Die mittelalterlichen Handschriften des Stiftes Nonnberg in Salzburg

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This academic catalogue offers unprecedented access to the medieval manuscripts and fragments housed in the Benedictine Convent of Nonnberg in Salzburg, established in the early 8th century. The library's collection includes 108 manuscripts and 125 fragments dating from the early 9th to the mid-16th century. Unlike other monasteries, Nonnberg possesses few complete Latin manuscripts, all focused on liturgical content, such as breviaries, psalters, litanies, processionals, antiphonals, and hymnals. The fragments, predominantly in Latin, primarily consist of liturgical texts. The German manuscripts cover a range of religious themes, including prayer books, biblical passages (like the epistles of Paul and the Gospels), accounts of Christ's life, exegeses of the Rule of Saint Benedict, acts of saints, and various devotional texts. In contrast to the codices previously owned by the monastery, now located in Munich and American libraries, the remaining manuscripts at Nonnberg are mainly practical paper manuscripts lacking representative significance. Most manuscripts feature minimal ornamentation, primarily rubrications, though some prayer books include higher-quality miniatures of saints, as well as woodcuts and engravings in 16th-century codices.