Project description

The Iwein – digital continues the work of the edition of Hartmann's von Aue Der Arme Heinrich and was initiated in September 2018 under the academic leadership of Victor Millet (Santiago de Compostela) and the technical support of the Heidelberg University Library team led by Dr. Veit Probst (until 2023) and Jochen Apel (since 2023). Florian Kragl (Erlangen-Nuremberg) was also initially involved in the conception of the project. The Heidelberg UB subsequently set up the Virtual Library, which is already complete. The project was organised in two phases: 2020-2023 for the parchment manuscripts (ABDdEJ) and the fragments (CeFGHKMNOPQRSTUVWX1X2), 2023-2026 for the paper manuscripts (abcflpruz).

The first phase project was funded by a research grant (PID2019-105258RB-I00, €15.000) from the Spanish research agency Agencia Española de Investigación (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033). The second phase wass funded by a grant (PID2022-137490NB-I00, €27.600) from the same institution. Additionally, the project received a doctoral grant (PRE2020-092208).

Apart from the editors, the following persons have collaborated in the transcriptions: Samanta Dening (Buenos Aires), María Teresa Bermúndez de la Puente Castro, Ana Buelga Vázquez, Saray Díaz Díaz, Marta López García, Irene Martínez López, Raquel Pereira Gil, Vanessa Prada Obes, Roberto Rivas Couce, Paula Rodríguez Rey, Raquel Souto Janeiro, Juan Tosso Delgado, Paula Vila Uruburu (alle Santiago de Compostela). They all volunteered; they were trained for this and supervised.

Their participation (and thus the rapid progress of the transcriptions and revisions) was made easier thanks to the framework for the Oxygen XML Editor that Gustavo Fernández Riva (Heidelberg) developed for us. Without Gustavo's additional tool for the synopsis of the verses we could not have finished the analysis of variants. The technical support by Jakub Šimek to neatly encode changing codicologic and palaeographic phenomena was also crucial. Maria Effinger followed all aspects of the project along all those year with professionalism and personal engagement. But also Leo Maylein as director of the technical development, Anna Voellner and Lukas Unser as the masters of the web presentation, Karin Zimmermann from the manuscript division, both library directors (mentioned above), as well as many other staff members have helped us many timer willingly and professionaly. We would like to express our gratitude to all of them.