Historical music inventory database (1500-1800)

The Inventory database is an online resource that brings together different music inventories from the past. It is a unique tool for understanding music production, transmission and consumption. It allows a better knowledge of the context of preserved sources and brings to light important information about sources or indeed whole music collections that no longer exist. Having the content of the inventory in a digital form in the database creates new opportunities to browse and search a library catalogue as it existed several centuries ago. The database enables the connections between the different centres to be better understood by analyzing the printed and manuscript music shared (or not) across the inventories. Every record is linked to the image (or images) in the source carrying the relevant information. The data is compared to existing bibliographical tools, e.g. RISM A/I and EitnerQ.

Beromünster inventory (Bonus Ordo), 1696