Dear John, Thanks for this! I was only objecting to the image quality in Göttingen's online viewer. I'd had trouble downloading a PDF before and had erroneously supposed that wasn't an option, but have now gone back and successfully pulled a copy which is satisfyingly high resolution. Of course, Buttlar isn't without his faults, but it's still nice to have access . . . . All the best, Kelsey On Thursday, 16 June 2016 23:51:32 UTC+1, John Higgins wrote: > On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 11:52:44 AM UTC-7, Kelsey Jackson Williams wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > Is anyone aware of a digitised and readable version of Rudolf von Buttlar-Elberberg's _Stammbuch der Althessischen Ritterschaft_ (Kassel, 1888) online? The copy digitised by the University of Göttingen at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN513401067|LOG_0005&physid=PHYS_0045 seems to be so low resolution that the individual pedigrees are entirely illegible. > > > > All the best, > > Kelsey > > I have a copy of that volume, downloaded from the site you mention. As downloaded, the images are indeed quite small and need to be blown up with Acrobat (or whatever PDF reader you're using) to be readable. But once they're enlarged, the images are quite legible. Admittedly the pedigrees are so big that (when enlarged) you have to do a lot of scrolling around to read them. But it's manageable, and I certainly wouldn't cconsider them illegible. Of course, you also have to be comfortable reading fraktur type, which can be a bigger obstacle than the size or legibility of the pedigrees IMO.... :-)