HMML Global Operations: Austria
Austria
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Region
Europe -
Country
Austria -
Cities
Admont, Bregenz, Graz, Heiligenkreuz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Klosterneuburg, Kremsmünster, Lambach, Linz, Melk, Salzburg, Seitenstetten, St. Florian, Vienna, Villach, Vorau, Wiener Neustadt, Zwettl, and many others -
Repositories
Austrian National Library; Stift Klosterneuburg; Stift Melk; Stift Sankt Paul im Lavanttal; Stift Sankt Peter, Salzburg; Stift Admont; University of Graz; University of Innsbruck; Tiroler Landesarchiv; Stift Sankt Florian; Stift Göttweig; Stift Kremsmünster; Stift Zwettl; and other university, monastic, and state libraries -
Languages
Latin, German, Arabic, Armenian, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Czech, Dutch, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Slavonic, Spanish, and others -
Project Dates
1965–1973 -
Partners
University Microfilms International
Father Oliver Kapsner, OSB, started HMML’s manuscript preservation work at Kremsmünster Abbey in April 1965. Over the course of eight years more than 30,000 manuscripts were microfilmed at 70 libraries, including the Austrian National Library (c. 14,000 manuscripts) and several large monastic collections: Admont, Göttweig, Klosterneuburg, Armenian Mechitarist Congregation, Melk, Sankt Paul im Lavanttal, Sankt Florian, Sankt Peter (Salzburg). Along with many smaller libraries, larger collections were filmed at the universities in Graz, Innsbruck, and Salzburg, as well as provincial libraries and archives in Graz, Innsbruck, Linz, and Klagenfurt. Materials from all areas of research on pre-modern Europe (and sometimes beyond) were filmed, as well as manuscripts from other parts of Central Europe. Along with several thousand papyrus fragments in Arabic, Coptic, and Greek, HMML also filmed large collections of manuscripts in Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish (Austrian National Library), and Armenian (Mechitarist Library).
