Margaretha Ursula von Masmünster

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Margaretha Ursula von Masmünster (* around 1400; † 1447 or 1448 in Basel ) was a Dominican nun and author of the devotional exercise "Spiritual Sea Voyage".

Margaretha Ursula (Gredursula) came from the Alsatian noble family von Masmünster . As a four-year-old girl handed over to the Dominican convent Schönensteinbach Monastery , she was active in the observance movement of the Dominican Order. In 1419 she was involved in the reform of the Unterlinden monastery in Colmar , and in 1423 in the reform of the Dominican monastery in Basel . A few years later she was elected prioress in this monastery, she is documented 1426-1432.

The nun is named as the originator of a spiritual devotional exercise for Lent before Easter, the spiritual sea voyage . This briefly executed pilgrimage in the spirit , which can also be seen as a ship allegory, served the participants and the nuns as an integration framework for various spiritual exercises. One imagined that one was on a pilgrimage and on the high seas: “To symbolize challenges to the true Christian faith in the worldly as well as in the spiritual life, the sea voyage makes use of waves and adverse winds, as is characteristic of pilgrimages See “(Carls p. 39). The text was mainly disseminated through its inclusion in the book of the replacement of the Dominican Johannes Meyer.

Tradition of the spiritual sea voyage

Eleven manuscripts are currently known (according to the lists by Schmidtke 1969, p. 367f .; 1970, p. 116 and 1985 in the author's lexicon and Graf 2010).

Complete manuscripts of the Book of Replacement by Johannes Meyer :

  • Leipzig, University Library, Ms. 1548, Bl. 242r-246r ( digitized version )
  • Überlingen, Leopold Sopien Library, Ms. 5, Bl. 357r-360r

In the context of the writings of Johannes Meyers, the Spiritual Sea Voyage is narrated in:

  • Tübingen, University Library, Md 456, Bl. 56r-62r (gift from the Dominican Sisters of St. Katharina in St. Gallen to Inzigkofen Abbey in 1484) ( digitized version )

Further tradition:

  • Tübingen, University Library, Md 129, Bl. 352v-355v (1st half of the 15th century, from the Augustinian Hermit Convent Schwäbisch Gmünd )
  • Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 559, Bl. 19r-36r (from the Dominican convent of St. Margaretha in Strasbourg, end of the 15th century)
  • Augsburg, University Library, Cod. III.1.8.50, Bl. 156v-164v (from the Cistercian convent Kirchheim im Ries, 2nd quarter of the 16th century)
  • Sigmaringen, Court Library, Cod. 442, Bl. 178–212 (from the Stetten Monastery , written in 1543 by Sister Anna Heltzlin)
  • Augsburg, University Library, Cod. III.2.4.34, Bl. 331r-333v (also from Kirchheim im Ries, second half of the 16th century)
  • Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek , St. Georgen 94, Bl. 128r-134r (1st half of the 16th century), ( digitized version )
  • Freiburg, University Library , Hs. 202, Bl. 189v-191v (entry from the 16th century), ( digitized version )
  • Freiburg, University Library, Hs. 186, pp. 264–267 (from 1643, probably going back to Hs. 202)

literature

  • Johann Adam Kraus: A 500 year report from Jerusalem . In: Das Heilige Land 87 (1955), H. 1/2, P. 10-15 (modernized rendering of the script)
  • Dietrich Schmidtke: Spiritual shipping. On the theme of the ship of penance in the late Middle Ages . In: Contributions to the history of the German language and literature . Volume 91, Tübingen 1969, pp. 357-387 and Volume 92, 1970, pp. 115-177
  • Dietrich Schmidtke in: author lexicon . 2nd Edition. Vol. 5, 1985, col. 1250-1251
  • Wieland Carls: Felix Fabri, Die Sionpilger . Berlin 1999, p. 38f.

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ See Klaus Graf . In: Archivalia of August 30, 2010, https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/16261 .
personal data
SURNAME Masmünster, Margaretha Ursula from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spiritual writer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1400
DATE OF DEATH 1447 or 1448
Place of death Basel