2025-11-10

In the beginning was the Word: New cooperation on the medieval reception of the Bible

The biblical text of the Gospel of John and its extensive medieval commentary literature are the focus of a new cooperation between SCC and the University of Regensburg.

Beginning of the Gospel of John ‘In principio erat verbum’ (English: In the beginning was the Word) in a medieval Latin manuscript.

In the project Die philosophische Rezeption der Bibel im Mittelalter und ihre Interpretation in der „longue durée“, over 60 medieval manuscripts are being extensively transcribed, edited and enriched with metadata. The project is funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Science as part of a top professorship for Prof. Dr. Julie Casteigt. The aim is not only to edit the texts and make them accessible to the general public, but also to analyze them with the help of a modular research data infrastructure and to link them with other sources of information such as standard data or manuscript catalogs.

SCC-DEM is developing a research data repository as well as specialized services for search, annotation, analysis and visualization. In this way, approaches from qualitative and quantitative research will be brought together and enriched by additional methods (see also SCC News 1/2025).

 

Picture credits: Paris Latin 641, Bibliothèque nationale de France, source

 

Danah Tonne