Digitization Dr. Cordula Franzke Kontakt bpk Bildagentur Karen Tieth Kontakt Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Dr. Carolin Schreiber Kontakt Information and Data Management Dr. Holger Busse Kontakt IT Service

a very rare incunabula printed on vellum from 1487 2005 - Kathrin Raitza - bestowment of 105 Vietnamese books 2004 - Community of heirs of Count zu Lynar - transfer of 380 prints from the Reformation period [...] zoologist Heinrich Dathe, as a gift to the Manuscripts Department 2015 - The Department of Historical Prints received the first part of the estate of the master bookbinder Werner G. Kießig, who died in March [...] stocks 2010 - Corvinus Press, Berlin - bestowment of 52 press proofs for the Collection of Artistic Prints 2010 - Friends of the Berlin State Library e.V. - acquisition of a first-edition of the dramas "Now

the collecting principles, in case there are no print editions; if there are parallel editions, only in selected cases the department acquires both the print and electronic editions. Views of cities and

further developed in the Collection Building Department. The department organises the acquisition of print materials in western languages from different suppliers as well as access to electronic resources

Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Manuscript Reading Room Manuscript Department - reading room You can find the reading room on the 2nd floor. Manuscript Department - art installation in the reading

continually adds to the collections and makes them available for research purposes. All the manuscripts, prints, maps, autographs, bequests and much other material that have ever been incorporated into our holdings

valuable additions and enrichments to the collections. These include individual autographs, historical prints, fragments of bequests, maps and much more besides. One variant of bestowment is the deposit: the

collection focuses on literature and electronic resources related to the humanities. The collection of printed works comprises more than 1.4 million volumes and is available for on-site and at-home use, as well

older German literature and many manuscripts), the Méjan Collection (14,000 volumes, especially early prints) and the Meusebach Collection. By 1840 the holdings included 352,000 volumes and more than 6,000 [...] s were imposed on the acquisition of foreign literature. Holdings in 1939: 3 million volumes of printed materials 360,000 sheet music items 7,400 incunabula 72,000 western, oriental and music manuscripts [...] Further repatriations of the evacuated holdings of the Preußische Staatsbibliothek , particularly of print volumes and manuscripts, took place with the transfer of valuable holdings by the Soviet Union in

the New Collection ( Libri sin. N.S. 1651-2049 ) and was assigned to a title published in 1935. Printed catalogues in bookform for both of these segments do exist, albeit their title entries are partially