Court Library Aschaffenburg, Regional library in Schloss Johannisburg, Aschaffenburg, Germany.
The Court Library (Hofbibliothek Aschaffenburg) is a public academic library housed in Schloss Johannisburg. Its holdings comprise about 30,000 volumes printed before 1900 and 56,000 after 1900, including 58 manuscripts and 162 incunabula. Among the manuscripts is the Mainz Gospel Book (Codex aureus), made around 1250 and kept here since 1803.
The library's core is the book collection of the Electors of Mainz. Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal had his collection brought to Aschaffenburg in 1794, and Karl Theodor von Dalberg added his own in 1802. In 1803, part of the Mainz Cathedral Library, including books bequeathed by Albrecht von Brandenburg, arrived. From 1814 the library was under Bavarian state administration.
The library keeps the Mainz Evangeliar (Codex aureus), a gospel book made around 1250 and held in Aschaffenburg since 1803; its patron is unknown. The Stiftsbibliothek, on permanent loan since 1962, adds about 25,500 titles, 86 manuscripts and 586 incunabula, including remnants of the Jesuit college library dissolved in 1773.
The library sits inside Schloss Johannisburg and is run as a public academic library for the Untermain region, so it serves readers rather than being a museum room. The Stiftsbibliothek, about 25,500 titles with 86 manuscripts and 586 incunabula, has been on permanent loan to the Court Library since 1962 and is administered by the Stiftungsamt Aschaffenburg. The Hugo-Dingler-Archiv, holding the papers of the philosopher Hugo Dingler (1881–1954), is kept in the same rooms.
The library's oldest treasure is the Mainzer Evangeliar, a golden codex made around 1250 and kept here since 1803. The Hugo-Dingler-Archiv, holding the papers of philosopher Hugo Dingler (1881–1954) and 3,690 works, has been housed in the library rooms since 1980.
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