Description of handwritten entries in early modern writing calendars (Schreibkalender) for an online reference work, c. 1540-1800

该项目的重点是每年出版的德国早期现代书写日历(Schreibkalender)，它是大量生产的，吸引了非常多的受众。虽然Schreibkalender是欧洲德语地区当代媒体的特色部分，但从1540年开始，它既是复杂和专门的出版和印刷过程产生的纸质材料艺术品，也是一份手写互动文件。在其典型的两折内容“天文馆”(包含天文信息和占星学细节)和“预言家”(包含更长的历史、政治和宗教主题的故事)中，为所有者/读者提供了个人评论、观察和评论的空间。这些主要是未知的手写部分可以在大约5900个日历中找到，总而言之，这使得Schreibkalender成为许多历史背离的非常丰富的来源。该项目建立在DFG(自2002年以来)资助的四个已完成项目的基础上，使用了从1540年至1800年各种Schreibkalender的14.500多份已知副本，目的是使这些资料在历史上可见、记录在案并可在网上查阅。该项目的目的是系统地搜索尚未接触的档案收藏(Staats-、Landes-和Adelsachven)中带有手写部分的书写日历，并使这些日历可以在一个在线可访问的数据库中查看。从长远来看，该项目的数据库旨在保证该数据库今后发展成为一项更大的参考工作，以便对所有形式的印刷日历(按作者、出版商、书名、印刷地点、印刷数量和版本等进行整理)进行系统的记录和分析。因此，这个项目将自己理解为1800年前在讲德语的欧洲出版的所有日历的在线参考工作的试点项目。在该项目在线参考工作的基础上，印刷日历的第一部历史似乎是可能的，这是有待编写的早期现代通信史的重要组成部分。

The project focuses on the annually-published German writing calendar (Schreibkalender) of Early Modern Times that was produced in high quantities and reached very large audiences. While being a charactertistic part of the contemporary media ensemble in the German speaking lands of Europe, the Schreibkalender was from its beginning in 1540 both a paper-based material artefact resulting from complex and specialized publishing and printing processes and a document of handwritten interaction. Within its typical two-folded content of “Kalendarium” (containing astronomical information and astrological details) and “Prognostikum” (containing longer stories on historical, political and religious topics) the owner/reader was offered space for individual remarks, observations, and comments. These mainly yet unknown handwritten parts are to be found in about 5900 calendars and in sum make the Schreibkalender a very rich source for many historical departures. This project builds on four completed projects funded by the DFG (since 2002), uses more than 14.500 known copies of various Schreibkalender from 1540-1800, and aims to make these sources historiographically visible, documented and online accessible. The aim of the project is to systematically search for writing calendars with handwritten parts in yet untouched archival collections (Staats-, Landes- and Adelsarchiven), and make these calendars visible in an online accessible database. In the long run, the project’s database is designed to guarantee a future development of the database into a bigger reference work for a systematic documentation and analysis of all forms of printed calendars (organized by authors, publishers, titles, printing places, information on print runs and editions, etc.). Therefore, this project understand itself as a pilot project for an online reference work of all calendars published before 1800 in German speaking Europe. Building on the project’s online reference work, a first history of the printed calendar, as an important part of a to be written history of early modern communication, seems possible.