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Medieval Vernacular Literature: Primary Sources

Library and Internet resources about medieval literature in European vernacular languages.

Overview

Bibliographies and Catalogs
Poetry Collections
Drama
Heroic Poems
Manuscript Databases
Manuscripts and Fascimiles
Publisher Series
Arthurian Romance
Sacred Texts
Folklore

Bibliographies and Catalogs

Chronologie der deutschen Literatur (Website) by BIBLIOTHECA AUGUSTANA
Includes primary and secondary material for a range of authors from the eighth to twentieth centuries.
Manuscripta poetica et romanensia ; Manuscripta theatralia by Birgitt Hilberg
Call Number: Z6621.G36 H36 v.4/2
Altdeutsch : Katalog aller allgemein bekannten Altdeutschhandschriften : Althochdeutsch, Altsächsisch, Altniederfränkisch
Call Number: Z6605.G3 K63 2005
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Verzeichnis der altdeutschen literarischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek
Call Number: Z6621.V62 G45 Bd.1
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Die Fragmente mittelalterlicher deutscher Versdichtung der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München (Cgm 5249/1-79) by Karin Schneider
Call Number: PT187 .B39 1996
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Music of the Minnesinger and early Meistersinger, a bibliography. by Robert Linker
Call Number: ML128.N3 L6
Katalog der deutschsprachigen geistlichen Spiele und Marienklagen des Mittelalters by Rolf Bergmann
Call Number: Z5782.A2 B42 1986

Publisher Series

Sacred Texts

Flowing light of the divinity by Mechthild von Magdeburg ; Christiane Mesch Galvani (Translator)
Call Number: BV5091.V6 M43415 1990
German mystical writings by Karen J. Campbell
Call Number: BV5080 .G38 1991
The Poems of Ava by Andrew L. Thornton (Translator)
Call Number: PT1501.A9 D5313 2003
Beguine spirituality : mystical writings of Mechthild of Magdeburg, Beatrice of Nazareth, and Hadewijch of Brabant by Oliver Davies (Translator)
Call Number: BV5082.2 .B435 1990

Drama

Schauspiele des mittelalters. [microform] by F.J. Mone
Call Number: MICROFILM 8346.1
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL
Nine carnival plays by Randall W. Listerman (Translator); Hans Sachs
Call Number: PT1767.E5 L57 1990
German theater before 1750 by Gerald Gillespie (Editor)
Call Number: PT1258 .G48 1991
Das Fastnachtspiel des Spätmittelalters: Gestalt und Funktion by Eckehard Catholy

Epic Poems

Dietrich und Siegfried
Rosengarten zu Worms
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 359, f. 49r

Die Kreuzfahrt des Landgrafen Ludwigs des Frommen von Thüringen by Hans Naumann
Call Number: DD3.M8 S76 v.4
A heroic poem, describing the siege of Acre, probably written in 1301 by an unknown ecclesiastic at the court of Bolko I, duke of Schweidnitz-Jauer--Cf. Einleitung.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Kreuzzugsdichtung by Ulrich Müller
Call Number: PN6110.C9 M8
Chiefly in Middle High German. Latin, Old French, Provençal, and Italian texts are accompanied by German paraphrases.
German epic poetry by Francis G. Gentry and James K. Walter (Editors)
Call Number: PT1414.E5 G46 1995
Dichter über Dichter in mittelhochdeutscher Literatur by Günther Schweikle
Call Number: PT1392 .S45

Arthurian Romance

Parzival, Heidelberg University Library, UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 339, fol. 131r.

Arthurian Romances, Tales and Lyric Poetry:The Complete Works of Hartmann von Aue by Frank Tobin (Translator); Kim Vivian (Translator); Richard H. Lawson (Translator)
ISBN: 9780271021119
Erec by Hartmann von Aue; Michael Resler(Translator)
Call Number: PT1534 .E8 1987b
German medieval tales by Francis G. Gentry; Thomas Berger (Foreword by); Gentry
Call Number: PT1384 .G47 1983
German romance by Michael Resler (editor)
Call Number: PT1414.E5 R47 2003 v.1
Gregorius. by Hartmann von Aue; Hermann Paul (Translator)
Call Number: PT1534.G7 P3 1948
Iwein by Hartmann von Aue; Patrick M. McConeghy (Translator)
Call Number: PT1534 .I3 1984
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach; Cyril Edwards (Editor); Julia Walworth (Translator)
Call Number: PT1682 .A23 2004
Tristan and Isolde by Gottfried, von Strassburg
Call Number: PT1525 .A423 1988

