Hohenems-Munich manuscript A
The Hohenems-Münchener Manuscript A is a collective manuscript and contains one of the three most important copies of the Nibelungenlied .
The manuscript takes its name from the place where it was found in Hohenems and where it was stored in Munich .
It contains the following parts:
- the Nibelungenlied
- the action (A) and
- The Book of Perfection by Pseudo Engelhart von Ebrach , as well
- an addendum by a Swabian author.
It was written around the last quarter of the 13th century, according to the language in the Alpine region. The manuscript was discovered by the Oberamtmann Franz Josef von Wocher at the instigation of Johann Jakob Bodmer on September 9, 1779 in the library of the Hohenems Palace . He sent the volume to Bodmer and reported on it on September 10th: ... I found the whole sizeable store of books lying on top of each other in tattered piles, and after a long rummaging through I finally found the old poem: That Liet to find the Nibelung ...
Jacob Hermann Obereit had already discovered the Nibelung manuscript C here on June 29, 1755 .
The last ruling count was Franz Wilhelm III. von Ems , whose granddaughter Maria Walburga Hereditary Countess Harrach-Lustenau-Hohenems gave the manuscript in 1807 together with the Donaueschingen Nibelung manuscript C to her lawyer Schuster from Prague. Schuster sold the younger manuscript "A" to the royal court library in Munich, today the Bavarian State Library . It has been kept there since then under the signature Cgm 34.
The complicated relationship between the three most important text witnesses has not yet been finally clarified. Karl Lachmann considered this manuscript to be the oldest and most original and therefore gave it the letter A. Today, however, research is more assuming that the St. Gallen manuscript B represents the more original version.
In 2009 all three manuscripts were by UNESCO for the World Soundtrack Awards explained.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eberhard Thiefenthaler : The discovery of the manuscript of the Nibelungenlied in Hohenems. In: Montfort . Volume 31, 1979, p. 304.
- ↑ Eberhard Thiefenthaler: The discovery of the manuscript of the Nibelungenlied in Hohenems. In: Montfort . Volume 31, 1979, p. 300.
- ↑ German UNESCO Commission