Kassel conversations

The Kassel calls a custom built around the year 810 manuscript from the Regensburg area. The Code offers on 60 parchment leaves beside argumentation aids for priests and other theological explanations Kassel glosses. The manuscript is now kept in the Murhardschen library in Kassel.

Content

The content is divided into five sections. Attention from the research most are the "Kassel glosses ". Commentary in this context is to be understood as Germanization or explanation of individual Latin words or phrases. There are very early and tentative attempts, the heard to implement their native language Althochdeutsch in Written. This language aid might have been intended for Romanesque -speaking people. There are mainly practical advice such as: skir min Fahs ( "scissors hair of my head " ) to find. The commentary ends with a bilingual consideration of the intellectual differences between Bavaria and novels:

Stulti romani sunt Sapienti sunt paiori Modica est Sapienti in romana plus habent stultitia quam sapientia
Stupid are the Italians, clever Bayern. Klein is the wisdom at the Italians, they have more stupidity than cleverness

The Kassel glosses are partly consistent with the so-called Vocabularius Sancti Galli (Codex 913) from St. Gallen.

Execution

The Kassel talks have been written by various clumsy hands. The Carolingian minuscule used to refer to an origin in or near Regensburg. The 60 leaves have a size of about 20x14 cm. The cover consists of simple wooden boards and a modern leather back.

History of Research

The band came in 1632 from Fulda to Kassel. Johann Heinrich Hottinger Elder. mentioned in 1637 in his work Historica ecclestica novi testamenti the "Kassel talks". For the first time scientifically Wilhelm Grimm sat apart with the band in 1846. To make the illegible writing briefly more visible, he used a Galläpfeltinktur that caused permanent damage. In the front cover immortalized himself on February 22, 1858 Altanglist Christian Wilhelm Michael Grein, while he used the book. Today it is located in the exhibition vault of the Kassel University Library.