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Rudolph Feierabend (* before 1270 in Augsburg , † after 1313 in Kaisheim ) was a clergyman and clergyman in the Kaisheim monastery .

origin

Rudolph Feierabend (in old sources also "Veirabend"), who comes from an Augsburg bourgeois family, is likely to have joined the Cistercians in the Kaisheim monastery near Augsburg as a novice in the 13th century . In any case, a “brother Rudolf von Chaisheim” is already attested on May 21, 1289 in Landshut.

Work as a monastery clerk

Rudolph Feierabend worked at the beginning of the 14th century under Abbot Johann I. Chonold (1302-1320) and Prior Rudger in the scriptorium of the Cistercian monastery in Kaisheim as a "chair writer". In the late Middle Ages, this was a term used for civil professional and wage clerks who, among other things, wrote writings for the right-wing parties at the court seat. Chair scribes also worked for monasteries, where they copied manuscripts for a fee.

At the beginning of German-speaking tradition, such scribes were found in a few princely houses and exclusively in better-equipped monasteries, which had always had their own scriptoria (writing rooms). In Augsburg, where the institution of the chair writer was well established, other writers such as Conrad Bollstädter and Werner von Eichstett were also active in addition to after work. The Kaisheim Monastery in particular seems to have been a center of scientific activity in the 13th century.

According to the chronology “Historia caesariensis seu extractus memorabilium Caesareae” from brother Cölestin Angelspugger from 1764, after work was known as a “good” chair scribe and wrote a large number of works at the monastery. Today, however, like most monastic manuscripts, these can no longer be assigned to individual scribes (an exception for the Kaisheim monastery is the formula book “Prsaici dictaminis” by Brother Bernold, dating from 1312).

Whereabouts

In the evening further activity after its last mention for the year 1313 is not recorded. But he must have worked at the Kaisheim monastery for the rest of his life.

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• Bavarian Academy of Sciences: Sources for discussing Bavarian history, 1863, p. 841
• Wilhelm Wattenbach: The writing system in the Middle Ages, 1896, p. 480
• Johann Knebel, Franz Hüttner: The Chronicle of the Kaisheim Monastery, 1902, p. 111
• Historical Association for Lower Bavaria: Negotiations 1989, p. 121