Monday, July 19, 2010

Learn more about the history of Books in Gunnerus library!

Bookbinding in Trondheim:
Books are also artecrafts, and their history is connected to bookbinding.
In Trondheim library we are still running a bookbinding laboratory in 2010.
A Paper conservator is also working at our library with the rare books (LibriRari) and manuscripts that need reparation or conservation, protecting and preserving the texts which they contain. Some of that material is being digitized and is now available for reading through Bibsys and the websites of the library.


More about old books:

OLD HANDWRITING: some examples by Monica Aase

Paper first came into use in Norway at the end of the 15th century. In the early Middle Ages men wrote on parchment, i.e. finely treated skin from a calf, kid, or other animal. Parchment was very expensive and even small pieces were made use of. Also, many abbreviations were used, which those able to read did not have problems understanding then, though which today’s readers have to spend some time on. For example, if the letter ‘m’ had a line above it, it indicated a double letter, ‘mm’. Information on measures, weights and other matters were also abbreviated so that the text could be reduced to a minimum. In some examples the skin has holes – perhaps caused by an insect at the time when the animal, from which the parchment was made from, was alive – and in such cases the writing was often carefully done around the hole. Read more here
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Newton going Digital!



Newtons Principia Mathematica from 1686 is one of the valuable possessions we hold in the Gunnerus library.


This book ended up in Trondheim as a book of the DKNVS collections as one of a kind since the 250 copies that were then printed were very quickly sold out. Library's edition of the Principia Mathematica is probably the very own of Bishop Gunnerus who established DKNVS in 1760.


Before the bishop came to Trondheim and founded the Trondhjemske Company, later called the Royal Norwegian Society affirmation, he sojourned in Halle in the period 1742-1744 and for a longer period then in 1744-1758, in Jena, and one can speculate whether it was under this period in Halle and Jena that he bought this book. When Gunnerus died in 1773 leaving behind him a large debt, his large private library was therefore sold. In the auction catalog it says Gerhard Schøning bought Newton's Principia Mathematica.

The book is considered to be an outstanding scholarly work for the developments in physics and astronomy and the 17th century sciences, and there are hardly any other work in physics, which are similar to that in importance. The work describes the theory that later became known as Newton's laws of motion, which laid the groundwork for classical mechanics and also Newton's universal gravitation theory.


Zoom in the book here

The establishment of the library that is today called Gunnerus library belongs to the history of the DKNVS. The library today has initiated aprogram of digitization of its most valuable books, manuscripts and archives and is developing a open platform where its valuable documents can be accessed by the public. Using "Erez" one can actually browse through the book and zoom inn its pages and thus enjoy all the details as if one was holding the book in his hand.

Service terms and prices

The NTNU Gunnerus Library charges a use fee based on its ownership of the physical materials in its collections.

Photo colection

We have about 400 000 photographs from Trondheim in the early 1900’s until around 1940’s in our collection. We are in process of digitizing the material, and you can search our digital collection on the website “trondheimsbilder”. Here you can search by name, address or location. To order a photo you need to follow the link called “more options and information”, and then a link called “bestill bilde” (order photo) in Norwegian.

In case you wish to publish the photo we charge a use fee of 500 NOK for commercial publications, and 200 NOK for non-commercial publications each time the material is published.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email us.


Photo services


Prints /analog development

13x18

170,-

18x24

170,-



Digitisation of photos or document scan, price per item:



Low quality


0 – 1 Mb

50,-


High quality


1 - 20 Mb

150,-

21 - 50 Mb

200,-

over 50 Mb

300,-



Shipping and handling:




E-mail

50,- per item

Download

50,- per item

CD

100,- + 50,- per item + postage

Paper

50,- per item + postage