Use and Study of Special Documents

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Use and Study of Special Documents

Veranstalter
JGU Mainz, Abt. für Mittlere und Neuere Kirchengeschichte (Partner reires.eu)
Veranstaltungsort
Mainz
Ort
Mainz
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
23.09.2018 - 28.09.2018
Deadline
21.08.2018
Website
http://reires.eu/1426/school-in-mainz-use-and-study-of-special-documents/06/
Von
Claus Arnold

ReIReS is a starting community of twelve European institutions that are building a highly qualified infrastructure on religious studies. It initiates, improves and professionalizes the training of scholars. The first school will be held September 23-28, 2018 on the use and study of special documents and is organised by the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.
During the one week-school, scholars will be introduced to the special collections of and the ongoing research in the Martinus-Bibliothek – Wissenschaftliche Diözesanbibliothek des Bistums Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Theologie und Jüdische Bibliothek/Jewish Library, the Gesangbucharchiv/Hymnbook Archive and the Wissenschaftliche Stadtbibliothek Mainz/Municipal Academic Library in Mainz.
The school is open to scholars affiliated to the ReIReS consortium and to max. 5 persons from outside the consortium. Scholars from outside the consortium will pay a registration fee of € 395.
Scholars will be made familiar with special, less known and remote collections like the fragments (some of them from the 9th cent.) in the Martinus-Bibliothek and the world’s most important collection of utilitarian Christian literature in the Hymnbook Archive. Also unique is the Jewish Library which is one of the very few libraries saved from the persecutions in Germany and which shows the reading interests of the Jewish community of the time. The Wissenschaftliche Stadtbibliothek holds 1300 manuscripts and a decent number of rare prints from the former Carthusian and Carmelite libraries which mirror the active religious reflection in the convents between the late middle ages and the Enlightenment. These libraries indeed reflect in their holdings the religious history of Europe.
The school will focus on book history and provenance research with practice on reading ownership entries, research on former owners and analysis of the results and will also train the users in palaeography and version comparison (hymn books).

Programm

Sunday, September 23th, 2018
Arrival
19:00 Meeting, Dinner

Monday, September 24th, 2018

Martinus-Bibliothek – Wissenschaftliche Diözesanbibliothek/Library of the Mainz Seminary,

9:00: Welcome and introduction
Presentation of ReIReS – Structure and Goals
Dr. Christoph Winterer: Visit to Treasure Room with a short introduction to the special collections of the Martinus-Bibliothek
Training: How to find and identify medieval fragments. Strategies, resources, and further readings

Tuesday, September 25th, 2018

Gesangbucharchiv/Hymnbook Archive at JGU Mainz, Philosophicum,
Prof. Dr. Ansgar Franz/Dr. Christiane Schäfer: Presentation of the Hymnbook Archive, the hymnal and breviary bibliography, and the Catalogue of hymns

Training: Comparison of different versions of hymns – what is the intention of the alterations in different historic and religious contexts?

Wednesday, September 26th, 2018

Bereichsbibliothek Theologie und Jüdische Bibliothek/Jewish Library, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität

Prof. Dr. Andreas Lehnardt: The Old Jewish Library in Mainz and its Hebrew, Yiddish and German collection

Training: Reading interests in the medieval and modern Jewish communities of Mainz

Train the Trainers Course

Thursday, September 27th, 2018

Wissenschaftliche Stadtbibliothek Mainz/Municipal Academic Library, Rheinallee 3B, 55116 Mainz
Dr. Annelen Ottermann: Provenance research on historical book collections: motivation, aims, methods and the role of the libraries in the support of research

Training on historical books of the former library of the Carmelites in Mainz in the 17th century: How to detect/identify provenances, practice on reading ownership entries, research on former owners and analysis of the results

Visit of the restoration workshop: Presentation of manuscript restoration and preservation

Friday, September 28th, 2018

Martinus-Bibliothek – Wissenschaftliche Diözesanbibliothek, Grebenstraße 8, 55116 Mainz

Prof. Dr. Claus Arnold, Palaeographical Training (Latin Palaeography of the Early Modern period)

Evaluation of the Training

Departure

Accompanying programme
Tour on St. Martin’s Cathedral and the old town of Mainz, St. Stephan and the windows by Marc Chagall

Gutenberg-Museum (the special exhibition starts September 21st: “Gutenberg2018: Ausstellung –Ohne Zweifel Gutenberg? Die Erfindung des Buchdrucks in Europa und Asien”/”Exhibition – Gutenberg without a doubt? The invention of printing in Europe and Asia”)

Eberbach Monastery

Kontakt

Alexandra Nusser M.A.

JGU Mainz, FB 01, Mittlere und Neuere Kirchengeschichte, ReIReS

nusser@uni-mainz.de

http://reires.eu/1426/school-in-mainz-use-and-study-of-special-documents/06/