medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear erudite readers and writers of the list,
can you tell me anything about the development of
guardian angels?
thanks a lot.
PN
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
culture
The University Library and the Art Historical Institute of the
University of Heidelberg have announced completion of a 2-year project
to digitize and post on the Web with extensive annotations and a search
engine twenty-seven late medieval illustrations manuscripts from the
Bibliotheca Palatina. These contain a wealth of depictions of literary
and biblical characters (there's a 5-vol. Bible, both testaments),
saints (one of the texts is the Elsässische Legenda Aurea), plants,
animals, and other natural phenomena, and realia of all sorts (esp.
agricultural implements and arms and armor).
The project's website is at:
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/fachinfo/www/kunst/digi/engl_welcome.html
Whereas the welcome page exists in English-, French-, and
German-language versions, the remainder of the site is chiefly in
German. The extensive annotations to the numerous individual ms.
illustrations do, however, offer many English-language equivalents along
with terms in the original German; these can be accessed through the
site's excellent search engine (click on "Suche"; this is in the upper
right of pages other than those reproducing pages of the mss.).
In addition to searching for specific items of interest, one can use
the freetext capability of a search under "Ikonographie" to call up a
page of thumbnails of all the illustration in a given text by entering
in the adjacent box the name of one the texts represented in this
collection (e.g., "Eneas"; the same results come up with "Veldeke" but
there are of course texts whose authors are unknown).
Well worth a look and perhaps a bookmark as well.
Best,
John Dillon
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