2. The maps printed before 1850
Moll's Collection
Maps sheets printed before 1850
Atlases printed before 1850
Some maps are preserved in books and atlases, some maps and most
of the atlases are registered as books.
4. Moll's Collection
Atlas collected in the 1740s and 1750s
Includes printed vedutes, maps and drawings (12 000 sheets)
Preserved original structure
Preserved original handwritten catalogues in two editions
Predominantly very good condition
6. History of the Moll's Collection
Collected in 1740s and 1750s
1780 Bernard Paul Moll died
1821 donated to the Francis Museum in Brno
1850s transferred to the library of the museum
1950 first modern printed catalogue
2000s electronic catalogue
2009-2010 digitalization and construction of the mapy.mzk.cz web
portal (also available in English and German)
7. The structure of the collection
1) Atlases
Atlas Austriacus
Atlas Germanicus
1) Groups of countries and individual countries (e.g. Burgundian circle,
Austrian Netherlands)
2) Sorted by type (historical maps, maps of the countries, plans and
vedutes of the cities, drawings …)
3) Individual maps
13. Bibliographical records - positives
Standardized format (MARC 21)
Linked with authorities' records for places and for persons
mentioned
Include data on coordinates
Notes about former ownership
OAI-PMH
Most of them are geo-referenced
Completely digitalized
14. Bibliographical records - negatives
Standardised format and cataloguing rules – but incorrectly applied
Digitalized – but not all pictures were preserved in original format
Content of the maps was not catalogued
Definitions of the bounding boxes was not approved
Dating of the maps was not approved
Not sufficiently connected with the original catalogues