The Bible of the Embroider
Hans Plock (1490-1570)
Methods of Exploration
Workshop 2021
Possession and Use of Books
Within the context of the research project Digitalization of the Plock Bible, the Trier Center for Digital Humanities and the Department II / German Studies / Medieval Philology of the University of Trier as well as the Research Library for Reformation History (RFB) organized an online workshop with the topic of possession and use of books in the Early Modern Period. The workshop is connected to the conference in the City Museum of Berlin in 2019, which was dedicated to Hans Plock (ca. 1490-1570), a silk embroiderer originally from Mainz who lived in Halle (Saale) for many years, and his book possessions.
The online workshop broadened the perspective by taking a more systematic and comparative look at bourgeois book ownership and use from the 15th to the 17th century.
Particular attention was turned to the traces of use: Marginal notes, signs and drawings, added pictures and coats of arms, annotations and underlinings are considered forms of acquisition of books and their contents, as well as exchanges in which owners enter into a dialog both with authors and with the books as objects.
Both single persons and certain collections were presented and discussed.
The talks of the conference will be published in the Yearbook of the Research Library for Reformation History (RFB).
The initial call for papers will be found here.
The program of the workshop can be found here.
Organizers:
Research Library for Reformation History (Wittenberg): Dr. Matthias Meinhardt, E-Mail: meinhardt@rfb-wittenberg.de
University of Trier: Prof. Dr. Claudine Moulin (German Studies – Medieval Philology and Trier Center for Digital Humanities), E-Mail: moulin@uni-trier.de
Presentations
Berndt Hamm: Der Ulmer Pfarrer Dr. Ulrich Krafft (gest. 1516) als Büchermensch und Bibliotheksgründer
Maria Hermes-Wladarsch: Melchior Goldast von Haiminsfeld – ein bibliophiler Büchersammler und seine Sammlung
Gotthard Kemmether: Die Büchersammlung Andreas Eberts (1584–1648) – Lehrer der Ratsschule in Frankfurt (Oder)
Isolde Kalter: Der dichtende Kanzleisekretär: Ein Sammelband des Juristen und Poeta laureatus Stephan Cornarius in der Landesbibliothek Coburg
Luise Czajkowski: Hillige moder godes soete vn(de) schone bidde vor uns. Mittelniederdeutsche Stundenbücher als Zeugnis kultureller Identität im 15. Jahrhundert
Claudine Moulin: Die Reformation in privatem Gebetbuchformat – Toronto, Fisher Rare Book Library Ms. 01000
Ulrich Bubenheimer: Die Bibliothek des Wittenberger Humanisten und Medizinprofessors Heinrich Stackmann (gest. 1532) und seine Bucheinzeichnungen
Matthias Meinhardt: Bibeln in bürgerlicher Hand – Hans Plocks Sensenschmidt-Bibel und Bartholomäus Rühels Luther-Bibel
Andrea Thiele: Ratsmeister Caspar Querhammer – Buchbesitz und literarische Tätigkeit eines altgläubigen „leyen vnd Burger“ im Halle der Reformationszeit
Patrick Nehr-Baseler: Der Schenkende als dritte Instanz – vorbereiteter Buchbesitz am Beispiel einer eschatologischen Inkunabel von 1473
Katharina Plate: Spuren des Gebrauchs und ihre Deutung. Kunsttechnologische Ansätze zur Erschließung der Bibel des Hans Plock
Jessica Ammer: Klassiker für das Bürgertum? Besitz und Gebrauch von Übersetzungen antiker Werke seit dem Mittelalter