Heidelberg Universitätsbibliothek Cod. Pal. germ. 101: Difference between revisions

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Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Ger33
Location	Heidelberg Universitätsbibliothek
Siglum/Shelfmark	Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 101
Page/Folio range	29v-39r

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Aventewr von Diocleciano
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum)	Aventewr von Diocleciano
└ Language Group within Version
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Gerdes (1992), Gerdes (2004), Zimmermann (2003)

Languages
Language of text	German (High and Low German)
Regional or specific Language of text	Bairisch, Ostschwäbisch, Schwäbisch
Source for regional or specific Language of text	Zimmerman (2003)

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/cpg101
Modern Editions

Note
There are woodcuts as decoration for the print text, which follows the Gesta Romanorum, but no illustrations for the manuscript. However, blank spaces suggest that initials were intended, or, on fol. 29v, a slightly bigger space might have even been left blank for a more elaborate initial (illustration). There are also the names of the masters in the margins to mark the beginning of their story (see for example fol. 31v and 32v). - number of lines: 36-38

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Burgau, Germany
Date of Manuscript Production	1470
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Zimmermann (2003), Handschriftencensus 4885: https://www.handschriftencensus.de/4885

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	109 (147, including the print bound together with the manuscript)
Height	284
Width	208
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	1r-74v: 'Gesta Romanorum' (Redaction B) (H2), including: 29v-39r: Aventewr von Diocleciano 58v-61r: 'Gydo und Thyrus' 75r-109r: Niklas von Wyle: translation of Aeneas Silvius, 'De duobus amantibus' Prints: 110r-137r: Lucianus Samosatensis, 'Asinus Aureus', translated by Niklas von Wyle (Augsburg, Ludwig Hohenwang, 1477) 138r-147r: Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron IV.1, translated by Niklas von Wyle (Ulm: Johann Zainer, 1476)

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Gerdes (1981), Gerdes (1992), Gerdes (2004), Zimmermann (2003), Hommers (1968)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

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