Wer sucht,der findet. Über die Münchener Emblemdatenbank

The present contribution informs about the project “Retrospective digitization of selected emblem books of the early modern period” supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). The first part aims at a definition of the genre and at a presentation of its sources. In addition, it gives a brief abstract of the history of research and proves the interdisciplinarity of this subject. The second part describes the project's development and the conception of the Munich emblem database.