European royal and imperial documents
Medieval History

European royal and imperial documents


he image inventory of the European royal and imperial documents before
1200 compiled by Irmgard Fees and Peter Worm has been updated and
relaunched. You can find the new website at

http://www.hgw-online.net/abbildungsverzeichnis/

In addition to the bibliographic reference of approximately 5.000
documents the inventory links to online reproductions of books and
particularly of the Lichtbildarchiv älterer Originalurkunden at Marburg
University. You can export the entries in an XML format according to the
standard of the Charters Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de).

There is certainly still a lot to do to make the inventory comprehensive
thus any hint to [email protected] is welcome.




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