Table 1: Statistics for Houses of the Dominican Order in 13th/14th Century.
| Europe | Germany | Saxony [after 1303] | |||||||
| Date | total | female | % | total | female | % | total | female | % |
| 1277 | 404 | 58 | (14%) | 93 | 40 | (43%) | -- | -- | -- |
| 1287 | ? | ? | ? | ? | 70 | ? | -- | -- | -- |
| 1303 | 582 | 149 | (25%) | 113 | 65 | (57%) | 56 | 9 | (16%) |
| 1358 | 648 | 165 | (25%) | 117 | 65 | (55%) | 59 | 9 | (15%) |
Table 2: Devotional and Instructional Texts from Female Dominican Monasteries.
An asterisk indicates the manuscript is associated with one of the six core houses. This sample comes from the same collections as the survey for Table 4.
| Title | Author [if known] | Copies | Date |
| * Sermons | Johannes Tauler | 1 | c.1360 |
| * Sermons and mystical writings | 1 | 14th c. | |
| Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit | Henry Suso | 2 | both 14th c. |
| Von der Gnaden überlast | Christina Ebner | 1 | before 1346 |
| Prayerbook | Hartwig von dem Hage | 1 | 14th c. |
| *Chronik | Anna von Munzingen | 1 | 1433 translation of 1318 text |
| *Vitae sororum | Catherine of Unterlinden | 1 | 15th c. copy of 14th c. text |
Table 3: Liturgical Manuscripts from Unterlinden, St. Katharinenthal, Adelhausen, Maria Magdalena, St. Agnes, and St. Katharina.
It was common practice to bind together liturgical books that were needed for the same office or mass. Hence, some Psalters, graduals, and processionals survive today as separate manuscripts, whereas other examples are bound with hymnals, antiphonals, and books of rites, respectively.
| Manuscript type | early 13th c. | c.1250 | late 13th c. | c.1300 | early 14th c | c.1350 | late 14th c | TOTAL |
| Psalter-Hymnals | -- | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | -- | 11 |
| Gradual-Antiphonals | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 16 |
| Diurnals | -- | -- | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Processional-Rites | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Martyrologies | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | 2 |
| Collectars | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 |
| Sanctorals | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 1 |
| Total | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 43 |
Table 4: Liturgical Manuscripts from Southern German Female Dominican Monasteries.
These numbers represent a survey of the collections held in the Augustinermuseum, the Erzbischöfliches Archiv, the Stadtarchiv, and the Universitätsbibliothek, all in Freiburg, Germany, as well as the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe, Germany, the Germanische Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, Germany, the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart, Germany, the Bibliothèque de la Ville in Colmar, France, the Zentralbibliothek and the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, Switzerland, and the Vatican Library in Rome.
| Manuscript type | early 13th c. | c.1250 | late 13th c. | c.1300 | early 14th c | c.1350 | late 14th c | TOTAL |
| Psalters | 2 | -- | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | -- | 16 |
| Psalter-Hymnals | -- | 2 | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | 4 |
| Graduals | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 3 | 4 | -- | 8 |
| Gradual-Antiphonals | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 |
| Antiphonals | -- | -- | -- | -- | 5 | -- | 2 | 7 |
| Diurnals | -- | -- | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Processionals | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Processional-Rites | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 13 |
| Rites | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 1 |
| Martyrologies | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | 2 |
| Collectars | -- | -- | 3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 |
| Breviaries | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 2 |
| Books of Hours | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 2 | -- | 3 |
| Evangelaries | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 |
| Propers for Offices | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Office Lectionaries | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Sanctorals | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 1 |
| Other 1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Total | 2 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 25 | 15 | 12 | 76 |
Notes
Note 1: This manuscript is a compilation of Dominican Rites, capitula (Scripture read after the Psalms), the Office for Chapter, and versiculi. back