Carmina Cantabrigiensia
The Carmina Cantabrigiensia are a collection of Latin poems by various authors from the 10th and 11th centuries, which were written in Germany, France and Italy.
The collection, possibly compiled in the Rhine region around 1050, contains love , drinking , dance and nature songs , lamentations for the dead , coronation poems and prize songs , as well as excerpts from epics by Virgil and Statius and an ode by Horace . The poem De Heinrico (Heinrichslied), which is written half in German and half in Latin and is an early testimony to political German poetry, is striking .
The song collection bears its title after the Latin name for Cambridge as the place where the only manuscript is kept today ( Cod. Gg 5.35 of the Cambridge University Library). It was probably copied from a continental template in the monastery of St. Augustine in Canterbury in the 11th century .
A whole series of songs is about the ancient philosopher Pythagoras of Samos and celebrates him as the discoverer of the connection between arithmetic and music . This relationship was also thematized in 1025 in the Micrologus of Guido von Arezzo in the legend of Pythagoras in the forge , which he handed down .
Many pieces are Hofgedichte that clearly on Germany refer ( Price songs on King Conrad II. , Otto I , etc.). Content-related evidence suggests that at least the core of the collection in the environment of Heinrich III. was created.
The edition provided by Karl Strecker in 1926 has been reprinted several times.
literature
- Karl Strecker (Ed.): Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separately in editi 40: Die Cambridger Lieder (Carmina Cantabrigiensia). Hanover 1926 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
- Karl Langosch : Article Carmina Cantabrigiensia. in: Author Lexicon, Vol. 1 (1978), Col. 1186-92.
Web links
- Carmina Cantabrigiensia (short introduction, texts) in the Bibliotheca Augustana
- Publications on the Carmina Cantabrigiensia in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans F. Haefele: The Pythagoras Sequence , page 479 ff., In: German Archives for Research into the Middle Ages , 49th year, Böhlau Verlag, 1993