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Updated: 6 November 2023
Cartographic material, maps and city views. The Historical Library offers an outstanding collection of Flemish, Dutch, Italian and French maps from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries belonging to valuable editions enriched with colored maps and rich bindings with gold decorations.
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Updated: 6 November 2023
Engravings of Dioscorides collection. The Dioscorides Digital Library Catalogue gathers more than 3,100 full text books, as well as an engravings database, indexed according to the subject of the illustrations: 50,000 engravings have been made available online.
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Created: 27 January 2016
Marnix van Berchum
The notion of ‘distant reading’ – introduced by Franco Moretti – gained wide popularity in the emerging field of Digital Humanities. It is interesting to see whether the ideas of Moretti can also be applied to the field of musicology. Stephen Rose and Sandra Tuppen mention Moretti as inspiration for the British library project ‘A Big Data History of Music’.