Adress Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Abteilung Historische Drucke Unter den Linden 8 10117 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 - 266 436666 Tel. +49 30 - 266 436667 raralesesaal@sbb.spk-berlin.de Opening Hours Mon - Fr: [...] successor of the Berlin University Library ’s reading room which was situated right here from 1905 to 1945 (former Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität , today Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). Four ionic columns [...] Handschriftenlesesaal . Please contact hhd@sbb.spk-berlin.de . Service Search The Staatsbibliothek’s holdings of old and rare books can be found in the online catalogue StaBiKat . For searches by subject please

of our manuscript holdings. Haus Unter den Linden Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Manuscripts Department Unter den Linden 8 D-10117 Berlin Phone: +49 30 266 435001 Fax: +49 30 266 335001 Manuscripts Department [...] Its first librarian was Johann Raue (1610-1679) , Professor at the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin and School superintendent of the March of Brandenburg. In 1668 he created the first "Catalogus M [...] on the current depository and availability of a manuscript as well as links to digitized items and online-descriptions. For a growing number of our manuscripts you can get information on their content, dating