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75/47 Medieval manuscripts Codex Manesse Die große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift Ed I F Walther

75/ 47 [Medieval manuscripts]. Codex Manesse. Die große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift. Ed. I.F. Walther. Frankf. a.M., Insel Verlag, 1974-1979, 426 facs. lvs., 137 (full-p.) col. ills., printed in colours and gold in 750 numb. copies, orig. blindst. calf w. brass clasps and catches, folio.

- Without the commentary vol. by W. Koschorreck and W. Werner (1981).

= Facs. edition of Codex Palatinus Germanicus 848 in the Universitätsbibliothek, Heidelberg. Sumptuous facsimile edition of this magnificent medieval songbook. It is the single most comprehensive source of Middle High German Minnesang poetry, written and illuminated in Zurich in the early 14th century, for the Manesse (or Manegg) family, at that time the most wealthy family of Zurich.

WITH: Walther, I.F. (ed.). Codex Manesse. Die Miniaturen der Grossen Heidelberger Liederhandschrift. Ibid., idem, 1988, XXXVII,(1),281,(1)p., 142 (full-p.) col. ills., orig. boards, sm. 4to.

- Bookplate on first free endpaper. Binding discoloured. Otherwise fine.

€ (500-700) 1400