Tegernsee letter collection

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The Tegernsee letter collection is an important collection of 306 Latin letters that were entered into a collective code of the Tegernsee monastery between 1178 and 1186 . This codex , which is now stored in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek under the signature clm 19411, represented a thematically closed, large collection of texts on the art of writing ( ars dictaminis ); In addition to the collection of letters, it also contains excerpts from the Gesta Friderici of Otto von Freising with all letters and documents, Alberichs von Montecassino Breviarium de dictamine , the Praecepta dictaminum of Adalbertus Samaritanus , the letter samples of Henricus Francigena , a famous love letter sample collection (see below ), Wipos and Otloh's collections of aphorisms , the Ludus de Antichristo , poems about the deeds of Heracles and other material for learning about the Ars dictaminis .

About half of the letters in the collection are genuine letters from the Tegernsee chancellery on imperial and local political events in the 12th century. The remaining letters, some of which can be assigned to the beginning of the 11th century, deal with matters of everyday life in the monastery. Most of these letters - for no real reason - were drafted as sample letters .

The Tegernsee letter collection is also well-known for German literature: the codex contains eleven Latin letters of love and friendship, two of which end up changing to Middle High German verse or rhyming prose . The well-known Dû bist mîn, I am dîn is one of those letters ending. The context from which the love letters originate is just as controversial as their authenticity or fiction. Since both the sender and the addressee are predominantly female (convent students, canon women?), The letters - regardless of whether they are sample letters or remnants of real correspondence - cannot come from the male monastery in Tegernsee. The cultural background of such love rhetoric in an educated spiritual milieu and the contacts between early German love poetry and Latin language art are the subject of current research.

literature

  • The Tegernsee letter collection from the 12th century . Edited by Helmut Plechl with the assistance of Werner Bergmann. Hannover 2002 (MGH Epistolae. The letters of the German Empire 8) online .
  • Franz Josef Worstbrock : Tegernsee love letters. In: Author's Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Volume 9, Col. 671-673.
  • Jürgen Kühnel: 'You're mîn, ih am dîn'. The Latin love (and friendship) letters of the clm 19411 , Göppingen 1977 (Litterae 52).
  • Dieter Schaller : On the textual criticism and assessment of the so-called 'Tegernsee love letters' . In: ZfdPh 101 (1982), pp. 104-121.
  • Helmut Plechl: The Tegernsee manuscript Clm 19411. Description and content , in: Deutsches Archiv 18 (1962), pp. 418–501. digizeitschriften.de

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Werner E. Gerabek : Healing matters in the Tegernsee letter collection from the 11th century. In: Würzburger medical history reports 8, 1990, pp. 15-25

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