![]() In January 2020, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) awarded Peripheral Manuscripts: Digitizing Medieval Manuscript Collections in the Midwest $281,936 to digitize and create item-level metadata for medieval manuscripts from twenty-two Midwestern institutions, focusing on smaller colleges, libraries, and museums that may not have the resources to provide digital access to their holdings. Aged papers and petite drawings elicit questions: Who made this? What is this paper made from? Where are such treasures kept?įor the past three years,the Peripheral Manuscripts team has been working together to capture the beauty of these medieval texts and make them discoverable and accessible to audiences around the world, a task that goes far beyond what any single team member could accomplish working alone. Ornamental scallops and borders, illuminated letters, and precision handwriting inspire wonder. Medieval manuscripts awaken awe within the viewer. The eighth volume of the catalogue series is dedicated to the Codices iconographici, a collection of medieval and early modern illuminated manuscripts with only a small proportion of text (Marianne Reuter, 2013).A leaf fragment from a medieval missal, Loyola University Chicago. The publications include descriptions of the pre-Carolingian and Carolingian manuscripts (Katharina Bierbrauer, 1990), of the Ottonian manuscripts (Elisabeth Klemm, 2004), of the Romance-language manuscripts (Elisabeth Klemm, 19), the manuscripts of the thirteenth century (Elisabeth Klemm, 1998) and the Gothic manuscripts up to the mid-14th century (Béatrice Hernad, 2000). Since the 1980s, codices have been analysed and described art-historically, starting with the codices from the German language area. The project continues the series of catalogues of illuminated manuscripts of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, connecting up with the two-part catalogue of illuminated manuscripts of Italian provenance published by Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt in 20. The results will be made available in the form of a printed publication and on the Internet, in the open-access format. ![]() In a project supported by the German Research Foundation, around 250 manuscripts of the 10th to the mid-14th century are processed in accordance with the DFG's guidelines by Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt in a first project phase of five years that started in 2013. 6: "Liber De casibus virorum illustrium et de mulieribus claris" by Giovanni BoccaccioĬgm 84: Prayer book of Princess Sibylle von Cleve Two English Psalter manuscripts of the 13th and 14th century, the "Golden Munich Psalter" (Clm 835) and the Isabella Psalter (Cod.gall. Two books of hours with miniatures by Simon Bening (Clm 23637 and Clm 28345) and of the prayer book of Princess Sibylle von Cleve (Cgm 84, around 1527) received their artistic design in the Netherlands. 6), which was illuminated in the workshop of Jean Fouquet in 1458. Among the codices of outstanding artistic quality, there is a manuscript from Brittany, containing a French translation of the "Liber De casibus virorum illustrium et de mulieribus claris“ by Giovanni Boccaccio (Cod.gall. ![]() Consequently, only individual specimens are known to art-historical research internationally. A number of early printed works also contain fragments of manuscripts with French book illuminations used to cover the bindings, or incunabula were artistically adorned by book illustrators from this region.ĭespite the importance of the Munich collections, so far no systematic, academic description and art-historical analysis has taken place. They go back to the time between the late 10th and the early 16th century and can be found in several collection groups of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: predominantly, they belong to the Latin manuscripts (Codices latini Monacenses = Clm) and the French manuscripts (Codices gallici), in addition also to the German (Codices germanici Monacenses = Cgm), other Romance languages (for example Codices hispanici) and the English (Codices anglici) manuscripts. The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek holds an outstanding collection of around 425 medieval manuscripts which were provided with book illuminations in France and the neighbouring regions (Belgium, Netherlands, England and Spain). ![]()
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