Katharina Tucher, a widow from Nuremberg, wrote a spiritual 'diary' with 94 entries dating from 1418-21. In these "Revelations" she tells of her mystical visions and her many conversations with Christ, Mary and other holy persons. Because of its very private nature the work is completely unique in German mystical literature. The edition is based on Katharina's autograph.

The "Vitaspatrum" are a collection of potted biographies, learned discourses and sayings of the first Oriental hermits and monks and are among the most important writings of the monastic movement. The "Alemannische Vitaspatrum" edited here is a prose translation in Southern Alemannic probably stemming from 14th century German mystics. It is in two parts, each with a different translator, one being a set of biographies, the other a collection of exempla. This historical edition provides an edition of the vulgate text of both parts, extracts from the most important extant revised version and all later additions to the exempla section.