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Nibelungenlied (F)

33th Âventiure, 1956, 4 – 1977, 2

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Alba Iulia, Biblioteca Batthyaneum, MS III.70

Adrian Papahagi, UBB Cluj (CODEX Centre), 2026 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Nibelungenlied F
Shelfmarks MS III.70
Page/Folio Reference front pastedown
Material Parchment (now lost)
Place of Origin Bavaria
Date of Origin 1251-1300
Script, Hands

One hand, early Northern Textualis. Note the straight s in word final position.  

Original Condition

Page Height 220 – 230 mm
Page Width 145 – 150 mm
Height of Written Area 195 – 200 mm
Width of Written Area 135 – 140 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 65 mm
Number of Lines 35
Line Height 5 – 6 mm
Ruling drypoint?

Current Condition

Extent only traces on the inner side of the front wooden board
Dimensions [220 x 145] mm
More about the Current Condition

The parchment leaf was lost between 1898, when Béla Alter published a facsimile, and 1919, when Robert Szentiványi drafted his catalogue entries (published in 1958). Only traces of the side pasted to the wooden board have survived.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Reserved spaces, but no rubricated initials.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language German
    • Title Nibelungenlied (F)
    • Content Description

      [33. Âventiure] 

      (recto) [ob ich des] //swaeren solde,   ine chundez nimmer gesagen... X (verso) [V]olker der vil chune zu Danchwarte sprach: ir habt erlieden (Str. 1956,4-1977,2 in the edn. of Karl Bartsch & Helmut de Boor)
    • Nibelungenlied_F_recto_Bela_Alter_1898_
    • Edition Béla Alter, A Gyulafehérvári F. Nibelung Codex-Töredék, Rózsahegy, 1898.
    • Secondary Literature cf. Bibliography below

History

Origin

The host volume was owned in Oberaltaich, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, in 1397. Oberaltaich is close to Regensburg. The Nibelungenlied is written in a Bavarian-Austrian dialect. The original manuscript may have therefore been produced in the region.
Provenance

The host manuscript was owned by the priest "Chunrat Stürk" from Oberaltaich, Bavaria, in 1397. He wrote the following note on the rear pastedown: "Nota Do man zalt von Kristus ..... mccclxxxxvij [1397] jar an der Erchtage... nach sand Michels tag der do [war ein] Sampztag ist gestorben der ..... Nider (?) war frum chnecht und unser lieber pruder Hans der Rosenpechk und pegraben an dem negsten pfinztag dar nach in unser pfarr czu obern Altach [Oberaltaich, Bayern] got hab sein sel. Chunrat Stürk pfarr do selb hat .... und das puchel ist sein gewesen." 

The host volume may have arrived at the Batthyaneum Library in Alba Iulia after 1782, when Ignatius Batthyány (1741-1798), bishop of Transylvania (1781-1797) purchased the library of Cardinal Christoph Migazzi (1714-1803), Prince-Archbishop of Vienna (1757-1803). This suggest that in the 18th c. the host volume had migrated from the region of Regensburg to Vienna. 
Persons and Institutions Migazzi, Christoph Anton von, 1714-1803, previous owner Batthyány, Ignác, 1741-1798, previous owner

Host Volume

Title MS III.70, Hadamar von Laber, Die Jagd, 35 fols., 206 x 132 mm, Bavaria, bef. 1397.
Date of Origin/Publication 1371-1395?
Place of Origin/Publication Bavaria
Shelfmark MS III.70
Remarks

Original binding, s. XIVex-XV.

Bibliography

  • Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen, Nibelungen. Übersicht der seit 1820 bekannt gewordenen Nibelungen-Handschriften und Bruchstücke und Abdruck der letzten, in: Von der Hagens Germania 1 (1836), 178-194, at 337f. (with illustration).

     http://books.google.com/books?id=goYNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA178

  • Béla Alter, A Gyulafehérvári F. Nibelung Codex-Töredék, Rózsahegy, 1898 (with illustrations).

  • Gustav Könnecke, Die Handschriften des Nibelungenliedes und der Klage. Sonder-Abdruck aus der 2. Auflage von Könnecke's Bilderatlas zur Geschichte der deutschen Nationalitteratur, vermehrt durch vollständige Wiedergabe der Bruchstücke E und F, Marburg, 1901, p. 34.

     http://www.archive.org/details/dasnibelungenlie00abeluoft

  • Theodor Abeling, Das Nibelungenlied und seine Literatur (Teutonia 7), Leipzig, 1907, p. 166f.

     http://www.archive.org/details/dasnibelungenlie00abeluoft

  • Robert Gragger, Deutsche Handschriften in ungarischen Bibliotheken (Ungarische Bibliothek I,2), Berlin/Leipzig, 1921, p. 43f.

     https://real-eod.mtak.hu/id/eprint/1640

  • Robert Szentiványi, Catalogus concinnus librorum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Batthyányanae, Editio quarta retractata adaucta illuminata, Szeged, 1958, p. 211f. (Nr. 378).

  • Joachim Wittstock, "Altes deutsches Schrifttum im "Batthyaneum" von Karlsburg / Alba Iulia", Forschungen zur Volks- und Landeskunde 38 (1995), 75-83, at 79-81.

  • "Uns ist in alten Mären ...". Das Nibelungenlied und seine Welt. Ausstellung im Badischen Landesmuseum Schloß Karlsruhe 13.12.2003 - 14.3.2004, Darmstadt, 2003, p. 195 (Nr. 175).

  • Klaus Klein, "Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Handschriften des Nibelungenliedes", in: Die Nibelungen. Sage - Epos - Mythos, ed. by Joachim Heinzle, Klaus Klein und Ute Obhof, Wiesbaden, 2003, 213-238, at 218f.

  • Adrian Papahagi, Adinel-Ciprian Dincă, with Andreea Mârza, Manuscrisele medievale occidentale din România: Census, Iaşi, 2018, 102-103 (Nr. 254).

  • Cristina Voina, "Valori europene ale Bibliotecii Batthyaneum. Manuscrisul Die Jagd, Hadamar von Laber, sec. XIV, o Minneallegorie", Apulum 56.2 (2019), 1-10.
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