Objects from Departments

The following list contains catalogues accessible online in which you can search for objects from the Departments.
Further indications can be obtained on the pages dealing with the individual Departments.

Old books (from 1501 on)

Catalogue 1501 - 1929

Old prints, books, newspapers, periodicals published in the years 1501 to 1929 that were acquired before 1992.

Catalogue from 1992 on

Works acquired from 1992 on.

Autographs, manuscripts, estates

HANNA Catalogue

Documents the estates and autographs acquired since about 2000 in the Department of Manuscripts and Old Books, the Department of Music, the Austrian Literary Archives, the Department of Broadsheets, Posters and Ex Libris, and the Department of Planned Languages and Esperanto Museum. In addition, the holdings (from 1550) that were not listed in the Catalogue of Old Autographs of the Department of Manuscripts have been recorded retrospectively, as have been the medieval and modern-period manuscripts that are not listed in catalogues of volumes.

Catalogue of Old Autographs in the Department of Manuscripts

It documents autographs from the 16^th to 20^th centuries. Please check also in the ÖNB-HANNA-Catalogue.

Manuscripta Mediaevalia (Medieval Manuscripts)

Hand-written holdings of the Austrian National Library.

Pictures, photographs...

Picture Catalogue

Research on the 1.4 million pictorial data in the Picture Archives of the Austrian National Library.

Picture Archives Austria

Digitised pictures on contemporary history from the holdings of the Austrian National Library, the historical archives of ORF, of the Association for the History of the Workers’ Movement, and the archives of the Austrian Society for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna.

Incunabula (prints before 1501)

Census of Incunabula

Documentation of the holdings of the incunabula collection of the Austrian National Library, and of incunabula held in all Austrian libraries, monasteries, and private collections (incunabula are prints done before 31.12.1500).

Maps

Maps: Catalogue from 1992 on

The entire holdings of maps (old and new maps) in the Department of Maps is documented in the “Catalogue from 1992 on”. You will recognise the maps in the result list by the icon MAP (left of the page title).

Musical items – hand-written music texts, music prints, sound recordings...

Catalogue of the Department of Music

Historical catalogues of music prints, sound recordings, and estates from the Department of Music. New acquisitions you will find in the “Catalogue from 1992 on” and the “HANNA Catalogue”.

Catalogue from 1992 on

Contains about 6,000 music prints, sound recordings, and secondary literature on music.

ÖNB-HANNA-Catalogue

Documents estates and autographs acquired since 2000 by the Department of Music and other Departments of the Austrian National Library.

Papyri

Catalogue of the Department of Papyri

A list of the published holdings of the Department of Papyri with information on the objects and relevant illustrations.

Posters

Posters of the Austrian National Library

The entire holdings of posters in the Department of Broadsheets, Posters and Ex Libris up to 1950 / 1990 (without copies, in total more than 30,000 posters), various special holdings as well as about 2,000 postcards from the First World War.

Posters on National Assembly elections 1919 - 1930

The association “Kulturmanufaktur”, in cooperation with the Austrian National Library, presents on an interactive CD a catalogue with over 500 posters on the elections to the National Assembly in the years 1919, 1920, 1923, 1927 and 1930 from all relevant poster collections in Vienna.