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{{RfD|Unreasonably large scope: listing all nuns would be a longer list than we could reasonably maintain. [[:Category:Nuns]] is a better option. In addition, for some reason this list doesn't include any of the nuns we have in the category.}}
== Roman Catholic nuns ==

=== Nuns who copied manuscripts ===

*[[Kunigunde Niklasin]] (died in 1457), ''scriptrix'' ([[copy]]ist) from St. Catherine's [[convent]] in Nuremberg.  She copied thirty-one [[manuscript]]s, including a whole [[Bible]], and started a catalogue of the convent library.<ref> name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ybP8CTC6Yi0C&pg=PA284&lpg=PA284&dq=Altenhohenau+convent&source=bl&ots=p2NnUb8oc4&sig=nOoi882wIVA12dBGR1syKtGT--A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVmO3XzOTNAhUKLY8KHUQgCRAQ6AEIKjAD#v=onepage&q=Altenhohenau%20convent&f=false|title=Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence|first1=Lesley|last1=Smith|first2=Jane H. M.|last2=Taylor|date=1 January 1997|publisher=University of Toronto Press|accessdate=14 July 2016|via=Google Books}}</ref> 
*[[Margareta Karthäuserin]] [[copy]]ist) and one of the ten nuns from Schönensteinbach who took the Dominican reform movement to St. Catherine's [[convent]] in Nuremberg. She copied at least fourteen books for the [[Divine Office]].<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=ybP8CTC6Yi0C&pg=PA284&lpg=PA284&dq=Altenhohenau+convent&source=bl&ots=p2NnUb8oc4&sig=nOoi882wIVA12dBGR1syKtGT--A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVmO3XzOTNAhUKLY8KHUQgCRAQ6AEIKjAD#v=onepage&q=Altenhohenau%20convent&f=false</ref>

=== German nuns ===

*[[Clara Keyperin]], from St. Catherine's [[convent]] in Nuremberg. Donated 1397 book to convent library. <ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=ybP8CTC6Yi0C&pg=PA284&lpg=PA284&dq=Altenhohenau+convent&source=bl&ots=p2NnUb8oc4&sig=nOoi882wIVA12dBGR1syKtGT--A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVmO3XzOTNAhUKLY8KHUQgCRAQ6AEIKjAD#v=onepage&q=Altenhohenau%20convent&f=false</ref name="auto"/>

=== German nuns ===

*[[Clara Keyperin]], from St. Catherine's [[convent]] in Nuremberg. Donated 1397 book to convent library. <ref name="auto"/>
*[[Elsbeth Stagl]] 14th century nun.  She wrote a [[chronicle]] of the Töss convent, with the lives of [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] sisters and their religious and [[Mysticism|mystical]] experiences. This is the only manuscript in the Nuremberg collection of chronicles that is [[Illuminated manuscript|illuminated]]. It has a drawing of Stagl at her desk. <ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=ybP8CTC6Yi0C&pg=PA284&lpg=PA284&dq=Altenhohenau+convent&source=bl&ots=p2NnUb8oc4&sig=nOoi882wIVA12dBGR1syKtGT--A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVmO3XzOTNAhUKLY8KHUQgCRAQ6AEIKjAD#v=onepage&q=Altenhohenau%20convent&f=false</ref name="auto"/> Stagl's [[pastor]]al guide was the well-known 14th century friar, mystic, and writer, [[Henry Suso]] (''Heinrich Seuse'' in German). <ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OVf8fnz7KUMC&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=Elsbeth+Stagl&source=bl&ots=7IcbDLCfyc&sig=zd-dsgW8RumM8DyUaUW5pK4y4Nw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8q-3V9-TNAhXM1CYKHQ27DvgQ6AEILTAD#v=onepage&q=Elsbeth%20Stagl&f=false|title=Medieval Women in Their Communities|first=Diane|last=Watt|date=1 January 1997|publisher=University of Toronto Press|accessdate=14 July 2016|via=Google Books}}</ref>

== References == 

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