1 00:00:00,890 --> 00:00:13,380 George. Good morning. 2 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:18,590 Welcome, everybody, to the master class meeting manuscripts. 3 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:23,420 You are here at a historic moment. It's for the first time. 4 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:29,030 But the three manuscripts that you see on the top shelf there and the one 5 00:00:29,030 --> 00:00:37,340 manuscript Martin Kaufmann is just arranging all together since probably 1722. 6 00:00:38,540 --> 00:00:45,270 So we are I'm very pleased, but also chemical. 7 00:00:45,290 --> 00:00:56,660 It's allowed the exceptional transport of a down the road from Akiba College here to the library. 8 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,560 Thanks a lot, Yvonne, for for making this possible. 9 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:04,730 Thanks a lot to Martin for doing this. 10 00:01:05,570 --> 00:01:14,810 The way we are running it is there will be a mix of comparative slides and the use use of the. 11 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:28,280 Visualiser. So what you now see are multiple fingers and the assembly of the meeting nuns and the Lunenburg 12 00:01:28,310 --> 00:01:36,770 townspeople as pictured in the prayer book from around 1500 in the Bodleian Library. 13 00:01:37,220 --> 00:01:40,400 And just just to start from this image, 14 00:01:40,610 --> 00:01:51,499 which I think is it's quite iconic for how the nuns viewed their own manuscript production as something that would bring together a town and gown, 15 00:01:51,500 --> 00:02:03,850 as it were. And so the people from the convent and the lay people from Lüneburg, so they are together worshipping. 16 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:09,560 And the town people say in or sing in low German. 17 00:02:09,770 --> 00:02:14,230 Or that their voice is to be believed. Oh, sweet day. 18 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,360 If only you could stay with us. So I feel a bit like that. 19 00:02:18,140 --> 00:02:32,540 And it has been really splendid to have so many come together to focus on on this manuscript of Switch Back to the Lectern. 20 00:02:32,870 --> 00:02:47,030 Yeah. What we are going to do sort of is to have some kind of spotlight presentations on different aspects of the manuscript running through. 21 00:02:49,630 --> 00:02:56,060 And you're welcome to interrupt in between and put up questions and then. 22 00:02:57,900 --> 00:03:07,410 After that, there should hopefully be another hour of time left to really come forward and look at the manuscript in the flesh, 23 00:03:07,410 --> 00:03:11,640 as it were, and discuss further. 24 00:03:11,940 --> 00:03:20,700 But I thought it such a unique opportunity to have together in one place experts from all these different fields. 25 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:34,980 I had tried to put together a panel of interdisciplinary competitions to highlight the interdisciplinary nature of manuscript studies. 26 00:03:37,430 --> 00:03:42,890 Just as a very, very brief introduction where we are. 27 00:03:43,540 --> 00:03:52,400 And so we are in northern Germany. We are at the time of the Hanseatic League, late 15th century. 28 00:03:52,760 --> 00:04:00,260 And we are in the region of the northern German convents. 29 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:08,750 And we have today with us the ABS here from McKinsey. 30 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:14,670 One of the kind like converts the wrong ones on the comeback comment. 31 00:04:16,690 --> 00:04:33,120 And. The time we are talking about is really the time frame between 1479 when the reform took place and 1526 32 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:42,240 to the date when the nuns through or the abbess threw the Luther Bible into the brewery fire and. 33 00:04:45,030 --> 00:04:48,360 What we have between the two is it's really, I think, 34 00:04:48,510 --> 00:05:02,790 quite an exceptional explosion of manuscript production and also an attempt to disseminate knowledge and to show things. 35 00:05:02,790 --> 00:05:09,390 And I've reproduced the alphabet from a little primer. 36 00:05:10,530 --> 00:05:20,580 MARTIN Could you just hold that if we don't have a chance in getting a but I've done a mock up of it which can pass around, 37 00:05:20,790 --> 00:05:35,490 just to give you the idea, if you want to, just and of how the nuns achieved this style of how to write proper gothic. 