, Nibelungenlied' - (Transcriptiones) by Mario Klarer (Hardcover)

About the Book

The 'Ambraser Heldenbuch, ' commissioned by Maximilian I, is one of the most important sources of medieval German literature. In this eleven-volume complete edition, all 25 texts from the codex appear in print for the first time in their original Early Modern High German wording - for 15 of which there is only a singular transmission. Alongside a precise, diplomatic transcription, this edition also provides additional manuscript scans.

Book Synopsis

In this eleven-volume complete transcription of the 'Ambraser Heldenbuch, ' all texts appear in the original Early High German for the first time. A transcription that is faithful to individual characters used by the scribe is synoptically juxtaposed with the manuscript image. A second, diplomatic transcription is arranged by verses and numbered according to established editions. The lavishly illustrated manuscript of almost 250 parchment folios, commissioned by Emperor Maximilian I at the beginning of the sixteenth century, is one of the most important sources of German narrative literature of the Middle Ages. Volume 6 contains the epic 'Nibelungenlied, ' which has survived in a total of 37 textual sources, many of which, however, are only fragments of manuscripts. The present transcription reproduces 32 of 39 âventiures of the 'Nibelungenlied.'

From the Back Cover

In dieser elfbändigen Gesamttranskription des, Ambraser Heldenbuchs' erscheinen erstmals alle Texte im frühneuhochdeutschen Originalwortlaut. Die zeichengetreue Transkription ist synoptisch dem Manuskriptbild gegenübergestellt. Die diplomatische Transkription ist nach Versen umbrochen, die gemäß etablierten Editionen nummeriert sind. Die fast 250 Pergamentblätter umfassende Prunkhandschrift, die von Maximilian I. zu Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts in Auftrag gegeben wurde, zählt zu den wichtigsten Quellen deutschsprachiger Literatur des Mittelalters. Band 6 beinhaltet das Epos, Nibelungenlied', das in insgesamt 37 Textzeugen überliefert ist, von denen jedoch viele nur Fragmente von Handschriften sind.

About the Author

Mario Klarer, University of Innsbruck, Austria.