Saint George sermons

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The Sankt Georgener Sermons are a collection of 39 German sermons compiled around 1300 , handed down in the holdings of the early modern Villingen Georgskloster, originally from the Sankt Georgen monastic community in the Black Forest . It is attested there in the 17th century, and that is why it got its name, which has nothing to do with the original origin of the manuscript and collection.

The eponymous manuscript is preserved as Codex St. Georgen 36 in the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe. This is bound in a modern, red leather binding with two clasps. The Codex consists of 109 parchment - leaves the size of 11.6 cm x 17.3 cm. The pages are written in two columns, each with a large fleuronné- style initial (two-tone) introduces a new sermon. In the case of the capital letters in the text, which mark the beginning of sentences and incisions, the colors red and blue - also designed in the fleuronné style - usually alternate. The minuscule font is Gothic . The manuscript is dated to the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries.

The content of the St. Georgen collection of sermons is more important than the form. The manuscript contains 39 German monastery sermons, which were originally compiled in a Cistercian monastery at the beginning of the 2nd quarter of the 13th century without any recognizable arrangement . The sermons were probably targeted at nuns . The spiritual and devotional texts contain short sermons, religious tracts, devotional texts without preaching shape and treat theologically challenging issues such as the Trinity , Christology , Mariology , Eucharist or mystical experiences .

The St. Georgen collection of sermons is comprehensible in a broad tradition of 28 manuscripts . Two Alemannic manuscripts date from the middle of the 13th century; the Freiburg manuscript ( Hs. 464 ) is a collection that has been expanded to include so-called Swiss sermons . Further manuscripts can be found in the areas of Bavarian, West and East Central German as well as Dutch. There are no known copies of the collection of sermons made after 1500. The St. Georgener Prediger 'was never printed either.

The St. Georgener Prediger 'belongs to one of the three large collections of sermons from the 13th and early 14th centuries: At the end of the 13th century, i.e. around the same time, the Black Forest Sermons , the most extensive collection of sample sermons of the late Middle Ages and probably Franciscan sermons , were created Origin. Finally, the German sermons emphasize the importance of the Franciscan people's preacher Berthold von Regensburg (* around 1210- † 1272), to whom they are ascribed.

Tradition (main manuscripts)

  • Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe, Codex St. Georgen 36
  • Freiburg University Library, Hs. 464

literature

  • Regina D. Schiewer and Kurt Otto Seidel (eds.), Die St. Georgener Sermons , Berlin 2010, (German texts from the Middle Ages 90)
  • Seidel, Kurt Otto, The Sankt Georgener Sermons and their co-tradition , in: The German Sermon in the Middle Ages, ed. v. V. Mertens u. H.-J. Schiewer, 1992, pp. 18-30
  • Seidel, Kurt Otto, The Sankt Georgener Sermons , 1982
  • Wolfgang Frühwald , The St. Georgen Preacher , 1963
  • Lüders, Eva, On the tradition of the Sankt Georgener Sermons , in: Studia Neophilologica 29 (1957), pp. 200–249; 30: 30-77 (1958); 32: 123-187 (1960)
  • Rieder, Karl (ed.), The so-called St. Georgen Preacher from the Freiburg and Karlsruhe manuscripts published , 1908 ( online )
  • HJ Kern (ed.), De Limburgsche Sermoenen , 1895
  • Sankt Georgener Sermons , arr. v. Kurt Otto Seidel, in: Lexikon des Mittelalters , Vol. 7, Sp. 1159f
  • Sermon , arr. v. H.-J. Schiewer, in: Lexikon des Mittelalters, Vol. 7, Sp. 174ff

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