Manuscript Databases

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Digitized manuscripts in German state libraries.
Universitat Heidelberg
Manuscripts of the University of Heidelberg
Digital Codex Manesse
Handschriftencensus
Eine Bestandsaufnahme der handschriftlichen Überlieferung deutschsprachiger Texte des Mittelalters
Manuscripta Mediaevalia
Manuscripta mediaevalia macht derzeit mehr als 75.000 Dokumente zu abendländischen Handschriften hauptsächlich in deutschen Bibliotheken verfügbar.
Liederhandschriften
Texte aus deutschen Liederhandschriften des Mittelalters
Marburger Repertorium
Deutschsprachige Handschriften des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts
Marburger Repertorium zur Übersetzungsliteratur im deutschen Frühhumanismus
Das von der DFG von 2007 — 2012 geförderte Projekt dokumentiert in digitaler Form deutschsprachige Texte in der Epoche des deutschen Frühhumanismus.
"Codices Electronici Sangallenses" (Digitale Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen)

Manuscripts and Facsimiles

Codex Manesse : Katalog der Ausstellung vom 12. Juni bis 4. September 1988 Universitatsbibliothek Heidelberg by Elmar Mittler und Wilfried Werner
Call Number: PT1419.H4 C64 1988
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Der Oldenburger Sachsenspiegel
Digitized manuscript at the website of the Landesbibliothek Oldenburg
Der Oldenburger Sachsenspiegel
Call Number: ND3350 .G56 Bd.15/1; ND3350 .G56 Bd.15/2
Codex picturatus Oldenburgensis CIM I 410 der Landesbibliothek Oldenburg
Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters : Handschriften aus dem Bestand der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek mit Heinrich Wittenwilers "Ring" als kostbarer Neuerwerbung
Call Number: PT187 .D48 2003
Gebet und Betrachtungen des Lebens des Mittlers Gottes und des Menschen unsers Herrens Jesu Christi.
Call Number: ND3380.4.A43 G43 1997 Facsim.; ND3380.4.A43 G43 1997 Comm.
Handschriften und Frühdrucke mittelhochdeutscher Epen : Eneide, Tristrant, Tristan, Erec, Iwein, Parzival, Willehalm, Jüngerer Titurel, Nibelungenlied u. ihre Reproduktion u. Rezeption im späteren Mittelalter u. in d. frühen Neuzeit by Peter Jörg Becker
Call Number: PT202 .B4 1977
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Ritterleben im Mittelalter : Erläuterungen zu Miniaturen der Manessischen Liederhandschrift by Klaus Deuchler
Call Number: PT1419.H4 D48 1992
Sachsenspiegel.
Call Number: ND3399 .S33 2002
Facsimile of the manuscript created between 1347 and 1363, possibly in Meissen for Margrave Friedrich III, and now housed at the Sächsische Landesbibliothek--Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden under shelfmark M32.
St. Gallische Handschriften [microform] by Gustav Scherer
Call Number: MICROFILM 1515.1
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL
Wien, Österr. Nationalbibl., Cod. Ser. nova 2663 (Website)
The Ambras Book of Heroes is a significant work in the tradition of high and late medieval German epic poetry. It encompasses numerous Middle High German epics, among them the Nibelungenlied, Hartmann’s Erec and Iwein, and Ulrich of Lichtenstein’s Frauenbuch, all valuable basic texts for medieval research. The scribe Hans Ried, customs officer on the Eisack near Bolzano, copied the Book of Heroes for King Maximilian I who had ordered it for his own use.
Willehalm : Codex Vindobonensis 2670 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek by Wolfram von Eschenbach
Call Number: ND3350 .G56 Bd.14/1
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref

Poetry Collections

German poetry from the beginnings to 1750 by Ingrid Walsøe-Engel (Editor)
Call Number: PT1160.E5 G38 1991
German and Italian Lyrics of the Middle Ages by Frederick Goldin
Call Number: PT1421 .G6
The songs of the Minnesingers by Barbara Garvey Seagrave and Wesley Thomas
Call Number: ML183 .S4

Folklore

Die Fabeln des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit by Gerd Dicke, Klaus Grubmüller
Call Number: Z5896 .D5 1987
The story of Reynard the Fox. Translated by Thomas James Arnold from the original German poem Reineke Fuchs;
Call Number: PT2026.R3 A6 1954a
Tiere und Fabelwesen Im Mittelalter by Sabine Obermaier, ed.
ISBN: 9783110201376
Publication Date: 2009