Funding organisation: DFG Funding level: Personnel Running time: 2002 – August 2006   Project description:   The University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt owns about 400 occidental manuscripts from the 8th to the 15th century. The collection of medieval German manuscripts of various provenance was only partially known to scholars. Due to the special importance of the faculty of law in (Wittenberg) Halle since the founding of the university, more than a third of the manuscripts are legal manuscripts (Sachsenspiegel), often including an interesting regional history background. Other works included are, for example, recipe and medicine books as well as chronicles. Literary texts are rather scarce in the collection. But, two recently found important manuscripts deserve special attention: First, the manuscript of the “Mörin” of Sachsenheim, which has been considered lost since 1895, and the songbook of Klara Hätzlerin, as well as a hitherto unknown text witness of the “Secreta secretorum” translation of Melchior von Königshofen.   The Handschriftencensus by Schipke/ Heydeck takes into account German texts  only in exceptional cases, so if they happen to be found in predominantly Latin texts. Hildegard Herricht on the other hand only provides a printed summary and incomplete list of titles for the former Stolberg- Wernigerödische Handschriftenabteilung.   Thus, this catalogue aims to close a gap in the modern recording of manuscripts having existed since the publication of the catalogue Manuscripts from Quedlinburg (completed by Jutta Fliege in 1977) and the typewritten index of Medieval Latin Manuscripts of the ULB (prepared by Fliege in 1978/79 on behalf of the Central Institute for Manuscript Studies of the GDR).   The project:   The project’s task is the in-depth indexation and renewed description of 76 medieval German and Dutch manuscripts of the ULB Halle.   Supplementary information and publications:   Brigitte Pfeil: Katalog der deutschen und niederländischen Handschriften des Mittelalters in der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt in Halle (Saale). Halle (Saale) 2007. 2 Bände; 545 S. (Schriften zum Bibliotheks- und Büchereiwesen in Sachsen-Anhalt Bd. 89/1 und 89/2).