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Digital Monumenta Germaniae Histórica (dMGH) Monumenta Germaniae Histórica and Bavarian State Library. 2005- 2010. Web. <http://www.dmgh.de>.
* The Monumenta Germaniae Histórica (MGH) publishes scholarly editions of source material relevant to the history of the Realm of the Franks and the Holy Roman Empire in the Middle Ages. The enterprise began in the early nineteenth century and became a research institution of its own in 1935. The publication of critical editions re- mains the central goal of the MGH. Over the last 150 years, the MGH has gained a reputation for the high quality of their editions, although they had to redo some of their early volumes in order to integrate new research results. The series is divided into several sections: historiogra- phy in the scriptores, law texts in the leges, charters in the diplomata, letters in the epistolae, and various genres from poetry to necrologies in the antiquitates. In the international community, the c. 400 volumes are considered the most prestigious editions of continental European sources of the early and high Middle Ages, both in terms of scholarly standards and completeness. The majority of these sources are in Latin, with a smaller selection in German.
By the early 1990s, the MGH started to digitize its editions in co- operation with Brepols Publishers under the label of eMGH (electronic MGH). The eMGH as a CD-ROM publication from 1996 onwards was based on the CETEDOC software, and the resulting product is mainly intended as a philological research tool. From 2004 to 2010, the MGH received three grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to create a new digital version (thus dMGH) of the existing printed editions in cooperation with the Digitization Center at the Bavarian State Library. This review draws upon a monographic discussion of the dMGH by Patrick Sahle and Bernhard Assmann, published as the first volume of the Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik in 2008, shifts its focus towards philology, and extends it to the project's recent developments.
As of 2012, the dMGH presents without any access restriction an impressive amount of textual material: some 350 volumes with more than 165,000 pages, presumably all editions that have been published until 2007. 23 of these volumes are parts of two additional series, which are not...