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NATIONAL MUSEUM (Prague, CZ) and ICARUS – Results and Perspectives of Cooperation. NATIONAL MUSEUM • Founded in 1818 as a Patriotic Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia from the initiative of some Czech noblemen :. Kaspar Count of Sternberg Fran z Count of Sternberg-Manderscheid
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NATIONAL MUSEUM(Prague, CZ) and ICARUS – Results and Perspectives of Cooperation
NATIONAL MUSEUM • Founded in 1818 as a Patriotic Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia from the initiative of some Czech noblemen: Kaspar Count of Sternberg Franz Count of Sternberg-Manderscheid Franz Count of Klebelsberg
Library of the National Museum • Currently, theLibraryisoneoffivespecializedinstitutesoftheNational Museum. Václav Hanka (1791–1861) first librarian and curator of the historical collections
Archive of the National Museum • Founded 1846 as a separate departmentfrom the iniciative of the historian FrantišekPalacký; • The Archive is currently one of 9 departments of the Historical Museum Karel Jaromír Erben (1811–1870) archivist, historian and poet,first archivist of the National Museum
Archive of the National Museum changed its address several times during the 150 years of its existence 1891 1846 Presentrepository in the former military barracks in Terezín (Theresienstadt), from1997 2004
Archive of the National Museum manages 3 km of archival documents: • the administrative registry of the National Museum from 1818 until present • old historical collections (charters, patent deeds, seals, heraldic, genealogical and topographical collections) • From 1960s the private personal archives are the main aim of the acquisition
National Museum is from January 2012 regular member ofICARUS and participant of the project Monasterium Robert Reiter scanned in November 2012 and January–March 2013 all parchment documents and some related paper charters from 30 record groups of the Archive Terezín, 20. 2. 2013
Fully digitized: 3238 call numbers / 3254 pcs of parchment= 8812 scans; 19 paper charters = 40 scans Ʃ 3257 call numbers / 3273 pcs = 8852 scans Terezín, 20. 2. 2013
The A Parchment Collection • The biggest– 2013 call nr. / 2014 pcs from years [1140]–1893 (4282 scans) • Archivists Milena Běličová (cataloguing of charters) and Klára Woitschová (cataloguing and digitization of hanging seals) • Monography containing catalogue of parchments A until 1526 (726 pc) forseen in 2015 • The catalogue records will be subsequently published on the web www.monasterium.net Perg-A37, the last preserved charter by the Czech king Přemysl Otakar II., 30. 6. 1278
The A Parchment Collection More recent part: 1287 call nr. / 1288 pcs from years 1527–1893 • Contains big amount of obligations, papal indulgence charters and decorative apprenticeships; • Publication in 2017 Perg-A1700, papal indulgence charter, 29. 3. 1745 Perg-A1802, apprenticeship of Joseph Schmidt as a hunter, 20. 3. 1761 (details)
The B Parchment Collection Big format charters: 364 call nr. / 367 pcs from years 1497–1918 (2506 scans) • Monography with catalogue in 2016 • Contains a lot of armorial charters and iigenealogical records Perg-B309, baron estate for Joseph von Beierweck, 22. 9. 1797 (detail) Perg-B234, Genealogy of the family of Johann Prokop Wilhelm Wunschwitz, 21. 7. 1740 (detail)
Sternberg-Manderscheid Large family archive 798 call nr. / 810 parchment charters from years 1152–1783 (1788 scans) • The author of the planed catalogue Monika Gussone from Aachen (Germany) • Publication in 2014/2015 Perg-ŠM2, emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa for the monastery Weißenau, 1. 11. 1164 Perg-ŠM25, Edward III. , King of England for Gerhard V. of Blankenheim, 31. 3. 1339
Singular parchments From further 22 private and family archives and 3 collections 63 pcs = 236 scans • e.g. Herzogenberg, B. Jiruš, Fr. Kaska, Collection of Bohuslav Dušek • Will be published on www.monasterium.net until the end of 2013 The most recent digitized parchment charter – the announcement about the election of Edvard Beneš for president of the Czech Republic, 19. 6. 1946
Family archive Sternberg-Manderscheid • • Philip Christian of Sternberg (1732–1811), elder son of FranzPhilip • 1762 married Augusta of Manderscheid • (1744–1811), • heiress of the domain • Blankenheim • and Gerolstein • The family archive was donated to the National Museum from the inheritance of Franz of Sternberg-Manderscheid (1763–1830)
The cooperation on the processing of the record group S-M begun in 2012 together with: • Landschaftsverband Rheinland – Archivberatungs- und Fortbildungszentrum in Brauweiler-Pulheim, • Förderverein Eifelmuseum in Blankenheim, Nordrhein-Westfalen Partners: • Dr. Hans-Werner Langbrandtner • MonikaGussone The results of cooperation in the next years will show, which records from this record group would be helpful to digitize from the perspective of the European history. H.-W. Langbrandtner and M. Běličová in Terezín, 20. 8. 2012 (boxes with parchment charters)
Contacts: PhDr. Milena BĚLIČOVÁ, Archive of the National Museum milena_belicova@nm.cz