This listing reflects my “frequently consulted” list of resources for manuscript and incunable research as I’m working on a medieval/early modern house of tertiaries, Thalbach in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria. My aim in compiling this list of links is not to be systematic, but rather utilitarian, since I’m now frequently across browsers and even computers, and want “my” link list all in one place. There is a strong bias toward vernacular German / Austrian resources, since Vorarlberg was linked sometimes to Bavaria, sometimes to Tyrol and Innsbruck, and always to the broader Bodensee orbit.
Though I don’t claim “coverage” of digital resources, I did want my list to be useful to others, so I’ve done a few things. I’ve grouped it in clusters that might help a new researcher get started. I’ve tried to provide a brief explanation of what a resource is, and sometimes provided a “jump in” link that let’s you navigate more quickly to a search page.
I’m certainly open to adding further resources as they come to my attention, and invite your contributions. You can reach me at my vanderbilt.edu email (cynthia.cyrus “at”…) with suggestions.
Navigation
Manuscripts, Works, & Catalogues
- Handschriftencensus: Inventory of medieval German-language works and the manuscripts that contain them.
- Manuscript portal: https://handschriftencensus.de/hss
- Works portal: https://handschriftencensus.de/werke/
- Handschriftenportal: : Centralized access to German manuscript catalogues (formerly Manuscripta Mediaevalia).
- Main portal (with search function): https://handschriftenportal.de/
- Catalogues for Germany (HKOL): https://bilder.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/hs/kataloge-online.htm
- Catalogues for other Countries (HKOL): https://bilder.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/hs/kataloge-hsa.htm
- manuscripta.at: ÖNB listing of Austrian manuscript catalogues
UMBRELLA SITES FOR DIGITIZED MANUSCRIPTS
FRAGMENTS
- Fragmentarium – digitization,description, and scholarly study of medieval manuscript fragments; allows virtual reunification of dispersed fragments, https://fragmentarium.ms/
- Digital Scriptorium – US-based database including medieval and early modern manuscripts/fragments, https://digital-scriptorium.org/
- HAAB Aschebuch Fragments – Identification of fragments from the 2004 Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek fire, https://haab-digital.klassik-stiftung.de/viewer/Identifizierung_Aschebuchfragmente/
INCUNABLES
- ISTC – Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, https://data.cerl.org/istc/
- VD16 – German 16th-century prints catalogue, https://www.bsb-muenchen.de/sammlungen/historische-drucke/recherche/vd-16/
- GW / GKW – Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, https://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/ (and its English overview: https://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/GWWelcomeEN.xhtml)
- INKA – Tübingen – Incunabula Catalog of German Libraries, https://www.inka.uni-tuebingen.de/
- Hain, Repertorium bibliographicum (1826)
- vol 1: https://books.google.de/books?id=eRIFAAAAMAAJ
- vol 2: https://books.google.de/books?3wid=xhMFAAAAMAAJ
- Copinger’s supplement: https://archive.org/details/supplementtohai00copigoog/page/n7/mode/2up
- The 1906 follow-along by Reichling https://archive.org/details/appendicesadhai01reicgoog/page/n4/mode/2up
- vdlb: Distributed Digital Library of Incunabula, https://www.hab.de/en/distributed-digital-library-of-incunabula/
- OENB – Austrian Incunables , https://www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/sammlung-von-handschriften-und-alten-drucken/bestaende/alte-drucke/inkunabeln (Note, under quick link searches, you can pre-select for incunables)
- RELICS – Renaissance Liturgical Imprints: A Census, https://quod.lib.umich.edu/r/relics/
CALENDARS & SAINTS
- Corpus Kalendarium – relational database of calendars from European Books of Hours:
- Grotefend – Calendars and feasts:
- Lechner, Mittelalterliche Kirchenfeste und Kalendarien in Bayern
- Medieval Calendar Calculator: https://www.wallandbinkley.com/mcc/
- Date of Easter: https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/easter/easter_text2b.htm
- Perpetual Easter Calculator: https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/easter/easter_text2c
- Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon: https://www.heiligenlexikon.de/
Nuns' Libraries (Projects)
- Polonsky
Foundation Digitization Project -- Manuscripts from German-Speaking Lands: https://hab.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/en/
- Helmstedt, Augustinian nunnery of Marienberg
- Lamspringe, Benedictine canonesses
- Medingen, Cistercian nunnery
- Augsburg, Dominican nunnery of St Ursula
- Karlburg, Benedictine nunnery
- Mödingen, Dominican nunnery of Maria Medingen
- Late-medieval monastic libraries in Lower Saxony: https://www.hab.de/en/reconstruction-and-study-of-late-medieval-monastery-libraries-in-lower-saxony/
- Schriftlichkeit in Süddeutschen Frauenklöstern: https://frauenkloester.bavarikon.de/Projekt/Hauptseite
- Altenhohenau (Dominikanerinnen)
- Altomünster (OSB/Birgittenkloster)
- Munich houses (Pütrich-Regelhaus as Franziskanertertiarinnen, St Jakob am Anger as Klarissenkloster)
- Neuburg a. d. Donau as Benediktinerinnenkloster)
- St Katharina in Nuremberg: http://db-st-katharina.vmguest.uni-jena.de/home/
- Medingen Project: http://medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk/index.php/manuscript-01-2/
- MSS from Merseburg, Naumburg, Kollegiatstifts Zeitz: https://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/korax/templates/master/template_korax2/index.xml
MEMORIA
Ottosen, Responsories of the Latin Office of the Dead (a reformulated version of the database undergirding his doctoral thesis, The Responsories and Versicles of the Latin Office of the Dead, https://www.cantusplanus.de/databases/Ottosen/index.html
Hugener, Buchführung für die Ewigkeit, Totengedenken, Verschriftlichung und Traditionsbildung im Spätmittelalter, https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=rgVMDAAAQBAJ&hl=en
Early Modern Vorarlberg Resources
- Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek Catalogue -- https://vlb.vorarlberg.at/suche/
- Monasterium.net (virtual charters) -- https://www.monasterium.net/
- Parish registers for St Gallen in Bregenz: https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/oesterreich/vorarlberg/bregenz/
- Rapp, Topographisch-historische Beschreibung …Dekanat Bregenz: https://texte.volare.vorarlberg.at/viewer/image/000079738/2/
- Publications by Vorarlberg Archivists: http://apps.vorarlberg.at/vorarlberg/vorarlberg/bildung_schule/bildung/landesarchiv/weitere/pub/vortraege/beitraegevonderzeitigenun.htm
- Schmid 2013, Der Klerus des deutschen Teils der Diözese Konstanz am Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts, https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/33180282.pdf
- Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv – Wikisource https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Freiburger_Di%C3%B6zesan-Archiv
- Thalbach Akten (Rep 14-173): https://apps.vorarlberg.at/vorarlberg/pdf/rep_14-173klosterthalbach.pdf
- Bregenz Pfarrarchiv Akten (Rep 14-097): http://apps.vorarlberg.at/vorarlberg/pdf/rep_14-097pfarrarchivbre1.pdf
- Kloster Mehrerau Akten: https://docplayer.org/50843680-Kloster-mehrerau-akten.html
- Abbots of Mehrerau: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_%C3%84bte_von_Mehrerau
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