Multispectral imaging data of selected areas of the fragment collection B 7 owned by Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg. The multispectral images were captured on the premises of the Universitätsbibliothek in Erlangen on the 11th and 12th of November 2019 by Ivan Shevchuk assisted by Sebastian Bosh and Jana Wolf, with the kind support of Christina Hofmann-Randall (director of the Erlangen manuscript department).

The fragment collection, now preserved in a modern binding under the shelfmark B 7, assembles 32 leaves originating from different parts of a single manuscript carrying the text and illustrations of the "Welscher Gast" by Thomasin of Zerklaere, a 13th century didactic poem composed in Middle High German. This manuscript was written on parchment in the 14th century in Gothic script. It was cut into pieces and between 1467 and 1485 used for a number of new bindings in Heilsbronn Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in Franconia. The fragments were restored from these bindings mostly during the second half of the 19th century. The leaves are partly cut off, they contain holes and some writing is rubbed off or damaged by glue. 

The multispectral images (30 pictures altogether) were taken in order to support the digital scholarly edition "Welscher Gast digital" in reading some heavily damaged areas of the fragments. This edition has been conducted between 2011 and 2019 by Jakub Šimek at the Sonderforschungsbereich (Collaborative Research Cluster) 933 "Materiale Textkulturen" at Heidelberg University and is currently being continued at the Heidelberg University Library. The multispectral imaging itself and the data analysis were undertaken within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Hamburg University. Both institutions were funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). 

Authority data record (Normdatensatz) of the manuscript at Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

DOI link to the presentation of the manuscript at Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

URN link to the presentation of the manuscript at Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

Permanent URL to the presentation of the manuscript at Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

URN link to the presentation of the manuscript at Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg

The research for this project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg. In cooperation with Sonderforschungsbereich 933 'Materiale Textkulturen' at Universität Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg and Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg.