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Topical Outline of Subject Matter in the Berlin MS Germ. Quart. 414
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
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Scholars and students interested in doing research work in Meistergesang will find Berlin 414 an important MS for this genre. In content, for example, it has more to offer even than the famed Kolmar MS or the Dresden M 13.
True, the Kolmar MS is in the lead numerically, as it lists more poems or Lieder than the Berlin 414, but in handling the Karl Bartsch edition of the MS, the author frequently felt that it was unsatisfactory and had many limitations when the checking of the contents was concerned, since there are but 203 Lieder completely printed out of the 940 poems. In the Berlin MS we find just about every one of the 398 poems given in their entirety.
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1 Modern Language Association, Berlin. Preussische Staatsbibliothek HS. Germ. Quart. 414: 16th Century Anthology of Meisterlieder. 379 F. (Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, 1938); for this country available in micro-film form. Footage—479 fr.
2 Karl Bartsch (ed.), Meisterlieder der Kolmarer Handschrift, “Bibliothek des Litterarischen Vereins in Stuttgart,” lxviii (Stuttgart, 1862).
3 Fritz Frauchiger, Dresden M 13: A Fifteenth-Century Collection of Religious Meisterlieder (Chicago, 1938). Private edition, distributed by the University of Chicago Libraries. (Micro-film copy available in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.).
4 Frances H. Ellis, “Analysis of the Berlin MS Germ. Quart. 414” (cf. this issue of PMLA, pp. 947-996).
5 This theme and all others listed here, unless otherwise noted, are the subject matter of the entire poem. Cf. Ellis, op. cit., for length of poems according to folios.
6 Clarence W. Friedman, Prefigurations in Meistergesang: Types from the Bible and Nature, The Catholic University of America Diss. (Washington, D. C., 1943), p. 109. (23 lines quoted). This will be designated hereafter as Friedman.
7 P. Wackernagel, Das deutsche Kirchenlied (Leipzig, 1867), ii, no. 332. This will be designated hereafter as WKL, ii.
8 Ibid., no. 1404; see also Sister Mary Juliana Schroeder, S.S.N.D., Mary-Verse in Meistergesang, The Catholic University of America Diss. (Washington, D. C., 1942), p. 158 (2 lines quoted). This will be designated hereafter as Schroeder.
9 Ibid., no. 1406; Schroeder, pp. 171-172 (8 lines).
10 Ibid., no. 1402; Schroeder, p. 157 (9 lines).
11 Schroeder, p. 159 (8 lines).
12 A. L. Mayer, Die Meisterlieder des Bans Folz, “Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters,” xii (Berlin, 1908), p. 308, no. 79; see also Schroeder, p. 161 (4 lines). First-mentioned reference will be designated hereafter as Mayer.
13 Ibid., p. 322, no. 84—poet notes four special graces that accrue to mankind through Christ's birth.
14 WKL, ii, no. 1312.
15 Ibid., no. 455.
16 Schroeder, p. 181 (4 lines); A. Dreyer, “Hans Sachs in München und die gleichzeitigen Münchner Meistersänger,” Analecta Germanica, Hermann Paul dargebracht (Amberg, 1906), pp. 363-365. Designated hereafter as Dreyer.
17 Schroeder, p. 165 (6 lines).
18 Ibid., p. 161 (6 lines).
19 Mayer, p. 233, no. 59.
20 Schroeder, p. 66 (4 lines).
21 Mayer, p. 306, no. 78; Schroeder, pp. 174-175 (12 lines); WKL, iii, no. 895.
22 Schroeder, p. 162 (5 lines).
23 Ibid., p. 136 (3 lines).
24 Mayer, p. 311, no. 80.
25 Ibid., p. 136, no. 33.
26 Schroeder, p. 252 (one lied—6).
27 Mayer, p. 168, no. 37; also WKL, ii, no. 1051.
28 Schroeder, p. 142 (4 lines).
29 WKL, ii, no. 425.
30 Ibid., no. 442.
31 Ibid., no. 629.—Some persons in the poem are mentioned by name (original spelling retained): Nabüchonosor, Hector, machelus, samson, diterich von pern, ecken, eckes, seüfrid, jüdit, rolant, künig Salomon, Cletus, hilprant der alt.
