Codex Palatinus germanicus 5

Cod. Pal. germ. 5, sheet 1r: Irmhart Öser , epistle from Rabbi Samuel to Rabbi Isaak (beginning)

The Codex Palatinus germanicus 5 is a late medieval manuscript from the former Bibliotheca Palatina in Heidelberg . The Codex belongs to the Codices Palatini germanici , the German-language manuscripts of the Palatina, which have been kept in the Heidelberg University Library since 1816 ; The signature of the Heidelberg University Library and the common scientific name is Cod. Pal. germ. 5 (short form: Cpg 5 ).

In addition to the Gmünder Chronik , the collective manuscript contains the German version of Heinrich von Mügeln's Hungarian Chronicle , the anti-Jewish polemic Epistle from Rabbi Samuel to Rabbi Isaak von Irmhart Öser, as well as shorter medical texts.

The manuscript originated in the first quarter of the 15th century, probably in Bavaria.

description

Cod. Pal. germ. 5, sheet 13v: Bloodletting rules, bloodletting men

Cod. Pal. germ. 5, sheet 18r: Heinrich von Mügeln , Hungarian Chronicle (German, beginning)

Cod. Pal. germ. 5, sheet 54r: Gmünder Chronik (beginning)

The Codex is a paper manuscript with 79 leaves, of which leaves 1r to 68v are described. During the restoration in 1977, all sheets were hung on folds and stapled again.

Sheet 1 is torn off at the bottom, about half of the text has been lost. Because the sheets were bound incorrectly, the order of the sheets in the manuscript is incorrect. The correct sequence would be sheets 1–22, 35–36, 25–34, 23–24, 37–68. The few complaints (sheets 23v, 35v, 47v, 59v) enable the original layering to be reconstructed . The foliation of the 17th century counts sheets 1 to 68; the blank pages are provided with modern counting.

The sheet size of the codex is 30 × 20.2 cm, a writing space of 21.5 × 14.5 cm is described with 30 to 35 lines per page, usually written in two columns, sheet 13v with the picture of a bloodletting man is written in one column. The Bastarda , written by one hand, is the consistent written form; the pen tests on sheet 68v and notes in the margin of the Hungarian Chronicle are from a second hand. Chapter beginnings are marked with red Lombards over two to three lines.

The manuscript is preserved in a Roman parchment binding from the 17th century, which was bound again during the restoration in 1977.

origin

Due to the watermarks, the manuscript can be dated to the first quarter of the 15th century; the Bavarian writing language of the only scribe suggests Bavaria as the place of origin.

Otherwise nothing is known about the origin of the manuscript, including how it got to Heidelberg. The name of the illustrator Hans Grünauer, handed down in the manuscript (sheet 13v: hans grunawer picktoravit ) is also not known.

Like the other manuscripts of the Electoral Palatinate Libraries, the Codex came into the possession of the Vatican Library in Rome after the conquest of the Electoral Palatinate in the Thirty Years War in 1622 and was only brought to Heidelberg in 1816 with the other German-language holdings of the Palatina as part of the regulations during the Congress of Vienna returned.

Content

The first part of the manuscript (sheets 1r – 13r) is the epistle from Rabbi Samuel to Rabbi Isaak by Irmhart Öser . The text is a bogus letter from a rabbi who argues for conversion to Christianity, in essence a polemical justification for Christianity. The anti-Jewish script has been widely handed down with more than 50 manuscripts; Also in the text corpus of the Bibliotheca Palatina is found in the collective manuscript Cod. Pal. germ. 60 another copy. The Latin model of Öser's transmission, the Epistula rabbi Samuel de Fez de adventu Messiae, missa rabbi Isaac of Alphonsus Bonihominis , is one of the so-called adversus-judaeos texts, Christian pamphlets directed against Jews .

This is followed by bloodletting rules (sheets 13v – 16v), illustrated with a “bloodletting man” with identification of the Lass points, followed by a monthly regimen , a brief diet .

The final longer parts of the Codex are two chronical texts.

The German-language Hungarian Chronicle of Heinrich von Mügeln (sheets 18r – 53v) is, unlike the Latin work of the same name by the same author, a prose script. The chronicle gives a history of Hungary from the flood to 1333 in 73 chapters. The Heidelberg version is one of nine surviving manuscripts of the work. In the margin outside the writing space there are notes by a user; On the incorrectly bound sheets (see above, section Description ) there are instructions in pencil about the correct order.

Pages 54r – 68r contain the long version of the Gmünder Chronik , an imperial chronicle, introduced with a brief overview of world history since creation. The Heidelberg manuscript is listed until 1377 and, according to Peter Johanek, possibly offers the original version of the Gmünder Chronik .

On the last described sheet 68v there are feather samples , u. a. a few verses by the Meistersinger Muskatblüt and the medieval poet rainbow .

