Mittelalterliche Handschriften: Digitalisierung und Erschließung Tegernseer Handschriften des 15. Jahrhunderts

• Applicant: Dr. Klaus Ceynowa
• Term: from 2019 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 429156101

The BSB's collection of manuscripts from the Benedictine monastery of Tegernsee is probably the largest and most important collection with a common monastic provenance in Germany. It comprises about 1.680, mainly Latin manuscripts dating from the late eight to the eighteenth century. To the present, the BSB has catalogued its manuscript collections exclusively in projects following the sequence of shelfmarks and according to the established methods of the DFG's guidelines for in-depth scholarly cataloguing. In this new project, however, a selection of manuscripts was chosen according to scholarly criteria. The project focuses on the extremely richtransmission of manuscripts from one of the most prosperous eras of the monastery, namely that of the Benedictine Reform of the fifteenth century, from which around 800 volumes are preserved. Many of the manuscripts in question transmit a plethora of short works, e.g. academic texts from the University of Vienna, which cannot be catalogued in an in depth-project resulting in a series of printed catalogues in the foreseeable future, especially since this collection of manuscripts has not been as thoroughly researched as manuscripts from earlier centuries. This highly relevant corpus of manuscripts will therefore be made accessible to the scholarly public by digitizing a selection of 339 manuscripts from the original. This digitization project will be accompanied by a new cataloguing project in the form of an inventory list according to DFG standards, which enriches the information from existing older inventories with new codicological findings from an autopsy of each volume and current research results.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)