Cataloguing and digitisation of watermarks in early music prints with polyphonic music

巴伐利亚州立图书馆（BSB）拥有16世纪和17世纪最重要的复调印刷音乐收藏之一，共有2,300份。这些都是音乐学突出的来源，其中许多是极其罕见的，从图书馆的创始时期和后来的系统补充。该项目旨在通过早期印刷音乐探索水印研究的新领域。这一组最早的部分，从15世纪末音乐印刷开始到1550年，是这个项目的主题。它包括329份，共901个实体单位。包括唱诗班书籍，曲谱，部分书集，大报和理论。通过系统地编目BSB的音乐印刷品中的水印，将创建一个主要日期来源的参考库存，直至1550年。在项目过程中，水印将被记录、记录、使用热成像技术数字化并编目。该项目的结果将纳入有关的数据库。在丝印学领域，这就是“水印信息系统”（WZIS）。通过WZIS，参赛作品也会自动注册到国际门户网站“伯恩斯坦-纸的记忆”中。在音乐资源领域，RISM-OPAC是全球同类数据库中最大的数据库。由于国际上重要的收藏和持有的规模，BSB的来源特别适合这一目的。这为水印研究开辟了一个新的来源领域。同样，研究结果也为研究音乐印刷的起源、16世纪音乐来源的发行渠道以及工业音乐商业的起源提供了新的依据。

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) owns one of the most important collections of polyphonic printed music of the 16th and 17th centuries with a total of 2,300 copies. These are sources of musicological prominence, many of them extremely rare, from the library's founding period and from the later systematic additions. The project aims to explore a new and hitherto unexplored area of watermark research with the early printed music. The earliest segment of this group, from the beginning of music printing at the end of the 15th century to the year 1550, is the subject of the project. It comprises 329 copies with a total number of 901 physical units. Included are choir books, tablatures, part book sets, broadsheets and theorica. A reference stock of predominantly dated sources is to be created by systematically cataloguing the watermarks in the BSB's music prints up to the year 1550. Within the course of the project, the watermarks will be recorded, documented, digitized using thermographic technology and catalogued. The results of the project will be integrated into the relevant databases. Concerning the field of filigranology, this is the "Watermark Information System" (WZIS). Via WZIS, the entries are also automatically registered in the international portal "Bernstein - The memory of paper". For the area of music sources, RISM-OPAC is central as the largest database of its kind worldwide. Due to the internationally important collection and the size of the holdings, the BSB's sources are particularly qualified for this purpose. This opens a new source segment to the watermark research that has been insufficiently developed to date. In the same way, the results should provide a new basis for research on the beginning of music printing, the distribution channels of 16th century music sources and the beginnings of the industrial music business.