The dataset comprises all bibliographic master records pertaining to the „Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke“ (VD). It can therefore be understood as a German national bibliography.

Rich bibliographic metadata of more than 750.000 prints published between 1500 and 1800, columnar format .parquet, 174 columns, Public Domain.

This dataset can serve tasks such as bibliographic data science , understood as a history of books and early printing in the German-language countries; or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) of metadata.

Ample documentation is available in the form of a datasheet accompanying the data publication.