The Recently Digitised Map Collection of the NL CR

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In cooperation with the Research Institute of Geodesy, Topography and Cartography, the Manuscriptorium has provided access to another part of the map collection in the National Library in Prague. The use of a large-format scanner has made it possible to digitise map sheets in a single image. For this reason, also some of the documents that had already been published were digitised anew, like in 2013. In addition, the maps were georeferenced, which is the first step in the future hyperlinking of map data with texts, cataloguing records and the search system within the development of the Manuscriptorium user environment and integrated external services.
The documents that have been newly made accessible include maps of diverse parts of Europe and Russia from the second half of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. They come from the Prague Lobkowicz Library, for which its founder, August Anton Joseph of Lobkowicz († 1803), acquired for instance a greater part of the Czernin Library and which comprises an extensive collection of aristocratic, monastic as well as private libraries from the turn of the 19th century. Apart from the maps of European countries or individual regions, the recently digitised documents include also war atlases and maps of particular campaigns in the Balkans against the Turks. Considering the wide spatial scope of this collection, it may be assumed the georeferencing of these maps will enable such a method of their publication that will significantly increase their applicability.
 

 

List of documents

LE ROYAUME DE FRANCE en 83. Depart[ement]s Suivant, les decrets. de. 1790 W0054500; E0110200; N0514600; N041530062 A 000169; Národní knihovna České republiky; Praha; Česká republika
GEOMETRICAL SURVEY OF THE ENVIRONS OF TOULON E0054443; E0060335; N0431217; N043024362 A 000173; Národní knihovna České republiky; Praha; Česká republika
De VII. Vereenigde Nederlandsche Provincien E0031158; E0072402; N0533703; N051120562 A 000183; Národní knihovna České republiky; Praha; Česká republika
No. I. Jonction de la mer Adriatique à la Culpa = E0142557; E0153502; N0453859; N045100762 A 000188; Národní knihovna České republiky; Praha; Česká republika
No. II. Jonction de la Drave a la Save = E0154801; E0163254; N0462201; N045415962 A 000189; Národní knihovna České republiky; Praha; Česká republika
No. III. Jonction du Waag au Poprad = E0190748; E0205457; N0493058; N048584962 A 000190; Národní knihovna České republiky; Praha; Česká republika
No. IV. Jonction du Poprad et du Dunajetz aux deux Wisloka = E0203700; E0222100; N0501400; N049090062 A 000191; Národní knihovna České republiky; Praha; Česká republika
No. V. Jonction de la Sann et du Bug au Niester = E0223700; E0243900; N0501400; N049140062 A 000192; Národní knihovna České republiky; Praha; Česká republika
[Russland] E0205400; E0422800; N0600600; N045280062 A 000198; Národní knihovna České republiky; Praha; Česká republika

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