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The State and University Library Bremen (SuUB) stores around 9,500 occasional writings from Bremen, including funeral speeches and congratulatory messages for weddings, birthdays, and other events. A DFG project is now making the collection available online.
Dating from the 16th to 19th centuries, the manuscripts and prints were written in Latin, Low German, High German, and occasionally in French. The documents provide direct insight into the history of urban society.
Through the project “Personal Occasional Writings (16th – 19th Century),” the DFG is supporting the indexing and digitization of documents related to Bremen’s history, including occasional writings. The project will run from 2025 to 2028, and the documents will be made available gradually. Some titles are already available at the SuUB digital collection https://brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/?lang=en .
Documents as Windows into the Past
Most of the people mentioned in these documents lived and worked in Bremen. “These writings are like windows into the past that we can open to learn about life in Bremen long before our time,” says Anne Harnisch, who is head of the project. This type of source contains a wealth of material, especially on the lives of women about whom there are otherwise few written records.
The prints and manuscripts were stored in the library’s historical collections and are now being processed, scanned, and made available to the public in the SuUB’s digital collections. In this way, they complement the existing range of full texts. In addition to meta data, an index of persons, and a calendar search, further filter options will be available in the future for more convenient searching.
Anne Harnisch
Head of the DFG project on Personal Occasional Writings (16th-19th Century)
State and University Library Bremen
Phone: +49 421 21859573
Email: anne.harnisch@suub.uni-bremen.de
https://brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/suubcasual
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