Booklet

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A booklet (from mhd. Buochelîn, "small didactic poem") is a form of didactic lyric poetry in the German Minnelyric of the Middle Ages . The term was originally used quantitatively for smaller fonts and as a topos of modesty for larger works. Later, its significance expanded qualitatively to include moral writings in the context of literary genres such as Minnebrief and Minnelehre .

The qualitative term is preserved in work titles like Hartmanns von Aue Büchlein (also Klage or Klagebüchlein , actually a Minnerede ) and the so-called Ambraser Büchlein . Both terms are combined in the edification literature of the early 14th century , e.g. B. in the little book of the love of God and in Heinrich Seuse's little book of eternal wisdom (around 1330). The word also found expression in the German death book for the late medieval Artes moriendi , right up to the pestilence book by Doctor Philipp Persius von Lonstorff (1649). Even after that, the name for didactic writings continued to have an effect, as Gustav Theodor Fechner's little book on life after death (1836) shows.

The term was also used for collections of compositions that were put together for music-educational purposes. B. with Johann Sebastian Bach's organ booklet and the music booklet for Anna Magdalena Bach .

Booklet is the diminutive of a book and is also used as a " nickname " for small books, ex. Notebook “I'll take a look at my clever little book”.

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literature

Reinhart Siegert: Enlightenment and popular reading . Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-7657-0821-6