A large number of our manuscripts, prints, maps and portraits are accessible online. The collection is being extended continuously.

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Platforms

Platforms

  • e-manuscripta: manuscript material from Swiss libraries and archives
  • e-codices:medieval and early modern manuscripts from Switzerland

Thematic additions

Collections in e-manuscripta

Music

  • RISM: Works by Hans Huber (1852-1921)

Platforms

  • e-rara: prints from the 15th to the 19th century from Swiss libraries, including several thousand prints from Basel from the 16th century. 
  • map portal

Thematic additions

Exhibitions

  • Sünde der Wissenschaft: exhibition at the University Main Library "Anatomische Bilder vom 15. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert" (2014)
  • paper landscapes: exhibition at the University Main Library "Im Hafen fahre ich zur See - Sebastian Münster und die Welt." (2013)
  • Image library of Jacob Burckhardt: earliest and largest received collection of photographic reproduction by an art historian from the second half of the 19th century.
  • Portraits of Basel personalities