VD 16

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The Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16) (in English: Bibliography of Books Printed in the German Speaking Countries of the Sixteenth Century), abbreviated VD 16, is a project to make a retrospective German

There is a corresponding German national bibliography for the seventeenth century, known as VD 17. Together the VD 16 and VD 17 alongside the planned VD 18 (Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts) fulfill a function for the bibliographic history of the German cultural zone similar to the English Short Title Catalogue for Britain and North America.

See also

• Books in Germany

External links

Media related to VD 16 at Wikimedia Commons

• VD16 official website
• Search page for VD 16 and VD 17
• Digitized VD 16 Imprints at the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale)
• VD18-Datenbank: Das Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts