Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
The Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - BSB), founded in 1558 by Duke Albrecht V and located in Munich, is one of the most important universal research libraries in the German-speaking geography and the most respected in the world. Holding more than 35 million media (including approximately 11 million books), the library is also the "legal compilation" center of the State of Bavaria, maintaining a copy of every work published in the region. It hosts one of the world's richest and most valuable collections, especially of medieval manuscripts, incunabula (books printed before 1501) and rare musical scores; One of the most famous pieces of this collection is the "Codex Aureus" written in gold letters, which is on the UNESCO Memory of the World List. BSB is considered one of the most innovative institutions in the field of digital librarianship in Europe, not only for its historical heritage, but also for the pioneering digitization projects it carries out through its Munich Digitization Center (MDZ) and its partnership with Google Books.