I have never "just walked in", be it the ONB in Vienna,
Staatsbibliothek in Munich, St. Peter's Monastery in Salzburg, or the
private Esterhazy library at Schloss Esterhazy in Eisenstadt, so on and
so forth...while the ONB and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek do have a
limit on the number of manuscripts per day, I have never been held to
that either. I have had open access to just about any and all
manuscripts I have wanted to examine (and have seldom if ever been
turned down by a European library to publish a modern performing
edition of a manuscript). In many cases, where the 18th Century
manuscripts have been microfilmed by the library because they were in
poor shape or just to rare, I have been allowed, because of the
distance I have travelled from the US, as well as a track record, to
examine the actual manuscript.
Martin
On Jul 26, 2006, at 11:09 AM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 26 Jul 2006 at 10:26, Martin Banner wrote:
The Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library) in
Vienna has a five manuscript per day limit, but it all depends on who
is at the counter at the moment...
I haven't been there recently, but I found that if you wrote to them
ahead of time and were very specific about what you wanted, they were
extremely helpful and lifted most restrictions. I was even allowed to
go into their back offices to use the light table to trace watermarks
(an unheard of accomodation for a junior scholar, seems to me).
But I doubt I would have gotten any of that help if I had just walked
in off the street and started requesting materials.
--
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David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/
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