Bavarian State Library - Inventory

Inventory

• c. 9.81 million books
• c. 93,800 manuscripts; the catalogue is the work of librarian Johann Andreas Schmeller (1785–1852).

• Latin (Codices latini monacenses – Clm), c. 17,000 items.
  • Breviarium Alarici (Clm 22501), 6th century
  • Purple Evangeliary (Clm 23631), 9th century
  • Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram (Clm 14000), c. 870
  • Evangeliary of Otto III (Clm 4453), c. 1000
  • Pericopes of Henry II (Clm 4452)
  • Sacramentary of Henry II (Clm 4456)
  • Uta Codex (Clm 13601), c. 1025
  • Ruodlieb romance fragments (Clm 19486), c. 1050
  • Scheyerer Matutinalbuch (Clm 17401)
  • Carmina Burana (Clm 4660)
  • prayer book of Maximilian I of Bavaria (Clm 23640)
  • the "Munich Manual of Demonic Magic" (Clm 849)

• German (Codices germanici monacenses – Cgm), c. 10,500 items
  • Manuscript A of the Nibelungenlied (Cgm 34); which was inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register in 2009
  • Freising manuscripts
  • Wessobrunn Prayer (Clm 22053)
  • Muspilli (Clm 14098)
  • Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach (Cgm 19)
  • Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg (Cgm 51)

• Greek (Codices graeci – Cod.graec.), 645 items

• Slavic (Codices slavici, Cod.slav.), c. 100 items

• Music manuscripts, c. 37,500 items

• Illustrated manuscripts (Codices iconographici), c. 550 items
  • Fechtbuch of Paulus Hector Mair (Cod. icon. 393)
  • choir books by Orlando di Lasso (Mus. ms. A I+II)
  • Illuminated manuscripts from the Ottonian period produced in the monastery of Reichenau (Lake Constance), which were inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2003

• 59.665 current periodicals (print and electronic ; Europe's second largest holding)

• 20.000 incunabula (the world's largest holding) of around 9,660 incunabula, among them
  • a Gutenberg Bible

• c. 680.000 digitized volumes