The Penitential Psalms in digital perspective
The research project is devoted to complex cross-media combinations of music, texts and images in sixteenth-century illuminated choirbooks produced for the Wittelsbach court in Munich.
Starting point has been MS 2129 of the music collection of the Austrian National Library in Vienna—a lavishly decorated choirbook produced by Richard of Genoa, singer and scribe of the Wittelsbach music chapel, in the aftermath of the wedding of William V and Renata of Lorraine (1568). This spectacular choirbook, hardly known even to Orlando di Lasso scholarship, was scrutinized in 2016 from a multidisciplinary perspective (Autopsie eines Gesamtkunstwerks, conference funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung, open access proceedings published in 2020).
Current research includes the much more famous Penitential Psalms (Bavarian State Library, Mus.ms. A) of which digital copies with high-resolution scans are already available online. However, only an ambitious digital research platform, including a critical edition of the pertinent Declarationes written by the humanist Samuel Quicchelberg, will allow readers to fully realize and experience these bibliophile objects in a comprehensive way.
Publications
Publications
- Tammen, Björn R. (2020) Finalstrategien? Lassos "Laudes Domini" und Mielichs Illustrationen zu den Psalmen 148 und 150. In: Gottdang, Andrea; Schmid, Bernhold (Hrsg.), Andacht – Repräsentation – Gelehrsamkeit. Der Bußpsalmencodex Albrechts V. (Schriftenreihe der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek 8); Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, S. 493-521.
Lectures
Lectures
Tammen, Björn R. (22.01.2024) Die ‚Kunst der Buße‘ – oder: Annotationsstrategien für ein frühneuzeitliches theatrum sapientiae. Vortrag bei: Digitale Annotation im geschichtswissenschaftlichen Kontext: Methoden, Techniken, Standards und Tools (Übung Methodenkurs, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Wien), Wien/AUSTRIA.
Tammen, Björn R. (21.11.2023) Annotatio – Declaratio – Interpretatio. Vortrag bei: Research Lunch 98, Wien/AUSTRIA.
Tammen, Björn R. (16.08.2023) Buß*e – Herausforderungen der digitalen Transformation eines wittelsbachischen Prachtchorbuchs aus dem 16. Jahrhundert. Vortrag bei: Meet the Researchers. Internship-Programm des ACDH-CH für Praktikant*innen, Wien/AUSTRIA.
Tammen, Björn R. (27.07.2023) Unterstreichungen in campo aperto – oder: einer Handbibliothek des Samuel Quicchelberg für den 'Bußpsalmencodex' auf der Spur?. Vortrag bei: 51st Medieval & Renaissance Music Conference (MedRen Munich 2023), München/GERMANY.
Tammen, Björn R. (24.08.2022) Toward a digital research environment of the Penitential Psalms. Vortrag bei: Music Across Borders – 21st Quinquennial IMS Congress (IMS2022) (International Musicological Society), Athens/GREECE.
Funding
Duration
since 06/2020