Funding organisation: DFG Funding level: Personnel and physical resources Running time: 2012 – 2014   Project description: The University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt can call about 80,000 prints from the 17th century its own. Of those about 59,700 titles are already indexed in the retrospective national bibliographic index of prints published in the German-speaking world (VD 17). About 10,500 of these titles are part of the Ponickau Library, the most important historical special collection of the ULB. These were fully digitised in the years 2007 – 2009.   The subsequent project “Digitisation of the Prints of Mainstream Literature of the 17th century recorded in the VD 17” further complements the digitisation project Ponickau. In this regard, approximately 5,000 17th century titles from the ULB’s holdings are digitised. The selection of titles to be digitised is to include primarily the more widely distributed works, is conducted in close consultation with other libraries (SLUB Dresden, UB Rostock and HAB Wolfenbüttel) and happens in the context of the VD 17 – Master Plan for Digitisation, which provides the frame for entirely digitising the corpus of VD 17-works as soon as possible.   Supplementary information and publications: Access to the digitised materials is possible via the project’s homepage.