32 Ibid., no. 1403.
33 Ibid., no. 439.
34 Schroeder, p. 67 (8 lines).
35 Friedman, p. 58 (4 lines).
36 Mayer, p. 260, no. 70; Schroeder, p. 143 (6 lines).
37 WKL, ii, no. 1301.
38 Mayer, p. 26, no. 5.
39 WKL, ii, no. 1300—two versions.
40 Ibid., no. 1311.—The author of this lied, Cüncz Nachtigale, seems to have a rather complete list, “mit mir wol einvndachzig an der zale/ vnd mer mit einem weib genant.” He enumerates (original spelling retained): her pitterolff, der hopffgart, der Sigler, der alt Sighart, graf von Veldeneck, petter zwinger, friderich von Sünanwürck, her graff hermon von Marpürck, Sigher, Heinrich von Ofterdingen, remer von zwicka, sigmar der weise, der alt Stol, her wolferon, herczog ott von Oesterreich, der vngelart, der Dügenthafft Schreÿbere, der starcke popen, der regenpog, der Kanzelere, her frawenlob, erenpot, der raümslant, küncz gast, der Marner, herzog leüpolt, der meixner, der jorniger, der erentreich, Heinz Schüler, her Petter Volff, petterlein sax, wenczly, wennzlo, pfalcz von straspürck, Meister stern, rember, piberst, der polster, der Molcke, her klingesore, her künrat von Wirczpürck, prigita (evidently the “weib”), Walther von Vogelweid, Der jüng Stol, küncz prenberger, der münich von salczpürck, der prüder werenher, künglem von strasspürck, der Frauenpreis, küncz Harder, Heinrich mügleich, der Donheusser, elbel, der Zircker, der wendel von Gorcze, petter rötter, her Dietreich, der meister graff Wilhelem von lorcze, meister frawer, Heinrich von prünn, der rabensteiner, der Gengeier, Hügo von Meiningen, der Süchensin, der lib von gingen, der Hülczing, der Mügelein, her albrecht lesch, schons weckel, der lilgenschein, michel nachtigalle, fritcz kettner, hans müskaplut, der Meÿenschein, feucht wanger, Hans pogener, cüncz vogelsang, der attel, der Neidhart, cüncz Nachtigale.—Cf. under 28. Meistergesang, c. (this issue, p. 1010), n. 108, for list of Meistersänger by Hans Folz; also see Ellis, op. cit., on folios 426v, 475v.
41 Mayer, p. 73, no. 17. The word loica really means “Logik, Klugheit, Schlauheit.” It is also used in the sense of giving criticism.
42 The Mary-Verse in this MS (Berlin 414) has been discussed and treated more fully in a previously published dissertation; see n. 8.
43 WKL, ii, no. 546.
44 Schroeder, p. 213 (14 lines).
45 Mayer, p. 218, no. 54; Schroeder, p. 123.
46 Schroeder, p. 234 (one lied—1).
47 Schnorr v. Carolsfeld, F., Zur Geschichte des deutschen Meistergesangs (Berlin, 1872), p. 41, from MS. Dresden M 8a, fol. 60 f. Cf. Schroeder, p. 110, n. 194.
48 Schroeder, pp. 228-229 (entire Meisterlied printed).
49 Mayer, p. 278, no. 74.
50 Schroeder, pp. 141, 143, 232 (16 lines).
51 Ibid., p. 231 (3 lines).
52 Mayer, p. 65, no. 14; Schroeder, p. 66 (3 lines).
53 This is the second poem beginning on this folio—the preceding one was short and did not fill the page.
54 Cf. P. Runge, Die Sangesweisen der Colmarer Handschrift und die Liederhandschrift Donaueschingen (Leipzig, 1896), no. 7, pp. 22-23.
