Die Klag vom Wolf am Hage

Name:

Schmieher, Peter, active 15th century

Timespan:

Middle High German, 1050-1500

Date:

1400

Description:

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

Language:

German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500)

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

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); poems; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

4 leaves : paper; 286 x 200 (241 x 155) mm bound to 286 x 202 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Table of 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/.; 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.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 872