Details

Subjects:

German poetry -- Middle High German, 1050-1500.
German poetry.
German poetry -- Middle High German.

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
Poetry.
Manuscripts, German (Middle High) -- 15th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Summary:

Fragment of four folios containing three poems of which the second can definitely be assigned to Schmieher (Zacour-Hirsch).

Contents:

1. f.1r: Poem [incomplete at beginning?] inc.: Der jung sprach ich mu[beta] in sehen/ wie mir darvmb mug geschen/
2. f.1r-2r: Die Klag vom Wolf am Hage.
3. f.2r-4v: Poem [incomplete at end?] inc.: Ich waisz kain besser lust/ wann esen trinken vnd minen/.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title of second work (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 4; 170-174, contemporary foliation in ink, lower left recto; [1-4], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 36-38 lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Rubricated initials, capitals, and explicits throughout.
Binding: 19th-century boards.
Origin: Written in Germany in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Edges of leaves repaired partially obscuring text at top.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Georg Kloss (Frankfurt am Main; bookplate, inside upper cover)
Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillips, no. 11049.
Sold at auction at Brandes (Wolfgang Brandes, Braunschweig, Germany; cat. 28), 4-6 November 1957, lot 3222, to Helmuth Domizlaff for the University of Pennsylvania.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), pp. 81-82 (Ms. German 14).
Complete shorter version for item 2, see C. Wendeler, Studien über Hans Rosenplüt, Archiv für die Geschichte deutscher Sprache, I[1874], 97-133, 385-436, esp. 388-408.

Publications about:

Clark, R. C. "'Die clag von wolff eim hage' -- A 15th century manuscript." Modern Language Notes 37.4 (October 1967), 421-427. Two reprints are in the library's files.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 872.

Contributor:

Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard, 1787-1854, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

Contains:

Der jung sprach ich mu[beta] in sehen/ wie mir darvmb mug geschen.
Ich waisz kain besser lust/ wann esen trinken vnd minen.

OCLC:

155919921