55 Mayer, p. 330, no. 87.
56 Schroeder, p. 231 (2 lines).
57 Cf. Runge, op. cit., p. 77, no. 26; Schroeder, pp. 263-264 (entire Meisterlied).
58 WKL, ii, no. 531.
59 Schroeder, p. 210 (3 lines).
60 WKL, ii, no. 1310.
61 Ibid., no. 1307.
62 Friedman, pp. 85-86 (32 lines).
63 Ibid., pp. 31, 86-88 (three lied—2, 3, 4); Schroeder, p. 80 (8 lines).
64 Ibid., p. 31 (3 lines).
65 Ibid., pp. 88-89 (15 lines).
66 Ibid., pp. 92-93 (24 lines).
67 Mayer, p. 282, no. 75, Part i; Schroeder, p. 65 (3 lines).
68 Ibid., p. 287, no. 75, Part ii; Schroeder, p. 66 (2 lines).
69 Ibid., p. 292, no. 75, Part iii.
70 Ibid., p. 163, no. 36.
71 Schroeder, p. 259 (entire Ml.).
72 Ibid., pp. 255-257 (entire Ml.).
73 Ibid., pp. 253-254 (26 lines).
74 Mayer, p. 302, no. 77.
75 Schroeder, pp. 132-133 (11 lines).
76 Ibid., p. 130 (12 lines).
77 Ibid., pp. 129, 193-194 (26 lines).
78 Mayer, p. 216, no. 53.
79 Ibid., p. 123, no. 31.
80 Schroeder, pp. 257-258 (entire Ml.).
81 Mayer, p. 315, no. 81; Schroeder, pp. 64-65 (14 lines).
82 Schroeder, pp. 67-68 (18 lines). Cf. also WKL, ii, no. 1302.
83 Ibid., p. 66 (8 lines).
84 Ibid., p. 87 (6 lines).
85 Ibid., p. 88 (4 lines).
86 Ibid., pp. 93-94 (20 lines)—see n. 157, p. 93, for other sources of poem.
87 Ibid., pp. 259-262 (entire Ml.).
88 Ibid., pp. 194-195 (two lied).
89 Ibid., pp. 204-205 (18 lines).
90 WKL, ii, no. 1407.
91 Schroeder, p. 204 (14 lines).
92 Friedman, pp. 30, 84, 93 (20 lines).
93 Schroeder, pp. 190-192 (entire Ml.).
94 Ibid., p. 87 (19 lines).
95 Mayer, p. 241, no. 63.
96 Ibid., p. 224, no. 56.
97 Schroeder, p. 111 (5 lines).
98 Mayer, p. 147, no. 34; Schroeder, p. 145 (5 lines).
99 Ibid., p. 152, no. 34.
100 Ibid., p. 143, no. 34; Schroeder, p. 144 (9 lines).
101 Ibid., p. 315, no. 82.
102 Ibid., p. 230, no. 58.
103 Schroeder, p. 213 (5 lines).
104 Ibid., p. 211 (5 lines).
105 Ibid., p. 150 (5 lines).
106 Ibid., pp. 221, 222 (16 lines).
107 Schroeder, p. 181 (5 lines). See also Schnorr v. Carolsfeld, from M 100, fol. 252 f., p. 43.
108 Mayer, p. 349, no. 94; Schnorr v. Carolsfeld, pp. 37-41. Hans Folz enumerates the following Meistersänger in his poem: Sigler, Sigmar, Pitrolff, Hoffgart, Peter Zwinger, Sighart, Grof von Seldneck v. Siebenburgen, Arnolt Betzler, Frawenlop, Kantzelere, Der Erenbot, Fridrich v. Sunenberg, Hertzog Lupolt, hertzog Ot, Regenbog ein schmite, Wolfram, Der alt Stol, Romar v. Zwetel, Reinhart Zol, Rumszlant, Der Marner, Kontz Gast, Eckhardus rein, Heintz Schuller, Der Meissner, Der Ungelert, Joriger, Wentzly, Wetzliszlo, von Erenfro, der Starke, Pop, Heinrich von Afterdingen, Pfaltzen von Strasburg, Peter Wolf, Baltzer, Peter Sach, der Mulck, der tugenthaft Schreiber, Clausz Stern, der Remsz, Clinger, conrat v. Wirtzburg, der jung Stol, Walter von Fogelweite, der Suchensein, Hugler, Raubensteiner, Danhausser, der Harder, Heinrich Muglin, der Elbel, der Zircker, Wendel von Gurtz, ein wircker der kunsten fein, Her Diedrich Grof, Wilhelm von Lortz, Peter Roter, Heinrich von Brun, Frauener, Hugo, der Meienschein, Albrecht Lesch, der Hultzing, Gilgenfein, der Lieb v. Gengen, Groff Herman von Marburg. Some of the above names have appeared in fol. 426v—cf. 21. LISTS, a. this issue, p. 1004, n. 40.
