{"id":1130,"date":"2021-06-27T20:43:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T20:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2025-02-26T23:23:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T23:23:41","slug":"manuscripts-live-singing-from-medieval-sources-in-the-bodleian-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2021\/06\/27\/manuscripts-live-singing-from-medieval-sources-in-the-bodleian-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuscripts Live: Singing from Medieval Sources in the Bodleian Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tuesday 6 July 2021, 18:00-19:00 via zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building on the success of\u202fGregorian chant workshops\u202f with manuscripts from the Bodleian Library, a group of Oxford medievalists\u202fare offering insights into working with manuscripts during lockdown. Meet some of the manuscripts from the Abbey of\u202fMedingen, recently digitized through the\u202fPolonsky German project, and sing along to chants from the Easter period.\u202f A special focus will be on the \u2018Exsultet\u2019 which attracted some of the most colourful illumination of the manuscripts as well as detailed devotional instructions in Latin and Low German on how to sing it both out aloud and \u201con the harp strings of the soul\u201d. Read more on Savouring the Exultet at Medingen<\/a> in this blog post by Innocent Smith OP for the Polonsky German manuscript digitisation project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Dunning, R.W. Hunt Curator of Medieval Manuscripts, will show the Medingen manuscripts at the Bodleian Library live via visualiser from the Weston Library; Zachary Guiliano, Chaplain of St Edmund Hall, Henrike L\u00e4hnemann, Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, and Nick Swarbrick, Gregorian chant instructor, will form a Schola in the Crypt of St-Peter-in-the-East, the library of St Edmund Hall, and comment on the manuscripts, the music, and their theological significance. Two graduate students working on the Easter prayer books, Carolin Gluchowski and Marlene Schilling, will point out some of the special nuntastic features of the manuscripts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Part of the\u00a0IMC Leeds Fringe Events<\/a>; everybody welcome \u2013 free attendance for all manuscript and music enthusiasts! Music downloads for the event:\u00a0Nunc dimittis<\/a>\u00a0(audience sings the \u2018repetitio\u2019\u00a0Lumen ad revelacionem gencium<\/em>\u00a0as congregational responses);\u00a0Exultet\u00a0<\/a>(audience sings the congregational responses);\u00a0Victime paschali laudes<\/a>\u00a0(audience sings the \u2018Christ ist erstanden\u2019 as congregational response and the question of the disciples\u00a0Dic nobis Maria\u2026<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Exultet iam angelica turba celorum\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. f. 4<\/a>, fol. 20r \u2013 view the full manuscript on the Polonsky German website hab.bodleian.ox.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website Medingen Manuscripts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recording of the first Polonsky German Workshop \u201cSinging Apart, Together<\/a>\u201d and of the third workshop which also features the Exultet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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