Composite manuscript

Collective manuscripts , sometimes also called miscellular manuscripts , are heterogeneous manuscripts in which different texts - works of different authors or literary genres and types of text - are combined in a codex . Above all, shorter texts such as Minnereden , Schwänke , songs , sermons , etc. are almost always handed down in collective manuscripts. Conceptually, they can be set up as collections, they can be written down relatively indiscriminately for the purpose of preservation, but they can also only be created afterwards by tying together initially independent fascicles . (In the latter case one speaks of a bookbinder synthesis). Collective manuscripts can have thematic focuses. B. sacred, medical, legal or secular-literary collective manuscripts. Codices with a focus on lyric texts are also called song manuscript , songbook or canzoniere . The most famous example of this is the Codex Manesse .

literature

• P. Neumann: collective manuscript . In: Lexicon of the entire book industry . Second, completely revised edition. Volume 6 (2003), p. 477.
• Sarah Westphal: composite manuscript . In: John M. Jeep (Ed.): Medieval Germany. To Encyclopedia . New York & London 2001 ISBN 0-8240-7644-3 , pp. 691-694.