Königsteiner songbook

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The Königsteiner songbook is a self-contained part of a paper manuscript with small seals, which mainly consist of minstrels . The manuscript contains 169 songs, most of which have survived without a melody and nothing is known about their authors.

History of the Königsteiner songbook

The exact year of origin of the Königstein songbook is unknown. There are, however, some references to the time: The watermarks can be dated to the years 1470 to 1473, and under the texts No. 6 and No. 141 the dates 1464 and 1469, respectively. As a third reference, names appear in texts: So the name Heinrich von Württemberg can be found , for example . His sister Margarete married Philipp von Eppstein-Königstein in 1469, who died in 1471.

Due to the predominantly Rhine-Franconian dialect, it is assumed that the Königsteiner songbook was written in Hesse.

Nothing is known about the client and previous owner of the manuscript; statements can only be made for the beginning of the 19th century: Clemens Brentano acquired the song manuscript in 1804, and his wife Sophie Mereau published the first songs from it a year later . In 1809 he left the manuscript with the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm , whom they retained when Brentano claimed the manuscript back in 1815. Between 1827 and 1847 the Königsteiner songbook can be traced back to Karl Hartwig Gregor von Meusebach . In 1850 it finally came into the possession of the Berlin State Library (shelf mark: mgq 719 pp. 103-185).

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