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A few years ago, the then deputy director of the Augsburg University Library, Günter Hägele, approached Franz Körndle, the professor of musicology at the University of Augsburg. During restoration work on a printed book from the 17th century, fragments of a music manuscript were discovered. The restored book contains a copy of the Compendium Geographiae Systematicum, printed in Coburg in 1628. It can be found in the Augsburg library catalogue under the shelfmark 02/VIII.3.8.25. Hägele had already collected information about the book’s provenance: The edition contains an undated ownership note (‘M. Radt or M. Rath). It only became part of the famous Oettingen-Wallerstein collection in the 19th century, which saw an enormous increase in antiquarian books, particularly in the decades after 1800 due to secularisation and the collecting enthusiasm of Prince Ludwig von Oettingen-Wallerstein.

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