Codex Vindobonensis 2696
The Codex 2696 of the Austrian National Library in Vienna is a manuscript collection of Middle High German lyrics, which was written around the 1300th 158 parchment leaves have been preserved, written on in two columns, mostly on 38 lines. The format reaches 24.5 cm × 17 cm. The book is decorated with nine lombards , initials drawn in red ink, which comprise eight to twelve lines and are not from a professional book artist. The written language is southern Bavarian-Austrian, the place of origin cannot be precisely determined: "Danube Austria" leaves the allocation open.
It is the only tradition for the German version of Alber von Windberg's Visio Tnugdali as well as for the writings of Heinrich von Melk , the Anegenge and The Warning . For Das Jüdel and the Oberdeutscher Servatius , the Codex contains the most complete records; there are more textual witnesses for Konrad von Fußesbrunnen and Konrad von Heimesfurt .
literature
- Andreas Fingernagel - Martin Roland , Middle European Schools I (approx. 1250-1350) , text volume, table and register volume (Austrian Academy of Sciences, phil.-hist. Class, memoranda 245; publications of the Commission for Writing and Bookings of the Middle Ages I , 10), Vienna 1997, pp. 112–113 in the text volume; Figs. 154 and 155 in the table volume ISBN 3-7001-2570-4
Remarks
- ↑ Since the end of the 18th century in the court library in Vienna.
- ↑ Collective Codex of German Epics : Short catalog from Martin Roland in Central European Schools I, Cat. 44 (K)