Ludovicus Librarian

Ludovicus scriptor , also Ludovicus von Wedinghausen , († after 1236 ) was a Premonstratensian , scribe and probably also an author. He worked in the Wedinghausen monastery and in the Rumbeck monastery near Arnsberg

Life

Ludovicus is mentioned nine times in sources from the Wedinghausen Monastery between 1210 and 1236. In 1210 it was first documented as Luthevicus capellanus . So then he was a chaplain . In 1222 he called himself Ludewicus scriptor . In 1224 he appears as Ludowicus canonicus in Wedinchusen. In 1229 he was pastor (plebanus) probably in Arnsberg. Between 1231 and 1236 he appears in documents as a witness as prior of the Rumbeck monastery. In the necrology of the Wedinghausen monastery he is named as Ludovicus scriptor, prior in Rumbike, canonicus noster on October 20 .

In the transcripts of the Bredelar monastery , a priest Ludewicus is recorded as a brother of the Wedinghausen provost Hartmodus in 1217 . After this entry recorded by Johann S. Seibertz , the family farm with 15 acres of land in today's deserted Thiderikeshusen was transferred to the Bredelar Cistercian monastery for the acceptance of the order of their two brothers, Heinricus and Lambertus, who lived in Stenhus (probably Steinhausen near Büren ) .

Coat of arms of the Bürener Diederikeshausen , which still served as a ministerial seat in the 14th century.

In Allodienverzeichnis of 1144 died Northeim Count Siegfried IV. Of Boyneburg is among the fiefs managers or ministerials an already Lothewicus de Thidericheshusen called with his goods. In the founding document of the city of Büren from 1195, a Radobo Lodewicus de Diderikeshusen is listed among the 32 ministerials . After the period 1986 to 1988 at the L776 carried out in the eastern area of Steinhausen ground excavations this was Diderikeshusen locates at or on the Muchtsberg. Archaeological find evaluations suggest a ministerial seat here.

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Ludovicus wrote a two-volume edition of the Old Testament with more than 60 colored initials and other book decorations from around 1220. The script is now in the Darmstadt University and State Library . It concerns the manuscript 48 vol. 1 and 2. Ludovicus calls himself in the final writing.

In a monograph on Gothic scripts , Karin Schneider wrote : “Compared to the slightly older Rhenish codices , this Canonicus uses a much more modern, more Gothicized and tightly packed book script. Double and single refraction is common in this absolutely regular, upright script. "

The book decoration is of great quality. There are large, framed, opaque initials on a blue, red, or green background at the beginning of the prologues and the individual biblical books. Both in the first and in the second volume there is an initial on a gold background. The tendrils of the initials are interspersed with figures such as dragons, animals or people. The initials at the beginning of each chapter, however, are more modest.

The manuscript contains only a figurative representation. It is a high quality representation of the Prophet Ezra . According to Hermann Knaus' judgment of the depiction, it is a "dignified figure with a prophetically transfigured face (...)". Also with this picture "one cannot think of an individual achievement, but only assume that this brush is even more good, apparently lost, created. "

A full-page scheme of verses in the form of a cross does not belong to the text of the Bible in the manuscript. A similar scheme can be found in a more recent three-volume Bible from the Bredelar monastery . At the end of the volumes of the Wedinghauser Bible there is a book curse. "Servanti benedictio, tollenti maledictio" ("Good for the keeper, woe to the thief")

Some narrative evidence suggests that the so-called home story flowed into the Old Norse Thidrek saga . This thesis, represented by Roswitha Wisniewski , has been received on various occasions, but is not undisputed. According to the chronicle of the Wedinghausen monastery or its historical timeline, at least the narrative part played here is said to have been written by its scriptor Ludovicus. The Arnsberg philologist Norbert Höing, however, rebutted the objection raised against Wisniewski's thesis that according to the old Icelandic manuscripts, homes were given a black robe that did not match the Premonstratensians.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Landesarchiv NRW, Msc. VII, No. 5726 (Bredelar Monastery).
2. ^ Joh. Suibert Seibertz: Document book for the regional and legal history of the Duchy of Westphalia , first volume, Arnsberg 1839, pp. 193–194.
3. ^ Max von Spießen: Book of arms of the Westphalian nobility. Görlitz 1901–1903. Description: Vol. 1, p. 39. Coat of arms: Vol. 2, plate 92.
4. ↑ See Johannes Bauermann: From the Elbe to the Rhine. From the regional history of East Saxony and Westphalia. Collected Studies . Aschendorff, Münster 1968. pp. 355f.
5. ↑ LAV NRW (StA Münster), Herrschaft Büren, Sig.B 801u, Certificate No. 1.
6. ^ Rudolf Bergmann: Insights into medieval country life. The border area between the Cologne Westphalia and the diocese of Paderborn. Text accompanying the exhibition Westphalian Museum of Archeology, Office for Monument Preservation, Geseke 1992.
7. ↑ cit. after Knut Hans Staub, Hanna Wiebe: On the trail of the Wedinghauser monastery library . In: Arnsberg's old writings. Manuscripts and prints from seven centuries . Strobel, Arnsberg 1988, p. 31 f .
8. ↑ cit. According to Knut Hans Staub, Hanna Wiebe :: On the trail of the Wedinghauser monastery library. In: Arnsberg's old writings. Manuscripts and prints from seven centuries. Strobel, Arnsberg 1988, p. 32 .
9. ↑ Knut Hans Staub, Hanna Wiebe: In the footsteps of the Wedinghauser monastery library. In: Arnsberg's old writings. Manuscripts and prints from seven centuries. Strobel, Arnsberg 1988, p. 32.
10. ↑ Roswitha Wisniewski: The depiction of the Niflung Sunset in the Thidrekssaga. A source-critical investigation . Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 1961, p. 263 ff .
11. ↑ Rolf Badenhausen: Wadhincúsan, monasterium Ludewici. On the Ludwig signature of the Thidreks saga. Retrieved July 14, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Susanne Kramarz-Bein: Þiðreks saga and Karlamagnús saga . In: Hansic literary relationships: The example of the Þiðreks saga and related literature . De Gruyter, Berlin, p. 200-203 .
13. ↑ See https://www.arnsberg.de/kloster-wedinghausen/kloster/einblicke/einfuehrung.php#zeittafel Accessed on January 27, 2019.
14. ^ Norbert Höing: Monastery scribe Ludovicus von Wedinghausen (1210/36) and the Thidreks saga . In: Arnsbergs Alte Schriften , Strobel, Arnsberg 1988, pp. 62–68.

literature

• Norbert Höing: Monastery scribe Ludovicus von Wedinghausen (1210/36) and the Thidreks saga. In: Arnsberg's old writings. Manuscripts and prints from 7 centuries. Overview of the valuable writings and books of the Wedinghausen monastery and the historical school library of the Laurentianum grammar school, Arnsberg 1988, pp. 63–68.
• Knut Hans Staub, Hanna Wiebe: On the trail of the Wedinghauser monastery library. In: Arnsberg's old writings. Manuscripts and prints from seven centuries. Strobel, Arnsberg 1988, p. 32

Web links

• Wedinghausen Monastery in the Westphalian document database