Middle Low German Primer written by the Medingen Nuns
All manuscripts from the Lüneburg convents, including Medingen, with music notation have been catalogued by Ulrike Hascher-Burger in Verborgene Klänge. Inventar der handschriftlich überlieferten Musik aus den Lüneburger Frauenklöstern bis ca. 1550, published by Olms in 2008. Her website musica devota (on a Dutch
Slides from my spotlight presentation (10 min.!) for the Manuscript Collaboration Colloquium in June 2015: pdf-version
As part of the Digital Toolkit, the Bodleian Library at Oxford now allows sharing of photographs taken with permission for research purposes. This allowed me to upload the two Medingen manuscripts currently held at the Bodleian, the Latin-Low German Easter
The bibliography is work-in-progress. It is mainly based on the bibliography in the volume Ulrike Hascher-Burger and Henrike Lähnemann, ‘Liturgie und Reform‘, Tübingen 2013. Open access articles will be added in due course. Please report errors and additional publications via
Country code – library code D-Au = Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg D-B = Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin D-BMs = UB Bremen D-EFu = Forschungsbibliothek Gotha D-Gs = Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen D-HIb = Dombibliothek Hildesheim D-HIs = Stadtarchiv Hildesheim D-Hs = Staats-und
The website for Medingen Manuscripts which for eight years was hosted by Newcastle University, has moved to St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford in June 2015 (archived here). Since I want to take the opportunity, to implement some new features