The German Research Foundation (DFG) is supporting a research project by Dr. Jana Ilnicka at the Max-Weber-Kolleg of the University of Erfurt with funding totalling up to around 328,000 euros. It is entitled „The rediscovered manuscript MS Eisenach 1361 of the Wartburg Foundation and its partial parallels: Edition and Situations in Space and Time“ and is to be worked on over the next three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Wartburg manuscript Ms Eisenach \n1361-50 is a codex of 108 single-column leaves written on both sides \n(216 pages), 115×85 mm in size, produced in the XIV century and written \nin a West Middle High German dialect. It was originally in the \nPremonstratensian convent of Altenberg, before it first came into \nprivate ownership and then into the holdings of the Wartburg Foundation.\n The manuscript begins with thirteen psalms (2r-24v), all translated \ninto Middle High German. This is followed by an anonymous sermon on the \nfeast of the Assumption (25r-33r). From leaf 34r a series of 70 text \npieces begins (34r-108v), some of them very short, the others longer. \nThe last piece of text (n. 70) begins on fol. 108v and is not complete, \nas one leaf in the manuscript has been torn out. From fol. 34r on, the \nmanuscript has partial parallels with the manuscript Berlin, SBB-PK, Ms.\n germ. fol. 986, and there are still some similar fragments in a Munich \nmanuscript, Munich Cgm. 5235 (4th v. XIV Cologne?, M60).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of the 70 text pieces begin with the author’s name: Thomas \nAquinas and Meister Eckhart are the two authorities mentioned by name as\n authors in this manuscript („Meister Thomas sagt“ or „Meister Eckhart \nsagt“), the others are anonymous („Ein Meister sagt“, „Einige Meister \nsagen“, „Es gibt eine Frage“). Some of the texts attributed to Meister \nEckhart were edited by the first editor of Meister Eckhart’s German \nworks, Franz Pfeiffer, as „sayings“ in his Eckhart edition of 1857. Some\n of these sayings were then identified by Heinrich Denifle (about 30 \nyears later) and Josef Koch (about 100 years later) as edited \ntranslations of Eckhart’s Latin works translated into German, but the \nmanuscript itself was considered lost since 1909 and Eckhart’s \nauthorship of these pieces was widely disputed. The other texts, which \nwere known at least from the partial parallel manuscript in Berlin, had \nnot been researched since then. But a few years ago, Bal\u00e1zs J. Nemes and\n Markus Vinzent discovered this manuscript in the library of the \nWartburg Foundation. As part of her research project, Jana Ilnicka will \nprepare a critical edition of this manuscript and make these texts \naccessible to researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
„The sample analysis of the manuscript so far has shown that these \ntexts cannot be understood directly on their own, but must be introduced\n into the context of the philosophical-theological debate of the time, \nand that it is only out of this context that their precise contents \nemerge,“ Ilnicka reports. Such a contextualising analysis would then \nalso make it possible to correct the information on authorship and \ncontribute to research on the state of the debate in the 14th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
„The language of the Wartburg manuscript, Middle High German, shows \nthat the highly speculative theological themes were recorded in a \nvernacular, i.e., in a non-university setting. Therefore, the precise \nanalysis of these texts will allow us to take a completely new look at \nlay education in the 14th century. Among other things, this concerns \nwomen’s education at the time, which, as the Wartburg manuscript \nsuggests, cannot be reduced to „women’s mysticism“ alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For her work, Jana Ilnicka, who has already worked intensively on \nMeister Eckhart as part of her dissertation, will find competent \ndiscussion partners for these questions at the Max-Weber-Kolleg of the \nUniversity of Erfurt, or more precisely, at the Meister Eckhart Research\n Centre located there. She will begin her work on 1 February 2021 – in \nthe first step with the transcription of the manuscript. At the end of \nher research, she will present an annotated edition of the manuscript.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The German Research Foundation (DFG) is supporting a research project by Dr. Jana Ilnicka at the Max-Weber-Kolleg of the University of Erfurt with funding totalling up to around 328,000 euros. It is entitled „The rediscovered manuscript MS Eisenach 1361 of the Wartburg Foundation and its partial parallels: Edition and Situations in Space and Time“ and … „Jana Ilnicka edits rediscovered manuscript MS Eisenach 1361“ <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[12,572,81],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}