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Gregory Heyworth is a scholar of medieval literature and the multispectral imaging of manuscripts.

(loosely translated from the German wiki)

The poem "Christ and the Loving Soul," a text of roughly 2000 lines, is a late-medieval German work of didactic literature based on a series of images about the courtship and marriage of Christ and the personified soul of the devotee.

Various strands of Christian devotion encourage a form of piety that leads the believer to both a direct vision of God and to union with God (unio mystica). The "loving soul" in the poem stands for the believer who, as the "loving soul", is the (female) bride of the heavenly (male) bridegroom Jesus Christ. “Christ and the loving soul” describes the allegorical dialogue between bride and groom. In the first part of the book, the secular, dominant marriage with the subordination of women to men plays an essential role. The second part of the illustrated “arc of images” looks different: instead of subordination and overriding, instead of female passivity (also in the sense of suffering), instead of alienation of the spouse, it is now the woman or the soul that actively demands a decision in favor Christ falls: "I would rather cling to you. / I want you, dear lord, now allain." Togetherness and erotic privacy create the unio mystica in the turning away of the lovers from the outside world: "Dear, I and you are all ain, / Alsus hosts us two. "

St. Georgen manuscript No. 89 One of the few medieval manuscripts that contain the poem is Codex St. Georgen No. 89, which comes from the Georgskloster in Villingen and is now in the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe. The paper manuscript is 14.50 cm high, 10.70 cm wide and was created around the middle of the 15th century (or after 1430). The two texts, written in the Alemannic-Swabian dialect, contain a series of colored images, such as the one on folio 1 recto, on which a later hand from the second half of the 15th century wrote the title "The minnende Seele (and the angels)". The handwriting is written in black ink, the initials are red, a red leather cover protects the pages. A fragment of a processional from the 14th century was found on the inside of the front cover, and a part of a German parchment certificate from the 15th century on the inside of the back cover.

Manuscript Mainz No. 46 A parchment fragment of the main text, also in a different version in the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe as Codex Donaueschingen 106, consists of 8 pages separated from it. It is in the holdings of the Martinus Library in Mainz as Hs 46. The fragment comes from the collection of Goethe's confidante Fritz Schlosser (1780–1851) and, together with the Karlsruhe General Codex, is dated to before 1497 and was written for the Augustinians -Chorfrauenstift Inzigkofen determined.

Web links Cod. Donaueschingen 106 in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek

literature R. Banz: Christ and the loving soul. Investigations and texts. (= Germanische Abhandlungen, Vol. 29), Breslau 1908 M. Buhlmann: The medieval manuscripts of the Villingen monastery St. Georgen (= Vertex Alemanniae, issue 27), St. Georgen 2007, pp. 29–32 The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon, ed. v. K. Ruh u. a., 11 vol., Berlin / New York 1978-2004, vol. 1, col. 1235ff H. E. Keller: From conjugal privation to erotic privacy? On the allegory of the gender relationship in “Christ and the minnating soul.” In: G. Melville, P. von Moos, P. (Ed.): The public and private in the premodern. (= Norm and Structure, Vol. 10), Cologne-Weimar-Wien 1998, pp. 461–498 W. Williams-Krapp: Bilderbogen-Mystik. To "Christ and loving soul". With edition of the Mainz tradition, in: Editions of tradition and studies on German literature of the Middle Ages. Festschrift Kurt Ruh, Tübingen 1989, pp. 350–364 Helmut Hinkel (ed.): With dance and violin playing. The Mainz miniatures from "Christ and the loving soul". Mainz / Würzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-934450-58-5 / ISBN 978-3-429-03677-5. Amy Gebauer, 'Christ and the loving soul'. An Analysis of Circulation, Text, and Iconography (Imagines Medii Aevi 26), Wiesbaden 2010

Weblinks Cod. Donaueschingen 106 in den Digitalen Sammlungen der Badischen Landesbibliothek Literatur R. Banz: Christus und die minnende Seele. Untersuchungen und Texte. (= Germanische Abhandlungen, Bd. 29), Breslau 1908 M. Buhlmann: Die mittelalterlichen Handschriften des Villinger Klosters St. Georgen (= Vertex Alemanniae, Heft 27), St. Georgen 2007, S. 29–32 Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon, hrsg. v. K. Ruh u. a., 11 Bde., Berlin/New York 1978–2004, Bd. 1, Sp. 1235ff H. E. Keller: Von ehelicher Privation zu erotischer Privatheit? Zur Allegorese der Geschlechterbeziehung in „Christus und die minnende Seele.“ In: G. Melville, P. von Moos, P. (Hrsg.): Das Öffentliche und Private in der Vormoderne. (= Norm und Struktur, Bd. 10), Köln-Weimar-Wien 1998, S. 461–498 W. Williams-Krapp: Bilderbogen-Mystik. Zu „Christus und minnende Seele“. Mit Edition der Mainzer Überlieferung, in: Überlieferungsgeschichtliche Editionen und Studien zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters. Festschrift Kurt Ruh, Tübingen 1989, S. 350–364 Helmut Hinkel (Hrsg.): Mit Tanz und Geigenspiel. Die Mainzer Miniaturen aus "Christus und die minnende Seele". Mainz / Würzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-934450-58-5/ISBN 978-3-429-03677-5. Amy Gebauer, 'Christus und die minnende Seele'. An Analysis of Circulation, Text, and Iconography (Imagines Medii Aevi 26), Wiesbaden 2010