Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue - Hardcover

Mairhofer, Daniela

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851244549 ISBN 13: 9781851244546

Publisher: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2019

Synopsis

The Bodleian Library is one of the few libraries outside Germany with a substantial number of medieval manuscripts from the German-speaking lands. These manuscripts, most of which were acquired by Archbishop Laud in the 1630s, during the Thirty Years War, mainly consist of major groups of codices from ecclesiastical houses in the Rhine-Main area, that is Würzburg, Mainz, and Eberbach. Their potential contribution to the religious and intellectual history of these foundations and to the study of German medieval culture as a whole is immeasurable.

These volumes contain descriptions of more than one hundred medieval manuscripts, mostly Latin, from the Charterhouse St. Michael at Mainz. Dating from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries, they reflect the spirituality and literary interest of the Carthusian order. The first major publication on the Mainz Charterhouse manuscript collection, this two-volume edition provides authoritative and superbly detailed descriptions, including information about the physical characteristics, decoration, binding, and provenance of the manuscripts.
 

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About the Author

Daniela Mairhofer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at Princeton University.
 

Edition details

• Publisher: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1851244549
• ISBN 13: 9781851244546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1816