NATIONAL MUSEUM(Prague, CZ) and ICARUS – Results and Perspectives of Cooperation

NATIONAL MUSEUM• Founded in 1818as a Patriotic Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia from the initiative of some Czech noblemen:

Kaspar Count of SternbergFranz Count of Sternberg-Manderscheid Franz Count of Klebelsberg

Library of the National Museum

Currently, the Library is one of five specialized institutes of the National Museum.

Václav Hanka (1791–1861) first librarian and curator of the historical collections

Archive of the National Museum•Founded 1846 as a separate department from the iniciative of the historian František Palacký;•The Archive is currently one of 9 departments of the Historical Museum

Karel Jaromír Erben (1811–1870)archivist, historian and poet,

first archivist of the National Museum

Archive of the National Museumchanged its address several times during the 150 years of its existence

Present repositoryin the former military barracks  in Terezín (Theresienstadt), from 1997

1846

1891

2004

Archive of the National Museummanages 3 km of archival documents:

• the administrative registry of the National Museum from 1818 until present

• old historical collections (charters, patent deeds, seals, heraldic, genealogical and topographical collections)

• From 1960s the private personal archives are the main aim of the acquisition

National Museum is from January 2012 regular member of ICARUS and participant of the project Monasterium

Robert Reiter scanned in November 2012 and January – March 2013 all parchment documents and some related paper charters from 30 record groupsof the Archive

Terezín, 20. 2. 2013

Fully digitized:3238 call numbers / 3254 pcs of parchment = 8810 scans;19 paper charters = 40 scans

3257 call numbers / 3273 pcs = 885Ʃ 0 scans

Terezín, 20. 2. 2013

The A Parchment Collection

Perg-A37, the last preserved charterby the Czech king Přemysl Otakar II., 30. 6. 1278

The biggest– 2013 call nr. / 2014 pcs from years [1140]–1893 (4282 scans)• Archivists Milena Běličová (cataloguing of charters) and Klára Woitschová (cataloguing and digitization of hanging seals)

• Monography containing catalogue of parchments A until 1526 (726 pc) forseen in 2015

• The catalogue records will be subsequently published on the web www.monasterium.net

The A Parchment Collection

• Contains big amount of obligations, papal indulgence charters and decorative apprenticeships;

• Publication in 2017

Perg-A1700, papal indulgence charter, 29. 3. 1745

Perg-A1802, apprenticeship of Joseph Schmidt as a hunter, 20. 3. 1761 (details)

More recent part: 1287 call nr. / 1288 pcs from years 1527–1893

The B Parchment Collection

Perg-B234, Genealogy of the family of Johann Prokop Wilhelm Wunschwitz, 21. 7. 1740 (detail)

Perg-B309, baron estate for Joseph von Beierweck, 22. 9. 1797 (detail)

Big format charters: 364 call nr. / 367 pcsfrom years 1497–1918 (2504 scans)

• Monography with catalogue in 2016

• Contains a lot of armorial charters and iigenealogical records

Sternberg-ManderscheidLarge family archive798 call nr. / 810 parchment charters from years 1152–1783 (1788 scans)

• The author of the planed catalogue Monika Gussone from Aachen (Germany)

• Publication in 2014/2015

Perg-ŠM2, emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa for the monastery

Weißenau, 1. 11. 1164Perg-ŠM25, Edward III. , King of England for Gerhard V. of Blankenheim, 31. 3. 1339

Singular parchments

From further 22 private and family archives and 3 collections

63 pcs = 236 scans

• e. g. Herzogenberg, B. Jiruš, Fr. Kaska, Collection of Bohuslav Dušek

The most recent digitized parchment charter – the announcement about the election of

Edvard Beneš for president of the Czech Republic, 19. 6. 1946

• Will be published on www.monasterium.net until the end of 2013

Family archive Sternberg-Manderscheid

• Philip Christian of Sternberg (1732–1811), elder son of Franz Philip- 1762 married Augusta of Manderscheid (1744–1811), heiress of the domain Blankenheim and Gerolstein

• The family archive was donated to the National Museum from the

inheritance of Franz of Sternberg-Manderscheid

(1763–1830)

The cooperation on the processing of the record group S-M begun in 2012 together with:• Landschaftsverband Rheinland – Archivberatungs- und

Fortbildungszentrum in Brauweiler-Pulheim,• Förderverein Eifelmuseum in Blankenheim, Nordrhein-Westfalen

The results of cooperation in the next years will show, which records from this record group would be helpful to digitize from the perspective of the European history.

Partners:• Dr. Hans-Werner Langbrandtner• Monika Gussone

H.-W. Langbrandtner and M. Běličová in Terezín, 20. 8. 2012

(boxes with parchment charters)

Contacts: PhDr. Milena BĚLIČOVÁ, Archive of the National Museum

milena_belicova@nm.cz