Voices on the Edge: Minuscule Texts in Early Medieval Latin Culture

Duration
01.12.2021–30.11.2027

The project investigates early medieval legal, musical, and medical textual additions to Latin manuscripts that were produced before c. 900.

An old Latin manuscript produced before c. 900

Prayer for ordeal by hot iron. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 67.5 Aug. 4°, fol. 14v (Reproduced from HAB Manuscript database)

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About the project

Specifically, the project "Voices on the Edge: Minuscule Texts in Early Medieval Latin Culture"

  1. analyzes what role legal additions played in the transmission of pragmatic knowledge related to legal practices,
  2. examines how normative texts of Christian liturgy and actual performative practices intersected in textual additions with musical notations, and
  3. scrutinizes how medical additions relate to both the textual culture of surviving medical miscellanies and concurrent medical practices.

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Publications

  • Baitieri, Michele & Minniti, Giulio (2025). Early Beneventan Musical Additions in the Margins. Bibliografia dei manoscritti in scrittura beneventana. ISSN 1124-9773. 33, p. 9–22. doi: 10.52056/9791257011826/02. Full text in Research Archive

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Funding

Funded by The Research Council of Norway

Project number: 324308

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