DATABASE: Bibliotheca Cartusiae Erfordiensis

The attempt to record the surviving book holdings of the Erfurt Charterhouse, which was dissolved in 1803, and to determine the whereabouts of the more than 1,000 volumes listed in the medieval shelf catalogue was first undertaken by Paul Lehmann in 1928. Sixty years later, Sigrid Krämer presented an updated documentation, which was published in 1989 in the first part of her reference work "Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters" (The Manuscript Heritage of the German Middle Ages). The book holdings recorded in these two inventories form the foundation of a new database. This database goes back to the working papers that Balázs Nemes has been providing in PDF format since 2020 via FreiDokplus, the institutional repository of the University of Freiburg (the last corrected and expanded version can be found here [as of: September 19, 2024]). Like the working paper, the present database, which was created in collaboration with the Digital Humanities Lab of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Freiburg, offers as up-to-date and bibliographically sound a documentation as possible on the whereabouts of books (manuscripts and incunabula) from the Erfurt Charterhouse. The documentation is based primarily on the evaluation of relevant scholarly literature (descriptive catalogues, work- and author-oriented repertories, monographs, editions, articles, etc.), but also takes into account more recent and older auction catalogues, of which the 1836 Eisleben auction catalogue of the library of the consistorial councillor Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow (1760–1831) and the 1847 auction held in Halle by the antiquarian bookshop Lippert & Schmidt deserve special mention.

The database is available at the link
https://dhlab.uni-freiburg.de/erfurterkartause/start

Additions and corrections are possible at any time and most welcome at
balazs.jozsef.nemes@germanistik.uni-freiburg.de.