Middle Low German Primer written by the Medingen Nuns
Philipp Heil (Hildesheim) explores the significance of the depth of wormholes in the leather-covered boards of the late medieval prayer-book Dombibliothek Hildesheim Ms J 29. The prayer-book was written in 1478 by the Cistercian nun Winheid von Winsen in the
In the week before Christmas 2018, I had the chance of consult two key manuscripts from the Medingen corpus in the Cathedral Library of Hildesheim which are going to be digitised as part of the #PolonskyGerman project. The Director of the library, PD Dr Monika Suchan, kindly allowed me to experiment with capturing the materiality of these in a series of short video clips.
I recently was asked by a group of students from UCL to contribute to their research blog, the ingeniously named knowitwall, contributing a post on my research on the Medingen manuscripts under the title Opening Medieval Manuscripts. I found the
PhD student Kerstin Herdman has identified another Psalter from Medingen at the Beinecke Library, Yale, MS 1194. She writes: “The Beinecke fragment has 81 folia and begins in the middle of the psalter. Any calendar or texts outside the psalms
Auf den Spuren klösterlicher Textarbeit Arbeitsgespräch im Kloster Wienhausen, 5./6. September 2016 Programm Montag, 5. September 9.00 Begrüßung 9.15-9.45 Simone Schultz-Balluff Textzustände und Wissenswelten: Spurensuche in Kloster Wienhausen Verwalten und Kommunizieren 9.45-10.15 Wolfgang Brandis Die mittelalterlichen Textzeugen: Zur besonderen Überlieferungssituation
The project group for editing the letters by the nuns from Kloster Lüne met on 27/28 July in Freiburg. The ‘Nuns’ Network’ project which is supported by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung is led by the historian Eva Schlotheuber and the Germanist Henrike Lähnemann. The first project
The Gerda Henkel Stiftung which generously funds ‘The Nuns’ Network’ to edit the letters collected and written by the Benedictine nuns of Kloster Lüne has highlighted the project in its annual report. Read the full report here
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Weston Library, Lecture Theatre, 10-12noon On the day after Henrike Lähnemann’s Inaugural Lecture, there was the opportunity to see all Medingen manuscripts held in Oxford together (list of manuscripts) and discuss various aspects with a panel of specialists. Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford): Introduction
Andrew Honey (Conservator, Bodleian Library): The Plaque in the Psalter and the Bindings On the day after Henrike Lähnemann’s Inaugural Lecture, all four Medingen manuscripts held in Oxford (list of manuscripts) were displayed in the Weston Lecture Theatre and specialists discussed