Subject: Katharinenkloster Nuremberg
From: Bettina Wagner <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:41:47 +0100

Dear colleagues,

herewith we would like to introduce to you the new project “Dokumentierende Rekonstruktion des Bibliotheksbestandes des Nürnberger Katharinenklosters” (“A documented reconstruction of the library of the Katharinenkloster at Nuremberg”) sponsered by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). This project, begun in April 2006, is housed at the institute for German medieval philology (director prof. Hartmut Kugler) of the university of Erlangen-Nuremberg (http://www.germanistenverzeichnis.phil.uni-erlangen.de/altgermanistik/projekte.html).

It is the aim of the project to reconstruct with the help of a databank the medieval library of the Dominican cloister as well as the use of the books during the readings in refectory. It will be possible to exploit the databank according to different categories, for example the medieval signature of a given book or its writer. Thus, the databank will give the opportunity to do research in many topics, not only literary history, but also library, cultural, ecclesiastical, and liturgical history. Furthermore, the data available will be presented in a printed version.

Since we would like to reconstruct the items of the library in a way as complete as possible, we will be very grateful for further indications of manuscripts stemming from the Katharinenkloster at Nuremberg. These could also be manuscripts from the Dominican abbeys at Tulln, Pforzheim, Bamberg, Altenhohenau, Gotteszell, Regensburg, Medingen, Engelthal, and Schönensteinbach which were in close contact with the Katharinenkloster at Nuremberg.

In the appendix you will find examples for signatures and entries indicating the possession of certain books that are characteristic of the Katharinenkloster.

With kind regards,

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Kugler ([email-masked])
Dr. Antje Willing ([email-masked])
Nicole Steidl ([email-masked])

Institut für Germanistik 
Germanistische Mediävistik
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
D-91054 Erlangen,
Bismarckstr. 1, Haus B
Tel. 0049- (0)9131/85-22186
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