Die Klag vom Wolf am Hage.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Schmieher, Peter, active 15th century.

Contributor:

Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard, 1787-1854, former owner.

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

Language:

German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)

Subjects (All):

German poetry--Middle High German, 1050-1500.

German poetry.

German poetry--Middle High German.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Poetry.

Manuscripts, German (Middle High) -- 15th century.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Georg Kloss (Frankfurt am Main; bookplate, inside upper cover)

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillips, no. 11049.

Sold at auction at Brandes (Wolfgang Brandes, Braunschweig, Germany; cat. 28), 4-6 November 1957, lot 3222, to Helmuth Domizlaff for the University of Pennsylvania.

Physical Description:

4 leaves : paper ; 286 x 200 (241 x 155) mm bound to 286 x 202 mm

Place of Publication:

[Germany], [14--]

Summary:

Fragment of four folios containing three poems of which the second can definitely be assigned to Schmieher (Zacour-Hirsch).

Contents:

1. f.1r: Poem [incomplete at beginning?] inc.: Der jung sprach ich mu[beta] in sehen/ wie mir darvmb mug geschen/

2. f.1r-2r: Die Klag vom Wolf am Hage.

3. f.2r-4v: Poem [incomplete at end?] inc.: Ich waisz kain besser lust/ wann esen trinken vnd minen/.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title of second work (f. 1r).

Foliation: Paper, 4; 170-174, contemporary foliation in ink, lower left recto; [1-4], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 2 columns of 36-38 lines.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Decoration: Rubricated initials, capitals, and explicits throughout.

Binding: 19th-century boards.

Origin: Written in Germany in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Edges of leaves repaired partially obscuring text at top.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), pp. 81-82 (Ms. German 14).

Complete shorter version for item 2, see C. Wendeler, Studien über Hans Rosenplüt, Archiv für die Geschichte deutscher Sprache, I[1874], 97-133, 385-436, esp. 388-408.

Publications about:

Clark, R. C. "'Die clag von wolff eim hage' -- A 15th century manuscript." Modern Language Notes 37.4 (October 1967), 421-427. Two reprints are in the library's files.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 872.

Contains:

Der jung sprach ich mu[beta] in sehen/ wie mir darvmb mug geschen.

Ich waisz kain besser lust/ wann esen trinken vnd minen.

OCLC:

155919921