Codex Palatinus germanicus 732
The Codex Palatinus germanicus 732 is an autograph by Martin Luther . The manuscript contains Luther's German translation of the Book of Wisdom and can be dated to 1529. It is under the signature Cod. Pal. germ 732 or Cpg 732 in the Heidelberg University Library .
Text and dating
The translation of the apocryphal book testifies to Luther's struggle for the formulations in the translation of the Old Testament into German . Luther himself made numerous corrections, such as deletions and rearrangements. In part, he executed these in red ink, which is now very faded and difficult to read. While Luther translated the New Testament in eleven weeks in 1521, the five books of Moses did not appear as a partial edition until 1523. He laid down his great linguistic difficulties in translation in 1530 in the letter on interpreting .
The characters of a typesetter incised with a stylus date the manuscript to the first half of 1529. The characters relate to breaks, arc signatures, insertion marks and the fonts to be used . It is to be determined as a direct copy of the print by Hans Lufft in Wittenberg , which took place this year. However, the traditional manuscript breaks off after the end of the second verse of the last (19th) chapter.
origin
The manuscript probably came through Johannes Aurifaber , Luther's last family member, to Ulrich Fugger from Heidelberg . An intermediate owner could also have been the Melanchthon student Friedrich Staphylus . Fugger's catalog listed the script as Vonn der Weißheitt scriptum Lutheri . In 1584 it came to the Bibliotheca Palatina along with other works by Luther . There was on sheet 2 r the library title of Weishait teutsch foliret Dz book entered and later Manus Lutheri added. This sheet also shows the signature of the Fugger library p. 70 b. F. N o 65. and the rubella number 65. The Capsan number C. 95 and the shelfmarks of the Vatican Library 201 on the same page and 732 p. On sheet 1r testify to the transport across the Alps in the Thirty Years War . After almost 200 years, the German-language manuscripts were returned to Heidelberg in 1816.
description
The manuscript has 32 sheets with the dimensions 20.5 cm × 14.5 centimeters. Writing material is paper, it has two different watermarks . Luther is the only scribe, he writes in a German cursive from the 16th century on a writing area of about 16–18 cm × 10 cm, which comprises 24 to 28 lines. The writing space was delimited by creases on the left and right. Luther's writing language is " East Central German with orientation to Upper German ".
The codex was bound in parchment in Rome in the 17th century , the binding has simple, blind iron lines. The back and signature shield come from the Heidelberg University Library (19th and 20th century).
Further autographs in the Heidelberg University Library
- Martin Luther: Rejoice now, dear Christians, g'mein. Song leaflet 1524 (Unesco document heritage).
- Cod. Pal. germ. 40
- Cod. Pal. germ. 423
- Cod. Pal. germ. 731
literature
- Udo Wennemuth: C 16, autograph Martin Luther. (With illustration) In: Armin Schlechter (Hrsg.): Precious items collected history. Heidelberg and the Palatinate in certificates from the university library. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0862-6 (= publications of the Heidelberg University Library , Volume 1). P. 193.
Web links
- Karin Zimmermann : Cod. Pal. germ. 732. Martin Luther's translation of the book of wisdom. (Digitized version of Heidelberg University Library, PDF, 2014)
- Martin Luther's writings in the Heidelberg University Library.
- Without entry in the manuscript census! (As of January 2018)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Among other things, "two variants of the letter P with a single-contour rod with a clover leaf" (K. Zimmermann).
- ↑ Scientific description of the manuscript by Karin Zimmermann , PDF