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    The Codex Manesse (also Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift or Pariser Handschrift) is a Liederhandschrift (manuscript containing songs), the single...
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    codex (pl.: codices /ˈkoʊdɪsiːz/) was the historical ancestor format of the modern book. Technically, the vast majority of modern books use the codex...
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    marble statue by Bertel Thorvaldsen to his memory. In the 14th-century Codex Manesse, a collection of medieval German lyrics, preserved at Heidelberg, there...
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    1191–1197) from Codex Manesse (c. 1304). Tomb of Henry VII (d. 1313), with the emperor's coats of arms and the imperial eagle (Codex Balduini Trevirorum...
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    as being descended of an Old Styrian noble family. The illustrated Codex Manesse manuscript (about 1300–1340) depicts him clad in the Teutonic Order...
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  • French actor and composer Hélène Manesse [fr] (born 1941), French actress Codex Manesse, 14th-century manuscript in codex form This disambiguation page lists...
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    scroll, he is the first and foremost to be portrayed in the famous Codex Manesse, a 14th-century songbook manuscript featuring 140 reputed poets; at...
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    clothing and embroidery Archived 2007-07-02 at the Wayback Machine Digital Codex Manesse 14th Century at de Vieuxchamps The Cotehardie & Houppelande Homepage...
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    for entertainment. Certain tournaments are depicted throughout the Codex Manesse. The word tournament evolved from the Middle English tornement which...
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    (or Suesskind of Trimberg) is given as the author of six poems in the Codex Manesse. The poems date to the second half of the 13th century, and if their...
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    a tournament, Codex Manesse (Herzog von Anhalt, fol. 17r), c. 1305–1315. Illustration of combat with sword and buckler, Codex Manesse (Von Scharpfenberg...
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    in Codex Manesse. He was a citizen of Zürich, and is on record as buying a house there in 1302. There are 51 songs by Hadlaub in the Codex Manesse, and...
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    Heidelberg and Wiesloch to Pforzheim in the Black Forest, and back. The Codex Manesse includes four sophisticated Middle High German lyrics in the tagelied...
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    articles and books about her, such as a queen from the 14th century Codex Manesse. The stained glass window in Poitiers Cathedral with a donor portrait...
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    coat of arms of minnesinger Reinmar von Zweter (c. 1200–1248) in the Codex Manesse (c. 1300). An unrelated depiction of the Reichsadler with three heads...
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    also produced for collections of courtly epic or lyric poetry. The Codex Manesse is a well-known example of an illustrated manuscript, produced in Zurich...
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  • name of the publishing house was based on the Codex Manesse. The first two works published by Manesse Verlag in 1944 were "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville...
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    Emperor Henry VI (18 years old then) survived the Latrinensturz disaster. (Illustration from Codex Manesse, 14th century)...
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    fiddle from c. 1310, Ormesby Psalter, Bodleian Library Vielle from the Codex Manesse, UB Heidelberg, c. 1305-1315. Modern build of a viella from Spain. Based...
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    the High German area. The largest single collection is found in the Codex Manesse, which includes around 90% of his known songs. However, most Minnesang...
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    earliest Minnesänger. Fifteen strophes of his songs are preserved in the Codex Manesse and the Budapest Fragment. Since his given name remains unknown ("Der"...
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    Manesse. It is unclear whether the family is named after the castle or vice versa. The family's name is best known for being eponymous of the Codex Manesse...
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    Latin and Greek works came back from Paris to Heidelberg. In 1888 the Codex Manesse, which was at that point located in the Royal Library in Paris, returned...
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    constant width. The top of the hat becomes flatter, or rounded (as in the Codex Manesse picture). The materials used are unclear from art, and may have included...
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    were rendered in later Liederhandschrift manuscripts, among them the Codex Manesse; it was depicted as a historic event already by medieval chroniclers...
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  • triple-headed eagles are not unknown, and one eagle appearing in the Codex Manesse has its wing bones fashioned into additional heads. Eagles and their...
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    depicted in both the Weingartner Liederhandschrift and the Codex Manesse. In the Codex Manesse, he is shown under a triangular shield blazoned Or, on a...
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    Henry himself was a talented poet; two of his poems were recorded in Codex Manesse. Henry IV died suddenly in 1290, aged no more than thirty-two years...
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    A 14th-century depiction of the 13th-century German knight Hartmann von Aue, from the Codex Manesse...
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    source of the text (dated to the 1270s), giving seven stanzas. The Codex Manesse (ms. C, fol 126rv, dated c. 1304) has nine stanzas. Other manuscripts...
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