Die Hamburger Beginen bei St. Jacobi im Kontext ihrer Handschriften und Kultur, ed. Barbara Müller and Monika E. Müller. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 21. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022, 374 pp., 16 pages of color plates.

The importance of the collection of fifteenth-century manuscripts from the beguine convent near St. Jacobi Church in Hamburg, identified as signature group Cod. conv. and housed in the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky, was recognized at the end of the nineteenth century. With this volume its significance is investigated and substantiated from a variety of perspectives. The conventuals of the Protestant