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Hague Song Manuscript Facsimile Edition

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The Hague Song Manuscript is a parchment collection of courtly poetry produced around 1400, probably in the duchy of Guelders. Written by a single scribe, it preserves songs without musical notation, love complaints, dialogues, riddles, allegorical poems, and moralizing verse in a multilingual Dutch-German literary milieu. Its restrained decoration consists chiefly of red lombard initials and rubrication, with one blue decorated initial on a gold ground. Once owned by John IV of Nassau-Breda and Maria of Loon, the manuscript later entered the Dutch national library.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Hague Song Manuscript": Haager Liederhandschrift facsimile edition, published by Martinus Nijhoff, 1940

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Haager Liederhandschrift

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1940

  • Commentary (Dutch) by Kossmann, E. F.
  • This is a partial facsimile of the original document, Hague Song Manuscript: the facsimile might represent only a part, or doesn't attempt to replicate the format, or doesn't imitate the look-and-feel of the original document.

The facsimile folios are reproduced in black and white on a larger white background.

Facsimile and commentary are included in the same volume.

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