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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