About the Project
Manuscripts from German-Speaking Lands is a three-year collaboration between the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford and the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. Funded by The Polonsky Foundation, the project seeks to open up the medieval German manuscript collections of two world-class libraries for research and reuse. The two libraries will digitize nearly 600 medieval manuscripts of Germanic origin between 2019 and 2021.
Steering Committee
- Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian
- Peter Burschel, Director of the Herzog August Bibliothek
- Martin Kauffmann, Head of Early and Rare Collections
- Christian Heitzmann, Leiter der Abteilung Handschriften und Sondersammlungen
- Emma Stanford, Project Manager (non-voting member)
Academic Advisory Group
- Thomas Haye, Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin Literature, Universität Göttingen
- Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, University of Oxford
- Claudine Moulin, Professor of Historical Linguistics, Universität Trier
- Stephen Mossman, Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Manchester
- Nigel Palmer, Emeritus Professor of German Medieval and Linguistic Studies, University of Oxford
- Eva Schlotheuber, Professor Medieval History, Universität Düsseldorf
Contact
Bodleian Libraries
- digitalsupport@bodleian.ox.ac.uk (technical queries or general queries about the project)
- specialcollections@bodleian.ox.ac.uk (manuscript queries)
- imaging@bodleian.ox.ac.uk (image reuse queries)
Herzog August Bibliothek
- auskunft@hab.de
Site Credits
- Design: Gabriel Ignat
- Translation: Jennifer Bunselmeier and Stephanie Hathaway
- Editing and Content Production: Emma Stanford, Tim Dungate and Joanna Bek