Meeting of the International Society of Curators of Early Maps (ISCEM)

1. Old maps
in
Moravian Library
Jiří Dufka
Moravská zemská knihovna v Brně
Brno, Czech Republic

2. The maps printed before 1850
 Moll's Collection
 Maps sheets printed before 1850
 Atlases printed before 1850
Some maps are preserved in books and atlases, some maps and most
of the atlases are registered as books.

3. Portolan map (Giovanni Rizzo, 1591)

4. Moll's Collection
 Atlas collected in the 1740s and 1750s
 Includes printed vedutes, maps and drawings (12 000 sheets)
 Preserved original structure
 Preserved original handwritten catalogues in two editions
 Predominantly very good condition

5. Web portal mapy.mzk.cz

6. History of the Moll's Collection
 Collected in 1740s and 1750s
 1780 Bernard Paul Moll died
 1821 donated to the Francis Museum in Brno
 1850s transferred to the library of the museum
 1950 first modern printed catalogue
 2000s electronic catalogue
 2009-2010 digitalization and construction of the mapy.mzk.cz web
portal (also available in English and German)

7. The structure of the collection
1) Atlases
 Atlas Austriacus
 Atlas Germanicus
1) Groups of countries and individual countries (e.g. Burgundian circle,
Austrian Netherlands)
2) Sorted by type (historical maps, maps of the countries, plans and
vedutes of the cities, drawings …)
3) Individual maps

8. Main page of the collection's
website

9. Groups of countries

10. Call numbers for countries

11. Individual maps

12. Manusript catalogues

13. Bibliographical records - positives
 Standardized format (MARC 21)
 Linked with authorities' records for places and for persons
mentioned
 Include data on coordinates
 Notes about former ownership
 OAI-PMH
 Most of them are geo-referenced
 Completely digitalized

14. Bibliographical records - negatives
 Standardised format and cataloguing rules – but incorrectly applied
 Digitalized – but not all pictures were preserved in original format
 Content of the maps was not catalogued
 Definitions of the bounding boxes was not approved
 Dating of the maps was not approved
 Not sufficiently connected with the original catalogues

15. Example of a sheet with vedutes

16. Availability
 Mapy.mzk.cz website
 Licence CC BY-SA (under review)
 Full-resolution images remain for scientific use free of charge
 Geographical search

17. Moravská zemská knihovna v Brně
www.mzk.cz
Jiří Dufka
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