The "Codex Manesse", also known as the "Great Heidelberg Book of Songs" (Cod. Pal. germ. 848), was created between around 1300 and around 1340 in Zurich and is the most comprehensive collection of ballads and epigrammatic poetry in Middle High German language. Walther Von Der Vogwlweide (1170-1230). by Rudiger Manesse and his son Johannes. University of Heidelberg. Library. Germany

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