An exemplary study on the textual transmission of Heinrich Seuses Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit

海因里希·塞斯(约1295/96-1366)是14世纪德国神秘作家传播最广的作品之一(现存德国和荷兰领域的600份手稿)。到目前为止，它唯一的科学版本是卡尔·比尔迈尔在1907年出版的版本。Bihlmeyers版现在必须被认为是过时的。如今已知的BDEW手稿是Bihlmeyer时代的三倍，看看其中那些可以在线查阅的手稿，许多手稿包含的文本版本与Bihlmeyer印刷的版本不同。因此，BDEW的一个新的关键版本是必要的：一个版本，它呈现了该作品在其传播历史过程中经历的所有变化和编撰改编。只有这样的版本才能说明BDEW的受欢迎程度(正如它的手稿传输所记录的那样)以及它的接受历史。该项目的目的是在专门研究该工作的两个示范章节的基础上，为新的BDEW关键版本奠定基础。为此，第7章(Wie Minnekliche Get Ist)和第13章(Von UnMessiger Edli Zitlices Lidennes)，因为它们包含在134个已知的高德语手稿中，将与Bihlmeyers版(斯特拉斯堡，BNU，MS 2929)的中央手稿进行比较。在进一步的步骤中，将从手稿的分流和分组方面分析这种比较，并将说明不同的文本阶段、版本和节录。之后，我们将研究BDEW的高级德语传统与低级德语和荷兰传统的关系。为此，各自的文字证词(版本的低德语版本的诺里斯，六个更低的德语和六个荷兰手稿)也将与Bihlmeyers中央手稿进行比较，以确定它们在BDEW的高德语传播史上的位置。这部作品的五个最重要的高德语版画将以类似的方式处理。该项目的成果将是在第7章和第13章的基础上印制一份印刷文件，并对BDEW的文本传递进行分析，这两章也将在这方面进行编辑。对BDEW第7章和第13章的文本和传播史的研究是该项目的核心，它将可能对新版作品的必要性和可能性做出初步决定：其不同版本的数量和具体特点不仅将决定新版适合哪种编辑方法的问题，而且还将影响出版形式的选择(数字或印刷形式，或两者的混合)。

Heinrich Seuses (ca 1295/96-1366) Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit (BdeW) is one of the most widely transmitted works of the German mystic writers of the 14th century (there are 600 manuscripts from the German and the Netherlandisch realm extant). Its only scientific edition until now is the one published by Karl Bihlmeyer in 1907. Bihlmeyers edition has now to be considered as outdated. Nowadays there are known thrice as many manuscripts of the BdeW than in Bihlmeyers times, and as a look at those of them which can be consulted online shows, many contain a version of the text that differs from the version printed by Bihlmeyer. A new critical edition of the BdeW is therefore necessary: an edition that renders all the changes and redactional adaptations the work underwent during the course of its transmission history. Only such an edition can illuminate the popularity of the BdeW (as it is documented by its manuscript transmission) as well as the history of its reception. It is the aim of the project to lay the grounds for a new critical edition of the BdeW on the basis of a study dedicated to two exemplary chapters of the work. For that the chapters 7 (Wie minnekliche got ist) and 13 (Von unmessiger edli zitliches lidennes), as they are contained in 134 known High German manuscripts, will be compared to the central manuscript in Bihlmeyers edition (Strasbourg, BNU, ms 2929). In a further step this comparison will be analysed with regard to the filiation and groupings of the manuscripts, and the different textual stages, versions and redactions will be illuminated. Afterwards the relationship of the High German tradition of the BdeW to the Low German and Netherlandish tradition will be studied. For this the respective textual testimonies (the edition of the Low German versions by Norris, six further Low German and six Netherlandish manuscripts) will also be compared to Bihlmeyers central manuscript in order to determine their place within the High German transmission history of the BdeW. The five most important High German prints of the work will be treated in a similar manner. The result of the project will be a printed documentation and analysis of the textual transmission of the BdeW as it appears on the basis of chapters 7 and 13, which will also be edited in this connection. The research in the textual and transmission history of chapters 7 and 13 of the BdeW, that lies at the heart of this project, will make possible preliminary decisions about the necessities and possibilities of a new edition of the work: the number and the specific character of its diverse versions will not only be decisive in answering the question which editorial method is apt for the new edition, but also will influence the choice of the publication form (a digital or a printed one, or an amalgam of both of them).