Project description Digital Libraries: European Digital Library Digitising content for Europeana Show the project objective Hide the project objective Europeana Regia is a collaborative project, which aims to create a European corpus of digitised mostly illuminated manuscripts, testimonies of the circulation of texts and art in Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, with a focus on the beginning of European culture in the Carolingian time.It concerns three most important sets of mediaeval and Renaissance manuscripts :-\tmanuscripts from the times of Charles the Great and his successors (780-900 ca), copied and often illuminated in monasteries straightly linked with royal or imperial power-\tthe manuscripts from the library of king Charles V of France (r. 1364-1380), which were mainly kept in the Librairie du Louvre-\tthe collection of Aragon kings of Naples, now separated between four main depositories in France, Italy, Spain and Great Britain – without any doubt one of the most precious libraries from the end of the 15th century.It will represents a total of 670 manuscripts, more than 240 000 images.It associates several important public, university and national libraries, holding a specific part of the European cultural heritageFor the first time, Europeana Regia will thus make accessible a significant part of these most precious testimonies of our cultural heritage accessible for European citizens through Europeana. Programme(s) CIP - Competitiveness and innovation framework programme (CIP)(2007-2013) Topic(s) CIP-ICT-PSP.2009.2.3 - European Digital Library – Digitising content for Europeana Call for proposal CIP-ICT-PSP-2009-3 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme PB - Pilot Type B Coordinator BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE EU contribution € 605 000,00 Address QUAI FRANCOIS MAURIAC 11 75013 Paris France See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Elisabeth Freyre (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BIBLIOTHEQUE ROYALE DE BELGIQUE-KONINKLIJKE BIBLIOTHEEK VAN BELGIE Belgium EU contribution € 210 000,00 Address BOULEVARD DE L EMPEREUR 4 1000 BRUXELLES See on map Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Bernard Bousmanne (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data HERZOG AUGUST BIBLIOTHEK Germany EU contribution € 218 000,00 Address LESSINGPLATZ 1 38304 Wolfenbüttel See on map Region Niedersachsen Braunschweig Wolfenbüttel Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Christian Heitzmann (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data BAYERISCHE STAATSBIBLIOTHEK Germany EU contribution € 385 000,00 Address LUDWIGSTRASSE 16 80539 MUNCHEN See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart Stuttgart, Stadtkreis Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Klaus Ceynowa (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA Spain EU contribution € 282 000,00 Address AVENIDA BLASCO IBANEZ 13 46010 Valencia See on map Region Este Comunitat Valenciana Valencia/València Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Angeles Sanchis (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
