Middle High German Devotional Poetry – Fragment
Parchment · 10 horizontal strips, detached; 6 of them pasted together to form a bifolium · 1301 – 1325 CE · Southern Germany (Swabian region) · bifolium: 74 x 140F-t8jm
Tübingen, Konviktsbibliothek Wilhelmsstift, Gb 571 (A)
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Michael Braunger, Tübingen 2026
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Text Language
Restored
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Persons
Angelus, Carletus
(Author)
Koberger, Anton
(Printer of Host Volume)
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Provenance:
Kloster Pfullingen
Provenance:
Kloster Zwiefalten
Origin:
Nürnberg
Summary
C. 100 verses from a South German redemption poem; the narrative in the surviving fragments ranges from the legend of Cain to the Baptism and includes references to the Judas legend (see Wachinger 2012, p. 361).
Two further fragments from the same host volume are Gb 571 (B), a calendar dating to around 1200, and Gb 571 (C), a 12th-century psalter.
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Michael Braunger, Tübingen
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Description: Arrangement in the presumed leaf order
