Oculus Memoriae

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The Oculus Memoriae (German: Eye of Memory ) is the oldest inventory of goods in the Eberbach Monastery . The document from 1211 that has been preserved provides information about the abbey's possessions. In the 13th century, this comprised around 25,000 acres in 205 localities. The author of the document is the Eberbacher Cistercian monk Bernhelm who is documented as a notary of the monastery from 1208 to 1228 .

After the secularization of the monastery in 1803, the directory was kept in the Nassau State Library for a few years . From there it was passed on to a bookbinder so that the manuscript could be used as working material. However, the diplomat Wilhelm Dorow succeeded in acquiring the Oculus Memoriae in 1821. Via a stopover, the manuscript came into the possession of the librarian Helfrich Bernhard Hundeshagen, who sold it in 1842 to the Association for Nassau Antiquity and Historical Research. In 1874 he transferred it to the care of the State Archives in Wiesbaden, where it is kept to this day. From 1981 to 1987 a comprehensive, source-critical multi-volume edition of the document was published.

literature

  • Pupil, Winfried: to preserve, to experience, to understand, 200 years of the association for Nassau antiquity and historical research . Association for Nassau Antiquity and Historical Research, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-9815190-1-3 , p. 49 .
  • Heinrich Meyer zu Ermgassen: "The Oculus Memorie, a list of goods from 1211 from Eberbach Monastery in the Rheingau" , Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1970 (Volume 31) / (Dissertation)
  • Renkhoff, Otto : Nassau biography . Historical Commission for Nassau , Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-922244-90-4 , p. 50 .

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