‚Biterolf und Dietleib‘

• Author(s): Mario Klarer,
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• Pages: 745
• ISBN_10: 311071907X
  ISBN_13: 9783110719079
  
• Language: de
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / German , Literary Criticism / Medieval , Foreign Language Study / German , Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical ,

Description:... In this eleven-volume complete transcription of the ‘Ambraser Heldenbuch,’ all texts appear in the original Early High German for the first time. A transcription that is faithful to individual characters used by the scribe is synoptically juxtaposed with the manuscript image. A second, diplomatic transcription is arranged by verses and numbered according to established editions. The lavishly illustrated manuscript of almost 250 parchment folios, commissioned by Emperor Maximilian I at the beginning of the sixteenth century, is one of the most important sources of German narrative literature of the Middle Ages. Volume 9 contains the epic ‘Biterolf and Dietleib,’ which has survived solely in the ‘Ambraser Heldenbuch.’