Weingartner song manuscript

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The Weingartner Liederhandschrift , a rare Stuttgart songhandwriting , also called handwriting B for short in German studies , is a collection of Minne lyric from the early 14th century . Exceptions are a song by Walther von der Vogelweide , fragments of a Marienklage (which is attributed in handwriting C to Gottfried von Straßburg , but does not come from him), the Minnelehre of Johann von Konstanz and a later entry of ten lines on page 310. It was probably made in Constance between 1310 and 1320 . Manuscript B brings together all the important poets of the High Middle Ages who worked between 1170/80 and 1230/40.

The Weingartner manuscript, along with the other two Upper German song manuscripts, the large and the small Heidelberg song manuscript, is the main source of our knowledge of the heyday of minstrels.

Provenance

The manuscript may have originally been part of the Cathedral Library in Konstanz . The mayor of Constance, Marx Schulthais, is named as the previous owner of the song manuscript. At the beginning of the 17th century it was donated to the Upper Swabian Abbey of Weingarten . Johann Jakob Bodmer inspected the manuscript in 1780, and in 1781 Leonhart Meister first reported some passages of the text. Today the manuscript is in the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart under the signature HB XIII 1.

description

The manuscript contains 33 text blocks in Gothic minuscule on I + 157 sheets of parchment and was written by five hands. The book is very small at 15 × 11.5 cm. The work was paginated by a later hand. The last seven pages and some pages in the corpus are blank. The texts are entered in stanzas on pre-lined sheets without column structure (exception is the Marienklage, pp. 229–238). The verse ends were not taken into account, only partially marked by rhyme dots.

There are 31 collections of poets, of which 25 are only given the names of the authors and 6 are actually identifiable. The named author names are Middle High German poets from the end of the 12th to the middle of the 13th century. The collection is structured in a hierarchical order (beginning with Emperor Heinrich ), which later forms a different order.

First part (pp. 1–170)

The first part contains 25 collections of poets. The beginnings of the stanzas are marked in red and blue initial changes and some end in flourishes. There are also 25 full- and half-page illustrations of the poets, but these are less individual miniatures (portraits) than standardized representations of their profession.

The painter of the poet portraits, who is not known by name, is sometimes referred to in the professional world as the master of Weingartner song manuscript .

Second part

After seven blank pages, the second part begins on page 178 and ends on page 251. This part is only partially decorated. There are no miniatures at all, pages are left blank instead.

third part

The third part begins on page 253. Here there are new, only red decorations of the initials and a few other letters. Pages 306-309 and 311-312 are blank. In the upper side of the individual collections, the names of the authors are occasionally added later.

Authors

The manuscript lists the following authors:

  1. Emperor Heinrich
  2. Rudolf von Fenis
  3. Friedrich von Hausen
  4. Burgrave of Rietenburg
  5. Meinloh from Sevelingen
  6. Otto von Botenlauben
  7. Bligger from Steinach
  8. Dietmar von Aist
  9. Hartmann von Aue
  10. Albrecht von Johansdorf
  11. Heinrich von Rugge
  12. Heinrich von Veldeke
  13. Reinmar von Hagenau
  2. Ulrich von Gutenburg
  3. Bergner from Horheim
  4. Heinrich von Morungen
  5. Ulrich von Munegur
  6. Hartwig von Raute
  7. Ulrich von Singenberg
  8. Wahsmuot by Kunzich
  9. Hiltbolt from Schwangau
  10. Wilhelm von Heinzenberg
  11. Leuthold von Seven
  12. ruby
  13. Walther von der Vogelweide
  14. Wolfram von Eschenbach (without picture and naming)

literature

  • Franz Pfeiffer (Ed.): Weingartner Liederhandschrift . 1843 ( digitized in the Google book search; also at the University of Michigan)
  • Georg Wilhelm Zapf: Travels to some monasteries in Swabia, through the Black Forest and to Switzerland. Erlangen, 1786, p. 13 ( digitized in the Google book search)
  • Carmen Kämmerer: The Weingartner song manuscript in the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart . In: Library Service . tape 44 , no. 6 , 2010, ISSN  0006-1972 , ZDB -ID 501896-1 , p. 553-564 ( online [accessed November 26, 2015]).
  • Ulrich Kuder: HB XIII 1 . In: Christine Sauer (arrangement): The Gothic manuscripts of the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart. 1: From the late 12th to the early 14th century . Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1996 ( Monuments of Book Art 12) ( Catalog of the illuminated manuscripts of the Württemberg State Library Stuttgart 3) ISBN 3-7772-9603-1 ( online ).
  • Maria Sophia Buhl and Lotte Kurras (arrangement): The manuscripts of the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart. Row 2, Vol. 4, Part 2: Codices physici, medici, mathematici etc. (HB XI 1-56). Poetae (HB XII 1-23). Poetae Germanici (HB XIII 1-11). Vitae sanctorum (HB XIV 1-28) . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1969, p. 79 ( online ).

Web links

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