Manuscripts of Augustine in Thuringia and Saxonia-Anhalt

Augustine of Hippo (354-430AD) is the most productive and most influential Latin author. His works are transmitted in a large number of medieval manuscripts. In order to make available a reliable working-instrument for critical editions and to facilitate further research on the history of European libraries, the Commission for Editing the Corpus of the Latin Church Fathers of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has since 1966 been providing the series of catalogues concerning "Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des Heiligen Augustinus", in which all manuscripts containing genuine or spurious works of Augustine are listed. In the context of the project we apply for the research on the manuscripts in Thuringia and Saxonia (approximately 300 manuscripts) should be accomplished within six months by contract of employment. On the basis of already examined library catalogues and secondary literature all relevant manuscripts should be inspected by autopsy, be analysed and listed in two catalogue volumes (a register by works and one by libraries) together with those manuscripts examined in the new German federal states Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Saxonia. The results of this research should grant valuable insights into the cross-linking of medieval culture and the influence of Augustine on the theological discourse in the home of the former Augustinian monk Martin Luther.

Augustine of Hippo (354-430AD) is the most productive and most influential Latin author. His works are transmitted in a large number of medieval manuscripts. In order to make available a reliable working-instrument for critical editions and to facilitate further research on the history of European libraries, the Commission for Editing the Corpus of the Latin Church Fathers of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has since 1966 been providing the series of catalogues concerning "Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des Heiligen Augustinus", in which all manuscripts containing genuine or spurious works of Augustine are listed. In the context of the project we apply for the research on the manuscripts in Thuringia and Saxonia (approximately 300 manuscripts) should be accomplished within six months by contract of employment. On the basis of already examined library catalogues and secondary literature all relevant manuscripts should be inspected by autopsy, be analysed and listed in two catalogue volumes (a register by works and one by libraries) together with those manuscripts examined in the new German federal states Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Saxonia. The results of this research should grant valuable insights into the cross-linking of medieval culture and the influence of Augustine on the theological discourse in the home of the former Augustinian monk Martin Luther.