Culture, Royalty, Monarchs
Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Advice, Instructional Texts, Biography, Memoirs, Chronicles, Annals, Commentary, Gloss, Exegesis, Hagiography, Letters, Petitions, Literature, Liturgy, Material Evidence, Medical Works, Music, Religious Texts, Scripture, Sermons, Orations, Textual Evidence, Treatises
Geopolitical Region: Europe, France, German Lands, Iberian Peninsula, Italy
Manuscripts are held at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Universitat de València Biblioteca Històrica, the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfensbüttel, and the Koningklijke Bibliotheek van België - Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique.