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Women and Jews in the Sachsenspiegel Picture-Books, Turnout: Brepols, 2018

Handy Reference for the four extant Sachsenspiegel Picture-Books

All four books are conventionally named for the locations of the libraries where they are now preserved: in chronological order they are H, O, D, and W. We refer to some pictures in D and W that are virtually identical as D/W. The date ranges given here are those traditionally assigned on the basis of heraldry, with those argued in Chapter 2 from stylistic affinities with other works, in parentheses.

Text citations in English are normally from Maria Dobozy, The Saxon Mirror: A Sachsenspiegel of the Fourteenth Century (Philiadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999); a few are from Charles Nelson’s unpublished translations, as noted. Dobozy used the published normalized transcription of W, and for simplicity we cite only that text version (as W Textband), unless there is significant variation in the picture-book we are referring to.

Readers will surely want to consult more of the pictures in these manuscripts than can be illustrated here, and fortunately complete print facsimiles are available, as well as images on the web:

H: Heidelberg Universitätsbibliothek, Cod.Pal.Germ.164. 30x23.5 cm.

c. 1295-1304. Traditionally localized to the Herz mountains, patronage unknown.

At the Papal see in Rome 1623-1816.

Walter Koschorreck, and Wilfried Werner. Der Sachsenspiegel. Die Heidelberger Bilderhandschrift cod.pal.germ. 164. (Frankfurt-am-Main: Insel Verlag, 1989.

Gernot Kocher, and Dietlinde Munzel-Everling. Sachsenspiegel : die Heidelberger Bilderhandschrift Cod. Pal. germ. 164 : vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat der Handschrift aus der Universitätsbibliothek. 3 vols, Codices selecti, 115-115* (Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 2009-2010).

Dietlinde Munzel-Everling. 'Der Sachsenspiegel: die Heidelberger Bilderhandschrift; Faksimile, Transkription, Übersetzung, Bildbeschreibung [Interaktive CD-ROM]' ed. by Maria Effinger, Thomas Wolf and Karin Zimmermann. (Heidelberg: Universitätsbibliothek, 2009).

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, ‘Cod. Pal. germ. 164, Heidelberger Sachsensdpiegel,‘ in Elektronischer Medien: http://diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg164/ last accessed 7/25/2016.

O: Oldenburg, Landesbibliothek Ms Cim I 410. 32.8x22.8 cm.

1336. Made in Rastede Abbey for John III, Duke of Oldenburg (colophon), it did not stray far from his descendants until 1991, when it was sold to the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung Hannover.

Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand, ed., Der Oldenburger Sachsenspiegel: Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe Im Originalformat Des Codex Picturatus Oldenburgensis Cim I 410 Der Landesbibliothek Oldenburg, vol. 1 (Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1995). vol. 2, Textband (1995); Vol. 3 Kommentarband (1996), pp. 171-263, gives a detailed description of the pictures on each folio.

Landsbibliothek Oldenburg digital: http://digital.lb-oldenburg.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:gbv:45:1-3571 (last accessed 7/25/2016).

D: Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek--Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek Ms. M32. 33/33.5x27.7/26 cm.

1347 - 1363 (c.1350)

Probably made in Meissen for Margrave Friedrich III

Karl von Amira. Die Dresdener Bilderhandschrift des Sachsenspiegels I.1: Facsimile der Handschrift. Edited by Rudolf Kötzschke, Sächsische Kommission für Geschichte, Sächsische Landesbibliothek and Savigny Stiftung (Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1902); vol. 2, his commentary on the pictures, came out in 1926, all were reprinted 1968-69.

Lück, Heiner ed., [Eike von Repgow] Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat des Dresdner Sachsenspiegels : Mscr. Dresd. M 32 der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek--Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, Codices selecti, 107, 4vols (Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 2002-2011): vol. 1 Faksimile; vol. 2 Interimskommentar; vol. 3. Textband; vol. 4 Aufsätze und Untersuchungen.

The Dresden manuscript was damaged in storage during and after WWII. The Amira facsimile is from black and white or coloured photographs of the undamaged Ms.; the Lück facsimile is of the restored Ms.

Online at http://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/6439/1/ (last accessed 7/27/2016).

W: Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Ms. Cod. Guelf. 3.1 Aug. 2o. 35x27cm.

Between 1348 and 1365 (c. 1355-60)

A very close copy of Dresden, probably made for Heinrich Burgrave of Leisnig near Meissen.

Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand ed. Eike Von Repgow: Sachsenspiegel. Die Wolfenbütteler Bilderhandschrift Cod. Guelf. 3.1 Aug. 2. vol. 1, Faksimile; vol. 2, Textband; vol. 3, Kommentarband (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1993).

Herzog-August Bibliothek, ‘Wolfenbütteler Sachsenspiegel,’ In Digitalisierung historischen Kulturgutes: Sachsenspiegel_on line: (c. 2000), http://www.sachsenspiegel-online.de/ (last accessed 7/27/2016)

A synoptic table of all the pictures in the four manuscripts is extremely useful to find corresponding illustrations: Lieberwirth, R. 'Synopse. Überblick über die in den Bilderhandschriften illustrierten Textstellen des Sachsenspiegels'. In Die Wolfenbütteler Bilderhandschrift des Sachsenspiegels: Aufsätze und Untersuchungen. Kommentarband zur Faksimile-Ausgabe, ed. by Schmidt-Wiegand, R., 333-355. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1993.

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