The Minnesingers: Portraits from the Weingartner Manuscript

11, [1], 24 pp. Red leather, marbled endpapers. A short volume providing historical context for the imagery contained in the Weingartner manuscript, along with color reproductions of all 24 figures. The Weingarten Manuscript (German Weingartner Liederhandschrift) is a 14th-century illuminated manuscript containing a collection of Minnesang lyrics. It is currently in the Wurttembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the shelf-mark HB XIII 1. In Minnesang scholarship it is referred to as Manuscript B. Along with the Codex Manesse (MS. C) and the Kleine Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (MS. A) it is one of the major sources of Minnesang texts from the beginnings (around 1150) to the end of the 'golden age' (around 1230).