Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Lat 395
This bibliography was compiled by Nadia Marx, William Stoneman, and Johanna Rodda.
Please be advised that some links may require Harvard ID and PIN.
HOLLIS
G. Achten. “De gebedenboeken van de Cisterciënzerinnenkloosters Medingen en Wienhausen.” Miscellanea Neerlandica, Opstellen voor Dr. Jan Deschamps. Ed. E. Cockx-Indestege and F. Hendrickx. Louvain: Peeters, 1987. 173-188. HOLLIS
W. Lipphardt. “Medinger Gebetbücher.” Die Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon. Vol. 6. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1987. cols. 275-280. HOLLIS
Henrike Lähnemann. “‘An dessen bom wil ik stigen.’ Die Ikonographie des Wichmannsburger Antependiums im Kontext der Medinger Handschriften.” Oxford German Studies 34 (1), 2005. 19-46. HOLLIS
One of the most recent studies on the iconography of manuscripts produced at the Medingen community.
Medingen Manuscripts (Link)
MS Lat 395 probably came from the Cistercian convent of Medingen, founded ca. 1228, which was active as a site of manuscript production and illumination. A large number of prayer books in Latin and German were produced at the convent.
Projekt: Die Medinger Handschriften und die Entwicklung volkssprachiger Andachtsformen. (online)
http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/henrike.laehnemann/medingen.htm Link
A project devoted to compiling information on the extant manuscripts from the Medingen cloister (in progress). (see “Medingen Manuscripts” above)
Regesta Imperii.
(online) http://opac.regesta-imperii.de/lang_de/suche.php?ts=medingen Link
Provides a bibliography of material related to the Medingen convent.
Ulrike Hascher-Burger. Verborgene Klänge: Inventar der handschriftenlich überlieferten Musik aus der Lüneburger Frauenklöstern bis ca. 1550 mit einer Darstellung der Musik-Ikonographie von Ulrike Volkhardt. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2008. HOLLIS
Handschriftencensus: Eine Bestandaufnahme der handschriftlichen Überlieferung deutschsprachiger Texte des Mittelalters.(website) Accessed 5 November 2009.
Listed in a census of medieval German manuscripts. Found under “Gesamtverzeichnis Handschriften, Cambridge, Mass.” Internet Link
Cross-reference under “Gesamtverzeichnis Handschriften, Magdeburg” (formerly “Bibl. Des Kunstmuseums, Bi 105”). Link
Barbara Haggh. No. 451, in “Bulletin Codicologique 2010, 2,” in Scriptorium 64.2 (2010). MS cited pp. 198*-199*. HOLLIS
Summary of Hascher-Burger (2008).