38 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:40,890 So you have a simple alphabet and you have simple prayers to copy out. 39 00:05:41,460 --> 00:05:49,680 And so to to reach this style of a whole community of writing in the spirit of the reform together. 40 00:05:50,070 --> 00:05:54,090 And those are what we talked before. 41 00:05:54,090 --> 00:05:59,069 So probably most of you will have heard the little poem, 42 00:05:59,070 --> 00:06:09,719 which I think is just a good introduction in this kind of spirit of enterprise connected with manuscript production, 43 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,150 meeting the lunches at Prelude, 44 00:06:12,150 --> 00:06:25,290 you'll sit at this enormous studio wall and soft frost on Cocina stuck in Orzo closed Carla's hoy evokes your mist leaves and is overdone. 45 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:35,610 So really this injunction of not engaging with reading and writing is something that is not merely 46 00:06:35,610 --> 00:06:45,839 lazy but decidedly evil can explain part of this amazing production as a way of introduction, 47 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:49,620 I want to show you three. 48 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:59,440 Pieces. So this is the menu for the meeting proposed. 49 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:07,740 We're the one that was heavily reworked in 1479. 50 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:24,630 And this has. The ownership mark of the convent or the novel Use Ecclesia is anchored in multilevel gayness, its sanctimony in meeting. 51 00:07:26,020 --> 00:07:33,669 It's one of the few ownership marks that we have in the extant manuscripts because the nuns 52 00:07:33,670 --> 00:07:39,490 and their personal prayer books would of course not write the ownership mark of the convent. 53 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:44,589 So this is the one for for the provost done by the nuns. 54 00:07:44,590 --> 00:08:00,520 And in there they. It's a bit of a kind of copyright for this particular form of liturgy that was only really used in the meeting. 55 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:07,900 So of the four manuscripts that we have, this is the only ownership mark for all the other manuscripts. 56 00:08:08,110 --> 00:08:11,530 We have to go. Yeah. Detective work. 57 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,700 Finding comparative elements, linking elements. 58 00:08:15,700 --> 00:08:23,019 And we'll hear about different ways in which these manuscripts are linked either while why are binding via their content, 59 00:08:23,020 --> 00:08:29,260 via their prayers or via the punctuation, as we'll also see. 60 00:08:31,350 --> 00:08:43,490 The next. I think I would like to show is something I showed yesterday in the lecture, but only in the on a slide. 61 00:08:44,210 --> 00:08:53,900 And that is the way in which the new orderly and meeting souls are can be located. 62 00:08:53,900 --> 00:09:00,350 At meeting you see the different size of it. It's very good to have a multi-centre. 63 00:09:02,390 --> 00:09:06,740 So that is the calendar page for December. 64 00:09:11,370 --> 00:09:21,930 Oh, I think. No, you're right. It's not to say I'm sorry. It's the Ed entry for McCarthy to pull from on the day of. 65 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:27,540 So. Margaret. So you see Mark. 66 00:09:27,930 --> 00:09:32,510 Martin, could you point at the blue initial? We probably see on the top. 67 00:09:33,660 --> 00:09:37,799 Yeah. All right. 68 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:48,540 Sorry. Yeah. The blue initial here is for the day of Marguerita and the day of the Virgin. 69 00:09:49,110 --> 00:09:52,230 Margaret with the eye of it. 70 00:09:52,650 --> 00:09:59,570 And then. Behind it, you see the o of abbreviation for the obits. 71 00:10:00,260 --> 00:10:13,460 And then you have a linking line going down to a dominant magazine to perform a baptism of fidelity to a cleric called the Alzheimer Martyr, 72 00:10:14,420 --> 00:10:18,140 which is linked. You can just see it in the fold up there. 73 00:10:18,290 --> 00:10:27,440 And we know from charters that she indeed died on the 13th of July on St Margaret's day. 74 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:42,079 And you see this characteristic mix of red and blue ink for a name which is used in the soul to always to mark out especially important names. 