Research on holdings

Incunabula (Alt-Ink) and the holdings in Rara- (Alt-Rara), CP- (Alt-CP) and Collection of Bindings (Alt-Einb) are removed once a week on grounds of conservation. The day of removal is always Wednesday. Orders that reach us by Tuesday are kept in mind.
Please note that orders that reach us after Wednesday inclusive cannot be processed until the week after.

The incunabula of the Austrian National Library are in the census of incunabula of Austria and shown with the call number necessary for placing orders. For 1,400 titles of the alphabetical list of authors A to B there is the documentation in the incunabula catalogue of the Austrian National Library, with specific references to each incunabula, prepared by Otto Mazal ( ÖNB-Ink vol.1, 2004).

The whole historical holdings of printed works from 1501 to 1929 can be researched in two online catalogues via the Library’s system Aleph: NB-OPAC 1501-1929 consists of data from two historically evolved catalogues – of the Old Word Catalogue and the Old Subject Heading Catalogue – and describes the printed works of the Austrian National Library with the year of publication in the period named.

You will find part of the literature acquired by the Austrian National Library since 1922 with the year of publication from 1501 to 1929 in NB-OPAC from 1992.

The holdings of Sinica (Chinese) are published in a printed catalogue that is to be found in the main reading room, and set out in the form of a card index. Within the framework of a project those holdings of Chinese books, numbering some 3,500 works, are being processed again by autopsy and inserted in the catalogue from 1992.
The holdings of Japonica are also present in the form of a card index.

Catalogues and databases

Inkunabelzensus Österreich

 

ÖNB-Ink

 

NB-OPAC 1501-1929

 

NB-OPAC ab 1992