Famous Books 2.8

The Bavarian State Library is renowned as one of the largest and most significant universal libraries globally, housing a collection of incredibly valuable and world-renowned works of humanity's written cultural heritage.

The "Famous Books. Treasures of the Bavarian State Library" app offers a curated selection of these invaluable holdings, featuring 52 remarkable manuscripts, unique incunabula, and rare, precious printed works from both the Western and Eastern worlds.

These treasures are seldom available for public viewing in physical exhibitions. However, this app provides an exceptional opportunity to explore complete digital replicas of these exhibits, optimized for iPad and iPhone users, offering a captivating glimpse into the esteemed collection of the Bavarian State Library.

Users can seamlessly navigate through and extensively zoom into these manuscripts and printed works, from the very first page to the last. Noteworthy examples include the A manuscript of the Nibelungenlied (The Song of the Nibelungs), the eight volumes of the Ottheinrich Bible, editions of the Gutenberg Bible and the World Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel, the Babylonian Talmud, and Wolfram von Eschenbach’s epic poem Parzival among others.