Hamburg Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Cod. germ. 1

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Manuscript
Reference Number Ger31
Location Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
Siglum/Shelfmark Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibl., Cod. germ. 1
Page/Folio range 109r-211r
Standardised title of narrative Sieben weise Meister
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum) H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
Language Group within Version German Version H
Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version Versfassung / Verse Version
Further scholarly subgroup (1) Verse Redaction B: Anonymous Verse Version
Further scholarly subgroup (2) Text H
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) Prosafassung / Prose Version
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition Gerdes (1992)Gerdes (2004)
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production 1454
Source of date Manuscript Production Handschiftencensus 4859: https://handschriftencensus.de/4859
Material Paper
Language of Manuscript German (High and Low German)
Regional or specific Language of Manuscript Schwäbisch
Source for regional or specific Language of Manuscript Heiles (2018)Handschriftencensus 4859: https://handschriftencensus.de/4859
Prose or Verse Verse
Other texts in the Manuscript The codex is in two parts. Part one largely contains recipes and practical texts; part two is the 'Sieben Weise Meisters'.

Part I: 1r-57r: collection of medical recipes, including:

  - 3v-4r: 'Macer' (German, Vulgate) [Prose preface] 
  - 4ra-4va, 6ra-11vb: Herbal compilation from 'Macer' 

57v-61r: Volmar: 'Das Steinbuch' (H) 62r-63v: 'Lunar' 64r: Prognostications for the new year 65ra-69va: Recipes (for cooking) 69va-71ra: Gottfried von Franken: 'Pelzbuch' 71ra-75ra: Rezept(e) für Farben und Tinte 75va-98vb: 'Lucidarius' (Ha1), up to II.27; from ff. 89ra: Honorius Augustodunensis: 'Elucidarium' (German)

Part II: 109r-211r: 'Sieben weise Meister' (anonyme Versbearbeitung einer dt. Prosafassung der 'Historia septem sapientum') (H)

Script style/form
Total pages/folios in Manuscript 214
Height 290
Width 190
Illustrations No
Digitisation
Modern Editions
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Paschke (1891)Gerdes (1992)Heiles (2018)

Note

This manuscript has been partially digitised - but only Part I, not Part II, which contains the Sieben weise Meister text. Access to digital copies of Part I may be found here (ff. 1r-10r, 26v-63r, 64r-76r) and here (ff. 65r-101r, 212r).