Kateřina Zenklová (Czech National Archives in Prague) on "Digitizing of the municipal books in the frame of the project Libri Civitatis" held on 29.04.2015 at the international conference "Archival Cooperation and Community Building in the Digital Age" within the panel "Learning the past to build the future: education in the Digital Age" at Břevnov Archabbey in Prague (CZ).

2.  Documentation and general accessibility of municipal
books in the Czech Republic
 duration of the project:
 2009 – 2011 (GAČR No. 404/09/0214)
 2013 – 2015 (GAČR No. 13 – 09 254 S)
 supported by:
 the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
 university research funds

3.  Department of History, Philosophical Faculty, Jan
Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (KHI FF
UJEP) - main coordinator
 Department of Auxiliary Sciences of History and Archive
Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (PVH
FF UK)
 Prague City Archives (AHMP)
 The Brno City Archives (AMB)

4.  study of municipal books
 a series of transcribed editions of the
oldest abooks
 systematically coordinated publication
activity
 analytical study and publication
 systematic methodological activity

5.  commemorative books
 books of municipal legislation
 books of municipal finances
 books of municipal
administration
 books of municipal court
 books of public service

6.  I. The oldest
commemorative book of
Česká Lípa, 1461 – 1722
 II. The oldest municipal
book of the royal town of
Most, 1517-1519
 III. The oldest
commemorative book of
a major royal town of
Litoměřice, 1341-1562

7.  IV. The oldest book of the royal town of Ústí nad
Labem, 1438-1514 – will be made available online in a
digitized form instead of a printed edition
 V. Books of Burgher Rights in New Town, Prague, 1518-
1581
 VI. Books of Burgher Rights in New Town, Prague, 1612
– 1657

8. Municipal book of Česká
Lípa, 1461 – 1722, fol. 5v
Municipal book of Česká Lípa, 1461 – 1722,
fol. 5v – transcribed edition

9.  central listing of the information about municipal
books
 each entry contains basic information about the book

10.  archives
 place of origin
 archival holding
 signatures
 citation in catalogues
 inventory number

11.  type of the book
 time period
 the book’s title
 author
 keywords

12.  size
 number of pages
 physical state of the
book and its binding
 conservator’s treatment
 watermarks
 material
 language

13.  summary of the book
 editions

14.  microfilms or other means of disclosure

15.  literature

16.  Participants:
 state regional archives
 state district archives
 over 2000 entries in the database so far
 revision and unification of entries by the
project coordinators
 database available online

17.  documents accessible in digital form on websites of
individual archives

18.  www.libricivitatis.cz
 Stav a perspektivy zpřístupňování středověkých a raně
novověkých městských knih. Ústecký sborník historický.
Supplementum 1., FF UJEP Ústí nad Labem, FF UK, AHMP
2011
 Editionswissenschaftliche Kolloquien 2005/2007.
Methodik - Amtsbücher - Digitale Edition – Projekte (edd.
Thumser, M., Tandecki, J., Thumser, A.), Towarzystwo
naukowe w Toruniu, Toruň 2008, s. 77-97.

19.  contribution to historical research of
medieval cities
 published editions
 online database
 digitizing

20. e-mail: katerina.zenklova@nacr.cz