109 Ibid., p. 320, no. 83.
110 Ibid., p. 328, no. 86.
111 Ibid., p. 344, no. 92.
112 WKL, ii, p. 1137, no. 1405; Schroeder, p. 182 (4 lines).
113 Dreyer, pp. 365-366.
114 Schroeder, p. 67 (6 lines).
115 Mayer, p. 17, no. 2.
116 Ibid., p. 346, no. 93.
117 Equivoca signifies “zwei und mehrdeutige wort,” such as leben (= das Leben); leben (= zu leben). This was considered a Fehler in Meistergesang. See O. Plate, Die Kunstausdrücke der Meistersänger, “Strassburger Studien” (1888), pp. 212-213.
118 Mayer, p. 340, no. 91.
119 Friedman, pp. 69, 70 (11 lines).
120 Schroeder, p. 173 (10 lines).
121 Ibid., p. 142 (7 lines).
122 Ibid., p. 135 (12 lines).
123 Friedman, pp. 134, 135 (39 lines).
124 WKL, ii, p. 1140, no. 1408.
125 Ibid., p. 226, no. 364.
126 Ibid., p. 387, no. 535.
127 Ibid., p. 102, no. 187.
128 Friedman, pp. 89-90 (two lied—3, 4). See this author's dissertation for a more complete treatment and for additional material on this theme—cf. n. 6.
129 Ibid., pp. 59-60 (two lied—1, 2).
130 Mayer, p. 243, no. 64.
131 Schroeder, p. 152 (9 lines).
132 Ibid., pp. 264-265 (entire Ml.).
133 Friedman, pp. 73-75 (entire Ml.).
134 Ibid., p. 35 (3 lines); Schroeder, p. 93 (7 lines).
135 Schroeder, pp. 150, 165-166 (16 lines).
136 Friedman, pp. 95-99 (entire Ml.).
137 WKL, ii, p. 1141, no. 1410.
138 P. Merker u. W. Stammler, Reallexikon der dt. Literaturgeschichte, iv (Verlag Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, 1931), under “Meistergesang,” p. 62, col. 1: “Oft laufen sie (die Lieder) hinaus auf eine trockene Aufzählung aller Fehler, laster, die der Singer bei Strafe zu meiden hatte, und führen daher die Bezeichnung schulkunst.”
139 Stammler calls this “Lied” Schulkunst. Cf. Dreyer, Notenbeilagen, pp. 1-3.
140 Mentioned by poet as Schulkunst.
141 Mayer, p. 68, no. 15.
142 Ibid., p. 326, no. 85. Mayer notes p. 320 that this poem is the solution to the Rätsel in his no. 83 (Berlin 414, 292v; see above under Meistergesang, n. 109).
143 Schroeder, p. 109 (5 lines).
144 Mayer, p. 332, no. 88.
145 Ibid., p. 201, no. 52; also WKL, ii, p. 830, no. 1048.
146 WKL, ii, p. 1141, no. 1409; Goedeke I, no. 9, p. 26.
147 Schroeder, p. 262 (entire Ml.); MS. Berlin 414 has “gabüel” for the name of the land.
148 Ibid., pp. 197-199 (17 lines).
149 Ibid., pp. 223, 224 (15 lines).
150 Mayer, p. 228, no. 57; Schroeder, pp. 251, 252 (10 lines).
151 Friedman, pp. 51, 52 (28 lines).
152 Mayer, p. 157, no. 35; Schroeder, p. 136 (2 lines).
153 Friedman, p. 57 (22 lines).
154 Mayer, p. 119, no. 29.
155 Ibid., p. 59, no. 13.
156 Friedman, pp. 45-46 (46 lines).
157 Ibid., pp. 65-66 (42 lines).
158 Ibid., pp. 53-56 (entire Ml.).
159 Mayer, p. 70, no. 16.
160 Friedman, p. 66 (8 lines).
161 Mayer, p. 269, no. 72; WKL, ii, p. 835, no. 1050.
162 WKL, ii, p. 1080, no. 1313.
163 Friedman, p. 51 (21 lines).
164 Ibid., pp. 48-19 (two lied—2, 3).
165 Cf. Runge, no. 28, pp. 78-79.