Collections
Because of their popular nature, few copies of block books survive today, many existing only in unique copies or even fragments. Block books have received intensive scholarly study and many block books have been digitized and are available on line.
The following institutions have important collections of block-books (the number of examples includes fragments or even single leaves and is taken from Sabine Mertens et al., Blockbücher des Mittelalters, 1991, pp. 355–395, except where a footnote provides another source):
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. 49 examples.
- Bavarian State Library, Munich. 46 examples.
- British Library, London. 44 examples.
- Morgan Library, New York. 24 examples.
- State Museum Kupferstichkabinett (Print room), Berlin. 20 examples.
- John Rylands University Library, Manchester. 17 examples.
- Austrian National Library, Vienna. 16 examples.
- University Library Heidelberg. 12 examples.
- Rijksmuseum, Den Haag. 11 examples.
- Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. 11 examples.
- Lessing Rosenwald collection in the Library of Congress. 10 examples.
- Ludwig Maximilian University Library, Munich. 10 examples.
- Bodleian Library, Oxford. 8 examples.
- Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona. Three woodblocks used to print 16th century block books and one printed bull.
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