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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 140

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Tübingen, Konviktsbibliothek Wilhelmsstift, Gb 571 (A)

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German

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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.

(Michael Braunger, Tübingen)

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Michael Braunger, Tübingen 2026
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04/30/2026

Middle High German Devotional Poetry

Parchment · 10 horizontal strips, detached; 6 of them pasted together to form a bifolium · 1301 – 1325 CE · Southern Germany (Swabian region) · bifolium: 74 x 140

F-t8jm

Tübingen, Konviktsbibliothek Wilhelmsstift, Gb 571 (A)

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 140