75 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:50,660 And both Marguerite the saint and Marguerite the abbess have this mix of colours. 76 00:10:52,950 --> 00:10:59,190 So this is another way of localising by looking at the calendar entries. 77 00:11:00,980 --> 00:11:12,600 And then in the manuscript we saw at the beginning the prayer book we have on the one hand, 78 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:20,520 the image we just saw of the nuns and the town people and their their habit is the give away. 79 00:11:23,070 --> 00:11:36,760 Could you show it again and please. And we will discuss this binding later. 80 00:11:36,780 --> 00:11:46,920 I think that it has all of the same binding stems that a prayer book is one in Berlin has. 81 00:11:47,370 --> 00:11:50,460 Yeah, I think the Venus could. 82 00:11:51,510 --> 00:11:58,970 So. You see, the first three have the, uh, 83 00:11:59,780 --> 00:12:12,020 they all have the white habit of the cistercians and they changed their habits to sport red crosses on a vale in the reform. 84 00:12:12,290 --> 00:12:23,660 So this shows that it's post reform. And the last one is a late sister who is included in the train community of the comments. 85 00:12:23,780 --> 00:12:28,280 And they had a round. 86 00:12:29,420 --> 00:12:32,780 I'm always better with terminology on closing, 87 00:12:32,830 --> 00:12:49,940 but however with the less strict stigmata and not quite and and that they are very proudly 88 00:12:49,940 --> 00:12:58,970 showing off the same white dress that Saint Bernard of Clairvaux was wearing as his Babygro. 89 00:13:00,290 --> 00:13:04,280 So yeah. Why the layup line? That's on the best. 90 00:13:06,510 --> 00:13:12,540 All right. And then in the same manuscript, if I could have a 28 version. 91 00:13:37,010 --> 00:13:43,180 I'm. If you look at that line. 92 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:48,950 You see the name Luna, both of written out. 93 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:54,690 So this is a prayer for exile. 94 00:13:54,980 --> 00:13:58,460 The Satellite Image catalogue. What about his? 95 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:11,920 Not quite positive at CONFESSORE and no storm to thank the congregation and no skunkworks locum is still at Omnia at North Pelton, NCR. 96 00:14:12,220 --> 00:14:24,640 CB Tata Unit boss popular Martin Fortis as always on this media and what's your no come missiles the CPS zip the axilla 97 00:14:24,970 --> 00:14:33,580 me to your this you may resort to it and not be with me to a victory or this email is like Tunis it's fortissimo. 98 00:14:33,750 --> 00:14:38,829 Hopalong Austin Benton tool puts your design arena a crazy tom in. 99 00:14:38,830 --> 00:14:47,229 He is Pascal Eagle Scout is creator Temple all consists of conservative dignitaries and so an Easter 100 00:14:47,230 --> 00:14:55,780 prayer that includes the community within the convent and the community of the birth family, 101 00:14:55,780 --> 00:14:58,840 as it were, in Lunenburg. 102 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,350 So that is the other way to locate. 103 00:15:02,350 --> 00:15:15,880 And they. The manuscript dates because only a before the reform, the other highest office in the convent was the Prioress, 104 00:15:16,900 --> 00:15:23,130 and the convent then applied successfully to be upgraded, 105 00:15:23,150 --> 00:15:33,250 as it were, after the reform, to have an Ebbers, which they claimed was usual for Cistercians, and they were fully Cistercian. 106 00:15:33,550 --> 00:15:41,350 So now that Prioress should be called abbess, and this also meant a reversal of hierarchy. 107 00:15:41,650 --> 00:15:51,670 So the abbess was above the provost while before the provost had higher spiritual authority than the Prioress, despite being prior. 108 00:15:52,030 --> 00:15:58,270 And so this tells us this was after the date because it invokes. 109 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:04,880 The evidence on that was in the. 110 00:16:05,630 --> 00:16:08,870 No, no, no. 1479 was the convention reform. 111 00:16:09,230 --> 00:16:13,250 And then they took a decade of lobbying to be upgraded. 112 00:16:14,060 --> 00:16:27,920 94? Yeah. 94. Yeah. So moderate Popham, who had managed to the reform very successfully, then became from Prioress. 113 00:16:29,210 --> 00:16:34,360 That first episode. That's it for my part. 114 00:16:34,370 --> 00:16:44,560 I'll hand over to. Andrew.