Department of Early Printed Books
Union Catalogue of Books Printed in the German Speaking Territories in the 16th Century
The “VD 16“ serves as Germany’s retrospective national bibliography for the period 1501 to 1600. It aims at recording all books that were published in the German speaking territories, with the exception of broadsides, maps and printed music.
The VD 16-database currently records about 110,000 works with information on holdings of more than 300 libraries. 28,700 relevant works of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin have been entered up to now (as of May 2016).
