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The Denig Manuscript
Manuscript Scholarship Forensics Music Educational Resources About
Manuscript Scholarship Forensics Music Education Resources About


SEE AND HEAR THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY…

The Denig Manuscript Project brings an eighteenth-century, Pennsylvania-made
manuscript and watercolors to life through a collaborative multimedia digital
project. High-resolution digital images, updated translations, forensic
analysis, sound recordings, and contextual scholarship provide enhanced access
to this extraordinary document of religious life in early America. Ludwig Denig
(1755-1830) created the ink and watercolor bound volume in 1784, and it remained
in private hands until the 1970s. Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library acquired
the manuscript as a gift in 2020. Recognizing both the importance of the volume
and its fragile physical state, Winterthur received support from the Schwartz
Foundation and The Paper Project at the Getty to study and digitize the book.
Winterthur and a team of scholars worked with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for
History and New Media to build a digital humanities site and provide greater
access to Denig’s work.


WHO WAS DENIG?

Ludwig Denig (1755-1830) was a shoemaker and apothecary living in colonial and
revolutionary Pennsylvania. He drew on the devotional and biblical spirituality
of regional Lutheran and Dutch Reformed churches to create a leather-bound
manuscript that combines a number of theological and artistic traditions. The
volume he created provides a unique document of one man’s religious and cultural
life, illustrated with images informed by the world around him. This manuscript
combines a number of devotional, theological, and artistic traditions, but that
combination created a manuscript and work of art that is unique to early
America.


EXPLORE THE MANUSCRIPT

Discover the detailed manuscript created by Ludwig Denig, featuring watercolor
scenes and devotional texts.


DISCOVER SCHOLARSHIP

Learn more about the historical context of Ludwig Denig's work.


LEARN MORE

Find out more about the project.

The Denig Manuscript, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library and the Roy Rosenzweig
Center for History and New Media (2024). https://denigmanuscript.org