"Doberan book treasures from the monastery" lecture by Paul Nebauer
LECTURE: "Doberan book treasures from the monastery"
WHEN: November 28, 2024 - 6 p.m.
WHERE: Auditorium of the Bad Doberan grammar school
Doberan book treasures from the 12th and 13th centuries from the daughter monastery Pelplin - pious and erotic
A lecture by Paul Nebauer, member of the extended board of the monastery association and head of the working group "Research
Books have always been the treasures of abbeys. They were written in their own scriptorium, lent to other monasteries to make copies, scribes traveled to neighboring monasteries to make copies. However, the search for these treasures is often laborious. Now it has been possible to locate and photograph Doberan manuscripts in the daughter monastery of Pelplin. Thanks to good preparations with those responsible at the diocesan library in Pelplin, Dietmar Schulze and Paul Nebauer were able to take around 1,250 pictures, which reproduce around 1,770 pages of Doberan manuscripts. The Doberan manuscripts of the 12th and 13th centuries reflect the simplicity of the Cistercians in the Middle Ages. There are no striking initials or pictures. (Black ink predominates here. Red ink is only used for incipit initials to emphasize certain letters at the beginning of a section or entire passages). Only a few initials are multicolored and mainly show floral ornaments. Instead, they are exciting texts that cover almost every genre permitted at the time.
