bavarikon4UTreasures in the Studienbibliothek Dillingen
The treasures from the Studienbibliothek Dillingen (Dillingen Research Library) presented here from four centuries represent this institution's history and varied collection structure. Its roots lie in the book collection from the University of Dillingen, founded in 1549 in the course of the Counter-Reformation, the first Jesuit university on German soil from 1563. Dillingen, the second residence of the bishops of Augsburg, has also always housed episcopal book collections. In the course of secularisation and after long periods of confusion, the episcopal court library was finally moved from Augsburg to Dillingen in 1804. The court library and the Jesuit library (university library) were merged during the reorganisation in the first half of the 19th century and comprise about two thirds (20,000 volumes) of the old holdings. Several north Swabian monastery libraries also came to Dillingen as a result of secularisation. There collections were already considerably decimated in part during the selection process on site as well as through duplicate sales in the middle of the 19th century. Today the research library has about 173,000 volumes and 173 current periodicals.
The series of highlights begins chronologically with 17 woodcuts by Hans Burgkmair (1473-1531), all of which depict heads of Caesars. Burgkmair made them as part of a larger, unfinished project commissioned by the famous Augsburg humanist Konrad Peutinger (1465-1547). Two highly important map series are included in the presentation with the world map of Diogo Ribeiro (died 1533) and the "Lafreri Atlas" (1538/1566). From the 17th century there is an anthology with one-sheet prints of the University of Dillingen, portraits of the two university founders, a work with depictions of the most varied types of ships and the play "Otho redivivus" by Georg Stengel (1585-1651), written in honour of the "return" of the bones of the Augsburg Cardinal Otto Truchsess von Waldburg (reigned 1543-1573) from Rome. The most recent highlight is a dactyliotheca dating back to 1753, a collection of about 1,000 prints of mainly antique gems.
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