Jena song manuscript

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The Jena song manuscript is the most important collection of Middle High German song poetry , created in the first third of the 14th century in northern central or northern Germany. Today it is kept in the Thuringian University and State Library (ThULB) Jena (signature: Ms. El. F. 101). In German studies, the code and its content are also referred to briefly with the letter J.

description

The representative of conduct characterized by best parchment, unusual large format (56 × 41 cm), carefully prepared two-column text area, unusually large and beautiful writing, Fleuronné initials and - in contemporary song tradition an exception - by melodies in Roman square notation on red Staff lines.

history

Of the original 147 sheets of the manuscript, 133 are still preserved today. The main inventory (except for the Wizlaw addendum and other small additions) was continuously recorded by a scribe in written German . The Ascanian Rudolf I , Duke of Saxony-Wittenberg (1298–1356), was suspected as a possible client . In any case, the manuscript was in Wittenberg when it was given a renaissance binding in the workshop of the bookbinder Wolfgang Schreiber between 1536 and 1541 - no longer complete. It is documented for the first time in three of the catalogs of the Wittenberg Castle Library ( Bibliotheca Electoralis ) begun around 1536 ; earlier traces of their custody history are missing. Together with the rest of the Wittenberg Bibliotheca Electoralis , the song manuscript was moved to its present location in Jena in 1549. The Bibliotheca Electoralis forms the founding inventory of today's ThULB Jena.

content

The manuscript J primarily collects song poetry from the 13th and early 14th centuries, as well as examples of the great pompous form of the corpse . While Minnelieder are almost completely absent - apart from a few from the pen of the (princely?) Poet Wizlaw III. von Rügen in an addendum - the entire thematic variety of sang-verse poetry is reproduced: spiritual praise and praise of the gentleman, spiritual and secular teaching, art reflection and art polemics, criticism of the times, hypocritical and also joking.

The arrangement of the collection follows a different principle than the somewhat older southwest German song manuscripts . While song corpora are compiled there under the name of their poet, in the Jena song manuscript - which is the only one also interested in the melodies - the form and melody of the stanza are the classification criteria. The editor has arranged the texts according to tone authors and tones , and stanzas that are composed in tones adopted by other masters according to the tone, not the text author.

Younger Central and North German authors are preferably included, but the collection goes back to Spervogel . Besides his brother Werner, he is the only singer who dates back to the middle of the 13th century.

Contents overview

  • Anonymous spiritual poem (fragment) - 2r
  • The old gallery - 2r – 7r
  • The Hardegger (within the Stolle corpus) - 3r, 4v, 6v
  • The virtuous scribe - 7r – 7v
  • Brother Wernher - 7v – 16v
  • Kelin - 16v – 20v
  • Zilies von Seine ( Zilies von Sayn ) - 20v – 21v
  • Master Alexander ( The Wild Alexander ) - 21v – 28r
  • Rubin and Rüdeger / Meyster Rudinger - 28r – 29r
  • Spervogel - 29r-30r
  • Hellfire - 30r – 31r
  • Gervelin - 31r – 31v
  • Purgatory - 34r – 35v
  • The Urenheimer - 35v – 36v
  • The Henneberger ( Otto von Botenlauben  ?) - 36v – 38r
  • The Good (Part One) - 38r – 39r

facsimile

In 1901 the Jenaer Liederhandschrift was published in modern music notation by the musicologists of the University of Leipzig , Georg Holz , Franz Saran and Eduard Bernoulli . A facsimile as a black and white collotype in original size was published in Jena in 1896 in an edition of 140 copies ( Die Jenaer Liederhandschrift der Universität Jena , Jena 1896; reduced and reused by Tervooren / Müller, see below). In 2007 the Jena song manuscript was extensively restored in the Thuringian University and State Library Jena (ThULB) and digitalized in high resolution on this occasion.

literature

  • Jens Haustein, Franz Körndle (ed.): The 'Jenaer Liederhandschrift'. Codex - History - Environment . De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-021896-1 .
  • Franzjosef Pensel: Directory of old German and selected more recent German manuscripts in the Jena University Library (=  German texts of the Middle Ages . LXX / 2). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-05-000172-0 , pp. 307-324 .
  • Helmut Tervooren, Ulrich Müller (ed.): The Jenaer Liederhandschrift. In the illustration with an appendix: The Basler and Wolfenbüttler Fragments (=  Litterae . Volume 10 ). Kümmerle, Göppingen 1972, ISBN 3-87452-139-7 .
  • Burghart Wachinger: Jenaer Liederhandschrift . In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd Edition. tape 4 . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1983, ISBN 3-11-008838-X , Sp. 512-516 .
  • Lorenz Welker : Jenaer Liederhandschrift . In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . 2nd Edition. Material part tape 5 . Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 1996, ISBN 3-7618-1106-3 , Sp. 1455-1460 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Holz , Franz Saran , Eduard Bernoulli (ed.): The Jenaer Liederhandschrift . Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1901 ( archive.org [accessed December 2, 2018]).