Transversale Lektüren. Die Bibliothek des Frühhumanisten Sigmund Gossembrot

Stolz, Michael (2020). Transversale Lektüren. Die Bibliothek des Frühhumanisten Sigmund Gossembrot. In: Speer, Andreas; Reuke, Lars (eds.) Die Bibliothek – The Library – La Bibliothèque. Denkräume und Wissensordnungen. Miscellanea Mediaevalia: Vol. 41 (pp. 484-508). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter

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Sigmund Gossembrot (1417–1493), a representative of early German humanism, has left a remarkable collection of books that so far has only partially been explored. After completing a busy career as a civil servant in Augsburg, Gossembrot moved to Strasbourg where he joined the convent of the Knights Hospitaller zum Grünen Wörth (the ‘Green Isle’) in order to study his books. Today the surviving volumes are spread in libraries all over Europe (with a certain concentration on the Bavarian State Library in Munich). Gossembrot left nu-merous annotations on the pages that attest his manifold literary interests and his reading habits, embedded in the social environment of both imperial towns and be-yond. The abundant glosses, including many cross-references to other works, also allow the reconstruction of the content of currently lost manuscripts. This article dis-cusses methods of documenting and examining Gossembrot’s library, including a digital database currently under construction on: www.gossembrot.unibe.ch.

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