Bibliotheca Rudolphina. Music collection of Legnica-Brzeg’s prince Jerzy Rudolf
(time of completion: 27.10.2014 - 13.03.2015)
In October 2014 the Wroclaw University Library signed an agreement with the Wroclaw Cameralists Cantores Minores Wratislavienses regarding a joint project under the name of the Bibliotheca Rudolphina.
The aim of the project, funded under the Multiannual program for Government Culture+/Digitization, is digitization of old prints and music manuscripts form the historical library of the Legnica-Brzeg’s prince Jerzy Rudolf:
Wroclaw University Library undertook, as part of the project, two tasks:
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digitization of the musical manuscripts and old prints from the Rudolphina’s collection, both from Library’s own collection, as well as from the collection of the Society of Friends of Sciences in Legnica (task was completed in the period from 27.10.2014 to 15.12.2014) and
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publication of the digitized materials in the Digital Library of Wroclaw University in the sub-collection "Bibliotheca Rudolphina" (task was completed on 13.03.2015). Moreover, all digitized items were supplemented with substantive descriptions by the employees of the Library and are accessible online via the Digital Library of Wroclaw University.
The aim of the project is to make free available seventeenth-century Silesian music collection of exceptional importance for scholars of European musical culture. Wroclaw Cameralists also organized series of concerts, during which - after a few hundred years - previously unknown, outstanding works of Renaissance music art have been presented. Their recordings (on 6 CDs) are planned to be distributed to the world's most important libraries. The project will benefit all partners. The Library of the Society of Friends of Sciences in Legnica will obtain digital copies of priceless musical items that are stored there, Wroclaw Cameralists - scores materials for the next concerts, and the Wroclaw University Library will enrich itself with the scans of the items from one of the most valuable Piast’s music libraries.