Germanic Language Resources
These facsimile reproductions of books on Gothic and Old Saxon were scanned during work on the Wulfila project, mainly for OCR processing. Since these works are in the public domain, it seems reasonable to share them.
Many more books can be found at Sean Crist's Germanic Lexicon Project; his website was an important source of inspiration.
Contents
- Sievers, Eduard: Heliand. Halle 1878.
- Streitberg, Wilhelm: Gotisches Elementarbuch. Heidelberg 1920.
- Streitberg, Wilhelm: Gotisch–Griechisch–Deutsches Wörterbuch. Heidelberg 1910.
The following digital edition originated in another University of Antwerp project that moved to the KANTL in 2013:
- Gysseling, Maurits: Toponymisch Woordenboek van België, Nederland, Luxemburg, Noord-Frankrijk en West-Duitsland (vóór 1226). Belgisch Interuniversitair Centrum voor Neerlandistiek 1960.
Technical notes
The facsimile editions are available in three formats:
- TIFF – Master format used to store the original scans, bilevel (i.e. monochrome) 600dpi images compressed with CCITT Group 4 compression. All other formats are derived from these files. A separate program or browser plugin may be required to view them.
- PNG – Downscaled copies of the original files, optimized for on-screen reading (about 30% of the original size, with 4 bit grayscale to provide some anti-aliasing). Not suitable for printing.
- PDF – Suitable for printing the entire book or downloading all images at once for offline use.
Detailed descriptions of how the images and documents were generated can be found on each book's index page. In general, image processing was done using ImageMagick, navigation pages were generated using XSL Transformations (processed with Saxon), and PDF documents were created with XSL Formatting objects (processed with Apache FOP).
Copyright
With the exception of Gysseling 1960, all books in this collection are in the public domain: they were published before 1923 and their authors died more than 70 years ago. You are free to download and use the images and documents as you wish.
We would, however, appreciate it if use of these materials is properly acknowledged, in accordance with normal scholarly etiquette.