15th century Medieval manuscript

Presented in this weeks Archives Showcase video is one of the finest artefacts in the Diocese of Ontario’s Archives - a 600-page compendium Medieval manuscript, written in the mid-fifteenth century by German Benedictine monks. It is in completely untouched condition, bound in oak and leather, with every page written by hand by multiple monastic authors using hand-made iron gall ink and gouache.
Through this manuscript, we explore the lives and works of multiple significant Medieval theologians who played pivotal roles in the development of Christianity and learn about Medieval Germany and its theological and political development before and during the Protestant Reformation. We are also granted a remarkable perspective on monastic life and the orders of ecclesiastical polity within these sacred institutions, gazing not only from the vantage of a reader, but from that of a Benedictine monk as well.