House book of Michael de Leone

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The house book of Michael de Leone , also called Würzburg song manuscript , is a German-Latin composite manuscript that originated in the second half of the 14th century in Würzburg and was published by the Würzburg protonotary Michael Jude , called Michael de Leone (around 1300-1355) has been. In Germanic Medieval Studies it is designated with the Sigle E.

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The so-called Würzburger Liederhandschrift is the second volume of Michael de Leone's house book . Michael de Leone, born around 1300 in Würzburg (originally called Michael Jude or Michael Judde from Mainz ) began his career as an imperial notary in Würzburg after studying at the University of Bologna . He later worked there as an episcopal protonotary. After he left this post, he became a scholastic at Neumünster Abbey . In 1332 he acquired the “Hof zum Großer Löwen” (in today's Dominikanergasse) in Würzburg, after which he later named himself. This served as a family seat for him and his descendants. The house book he commissioned was probably created between 1345 and 1354 with the intention of creating a reference work for his descendants. The house book should pass into the possession of the family owner of the Löwenhof. It was provisionally completed in 1350, coordinated by Gyselher, the scribe Michaels, but was continuously updated in the following years. Some of the supplements even date from the time after Michael de Leone's death in 1355. Originally the house book consisted of 33 chapters, divided into two volumes. The first chapter of the first volume was carried over into the second volume. Today the first volume is lost; only a few fragments and copies of it exist in other writings, and its table of contents is also listed in the second volume, which has been preserved. The first volume contained, among other things, the Renner of Hugo von Trimberg , an almost 17,000 verses comprehensive didactic poetry.

From Volume 2, the Würzburg song manuscript, 285 parchment sheets in the format 34.5 × 26.5 cm have survived today. The texts are in Gothic book script, written in two columns in red and black ink and provided with additional information, headings and chapter numbers. The typeface shows that more than twelve scribes worked on it. Michael de Leone was actively involved in the design of the house book, which is evidenced by his marginal notes. The manuscript contains a collection of medieval German and Latin literature, such as prayers, memorabilia, sentences and riddles. The Würzburg song manuscript is known (and therefore also named as such) mainly because it also contains works by the medieval poets Walther von der Vogelweide and Reinmar the Elder . A total of 376 stanzas by the two singers have survived, some of which are, however, assigned to other singers in other codices. Because although every song is preceded by the author's name, there is no constant order. Seven leaves are missing from the song collection, which corresponds to 50 additional stanzas.

Karl Lachmann introduced the designation Sigle e for the verses 342–376 of the two singers, but the Sigle E is more common for the entire song manuscript. Today the Würzburg song manuscript is kept in the University Library in Munich and has the signature 2 ° Cod. Ms. 731. A complete facsimile of the house book as well as various partial facsimiles have already been published.

Contents of the second volume (selection)

  • Register for both volumes
  • ABC, prayers
  • Gratitude ( modesty )
  • Latin verses
  • Funerary inscriptions
  • Konrad von Würzburg ( The Golden Forge , The Tournament of Nantes )
  • The world
  • Honorius Augustodunensis ( Elucidarium , Lucidarius )
  • Daz buoch by guoter spise , the first cookbook in German
  • Regimen sanitatis
  • Further dietary rules and bloodletting regulations
  • The six colors
  • Song collection
  • The King of Odenwald
  • Latin verses
  • Poems
  • claims
  • Plague writings
  • Talk
  • Pseudo-Aristotelian 'physiognomy
  • Würzburg police operations
  • Hermann von Schildesche
  • De laudibus gestis Ottonis Wolfskehl
  • More texts

See also

literature

  • Walther Killy (Ed.): Literature Lexicon . Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh 1992, ISBN 3-570-03712-6
  • Horst Brunner (ed.): The house book of Michael de Leone (Würzburg song manuscript) of the Munich University Library (2 ° Cod. Ms. 731) . Kümmerle Verlag, Göppingen 1983 (= Litterae , 100), ISBN 3-87452-548-1
  • Hugo Moser and Helmut Tervooren: The Minnesang's Spring. II Editing principles, melodies, manuscripts, explanations . S. Hirzel-Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-777-60331-7
  • Peter Keyser: Michael de Leone († 1355) and his literary collection . Commission publisher F. Schöningh, Würzburg 1966
  • Gisela Kornrumpf : Michael de Leone. In: Kurt Ruh (Ed.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon. Volume 6. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1987, ISBN 3-11-010754-6 , 491-503.
  • Christa Bertelsmeier-Kierst : The "house book" of Michael de Leone. On the program and structure of the collection . In: Horst Brunner (Ed.): Würzburg, the Great Lion Court and the German literature of the late Middle Ages . Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, pp. 227-250, ISBN 3-89500-318-2
  • Joachim Bumke : Patrons in the Middle Ages . Munich 1979, ISBN 3-406-04871-4
  • Ulrich Müller: The songs of Reinmar and Walthers von der Vogelweide from the Würzburg manuscript 2 ° Cod. Ms. 731 of the Munich University Library. I. facsimile. With an introduction by Gisela Kornrumpf . Wiesbaden 1972, ISBN 978-3-920153-12-4
  • Bernhard Schnell : The "house book" as a carrier of tradition. About Michael de Leone and the ›Iatromathematic House Book‹ . In: Würzburg specialist prose studies. Contributions to medieval medicine, pharmacy and class history from the Würzburg Medical History Institute, [Festschrift] Michael Holler on his 60th birthday. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995 (= Würzburg medical history research , 38), ISBN 3-8260-1113-9 , pp. 118-133.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Schneider: Folk culture and everyday life. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume 1 (2001): From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasants' War. ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 , pp. 491–514 and 661–665, here: p. 512 f., Plate 44: Wappenstein (in the chapel of the citizens' hospital ) from the Hof zum Großer Löwen (Dominikanerstraße 6) with the Coat of arms of the Jude / von Löwen (de Leone) family.
  2. ^ Bruno Rottenbach: Würzburg street names. Volume 1. Franconian company printing house, Würzburg 1967, p. 76 f.
  3. ↑ Trude Ehlert : Das Bůch von gůter spîse: culinary importance and cultural and historical value. Auer, Donauwörth 1994 (supplement to the facsimile edition, edited by Tupperware Germany, ISBN 3-403-02404-0 ), p. 8.