{"id":4854,"date":"2018-01-05T09:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T07:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2017-12-11T00:06:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T22:06:29","slug":"discovery-love-codex-manesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/discovery-love-codex-manesse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Discovery of Love – Codex Manesse"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are works of art which unmistakably define, and indeed are almost synonymous with, an epoch, a movement or an artistic technique.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
An example of German miniature in the Codex Manesse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the field of manuscript illumination, this is the case with Tr\u00e8s Riches Heures du Duc de Berry<\/a><\/strong> for Franco-Flemish illumination, Bibbia di Borso d\u2019Este<\/a><\/strong> for Italian illumination and Codex Manesse<\/a><\/strong> for German illumination, given that the volume, pride of the Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek<\/b> in Heidelberg<\/b> (the famous Palatine Library, where it is catalogued as Cod. Pal. germ. 848) can be considered the single most important item of Germanic book heritage \u201cbefore Gutenberg\u201d both for its lavish decoration and its textual content: the largest, richest and most important literary source relating to those \u201ctroubadours\u201d of Mediaeval courtly song known as Minnes\u00e4nger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Couple in love<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Codex Manesse – A Book about Love<\/h3>\n

Inspired by Arabic love poetry<\/strong>, which arrived in the West at the time of the Crusades, or, more likely, by the Proven\u00e7al troubadour tradition, it too imported from the German Crusades or filtered through into Germany via the Rhine border, the Minnesang<\/em>, so called in Middle High German<\/strong> because it was a \u201csong\u201d (Sang<\/i>) dedicated to love between a man and a woman (Minne<\/i>), was a verse composition recited by noble enthusiasts of this poetic genre, often in the form of a song and accompanied by stringed instruments, before a learned and refined audience at the Germanic feudal courts.<\/p>\n

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Details of instrument-playing figures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Created in the early 14th century before about 1340, probably in Zurich or in the region of Lake Constance, the 426 fine parchment folios of the Codex Manesse<\/strong> (or Grosse Heidelberger Liederhandschrift<\/strong>) contain almost 6000 verses by 140 authors from between 1150-1160 and 1330-1340, 137 of whom are portrayed in full-page spreads at the beginning of their respective compositions, with added name and often the family coat of arms.<\/p>\n

In case you missed it go and check out our beautiful high-definition gallery of the Codex Manesse!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Full-page illumination<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Article written by Gianfranco Malafarina<\/strong>\u00a0for Alumina – Pagine Miniate.
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