See also

• List of Codices Palatini germanici 1–99

literature

• Karin Zimmermann : Cod. Pal. germ. 5. Irmhart Öser, Aderlaßbuch, Heinrich von Mügeln, Gmünder Chronik. In: Karin Zimmermann (arrangement), with the participation of Sonja Glauch, Matthias Miller, Armin Schlechter: The Codices Palatini germanici in the Heidelberg University Library (Cod. Pal. Germ. 1–181). Catalogs of Heidelberg University Library, Volume 6. Reichert Verlag , Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 978-3-89500-152-9 , pp. 10-11 ( digitized version ).

Older catalogs:

• Karl Bartsch : Pal. germ. 5th letter of the Jew Samuel. Bloodletting booklet. Heinrichs von Mügeln Ungrian Chronicle. Chronicle of the Holy Roman Emperors. In: Karl Bartsch: The old German manuscripts of the university library in Heidelberg. Catalog of the manuscripts of the University Library in Heidelberg, Volume 1. Verlag von Gustav Koester, Heidelberg 1887, No. 4, pp. 5-6 ( digitized version ).
• Hans Wegener : Aderlaßbüchlein (bound together with writings of different content). pal. germ. 5. In: Hans Wegener: Descriptive directory of the German picture manuscripts of the late Middle Ages in the Heidelberg University Library. Verlagbuchhandlung J. J. Weber, Leipzig 1927, p. 109 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Cod. Pal. germ. 5  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cod. Pal. germ. 5 , digitized version of the manuscript, website of the Heidelberg University Library .
• Cpg 5 in the manuscript census .

Remarks

1. ↑ Unless otherwise noted, the information in this section follows the description by Karin Zimmermann: Cod. Pal. germ. 5 . In: The Codices Palatini germanici in the Heidelberg University Library (Cod. Pal. Germ. 1–181) . Wiesbaden 2003, p. 10 ( digitized version ; accessed February 3, 2020).
2. ↑ s. Digitized by the Heidelberg University Library, modern rear mirror, glued-in note February 1977; accessed February 4, 2020.
3. ↑ s. Digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library; accessed February 4, 2020.
4. ↑ s. Digitized by the Heidelberg University Library, modern rear mirror, glued-in note February 1977; accessed February 4, 2020.
5. ↑ Unless otherwise noted, the information in this section follows the description by Karin Zimmermann: Cod. Pal. germ. 5 . In: The Codices Palatini germanici in the Heidelberg University Library (Cod. Pal. Germ. 1–181) . Wiesbaden 2003, pp. 10–11 ( digitized version ; accessed February 3, 2020).
6. ^ UB Heidelberg : The Bibliotheca Palatina - Fates of a world-famous library ; accessed January 18, 2020.
7. ↑ Unless otherwise noted, the information in this section follows the description by Karin Zimmermann: Cod. Pal. germ. 5 . In: The Codices Palatini germanici in the Heidelberg University Library (Cod. Pal. Germ. 1–181) . Wiesbaden 2003, pp. 10–11 ( digitized version ; accessed February 3, 2020).
8. ↑ Translation of a translation of a translation… , website UB-Heidelberg; accessed February 5, 2020.
9. ↑ cf. Karl Heinz Keller: Öser, Irmhart . In: The German literature of the Middle Ages, author's lexicon , Volume 7. De Gruyter Publishing House , Berlin / New York 1989/2010 (VL ² ), Sp. 84–89.
10. ↑ cf. Eva Schütz: Alfonsus Bonihominis . In: The German literature of the Middle Ages, author's lexicon , Volume 1. De Gruyter Publishing House , Berlin / New York 1978/2010 (VL ² ), Sp. 236–237.
11. ↑ Naming as with Karin Zimmermann: Cod. Pal. germ. 5 . In: The Codices Palatini germanici in the Heidelberg University Library (Cod. Pal. Germ. 1–181) . Wiesbaden 2003, pp. 10–11 ( digitized version ; accessed February 3, 2020).
12. ↑ cf. Karl Stackmann : Heinrich von Mügeln . In: Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters, author's lexicon , volume 3. De Gruyter publishing house , Berlin / New York 1981/2010 (VL ² ), columns 815–827, especially columns 818–819.
13. ↑ Example for both: Sheet 23r (digitized version) ; accessed February 6, 2020.
14. ↑ cf. Peter Johanek: Gmünder Chronik . In: The German literature of the Middle Ages, author's lexicon , volume 3. Verlag De Gruyter , Berlin / New York 1981/2010 (VL ² ), columns 67–70, especially column 69.
15. ↑ cf. Klaus Graf : Exemplary Stories . Thomas Lirer's "Swabian Chronicle" and the "Gmünder Kaiserchronik". Research on the history of older German literature, Volume 7, Fink, Munich 1987 (also dissertation, University of Tübingen 1986, ISBN 3-7705-2459-4 , especially on this manuscript p. 185f. ( Online ; accessed February 6, 2020).
16. ↑ cf. Eva Kiepe-Willms: Nutmeg . In: Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters, author's lexicon , volume 6. De Gruyter publishing house , Berlin / New York 1987/2010 (VL ² ), columns 816–821.
17. ↑ cf. Frieder Schanze: Rainbow . In: The German literature of the Middle Ages, author's lexicon , Volume 7. De Gruyter Publishing House , Berlin / New York 1989/2010 (VL ² ), Sp. 1077-1087.