Lohengrin

FOR EASE OF REFERENCE, the complete manuscripts (A, B, M) and fragments (Cf) of Lohengrin are listed below, together with notes on their key features, selected reading, and links to official online reproductions where available. This overview is intended as an aid for English-speaking readers rather than as a substitute for further study. Links are provided to the relevant entries in the online Marburger Repertorium/Handschriftencensus, which can be consulted for further information and additional references, as should the descriptions of A, B, and M in Hallmann, Studien, 47–50.

A = Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cpg 364

Reproduction: http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg364.—De - scription: http://www.handschriftencensus.de/2678.—Content: Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival (fol. 1r–111r) and Lohengrin (fol. 113r–151r).—Fourteenth century, first (Miller, on www.handschriften census.de) or second quarter (Schneider, according to Miller and Zimmermann, 241); Becker's proposal of a workshop in the Ansbach/ Amberg/Bamberg area appears repeatedly in the literature.— Demonstrates the link to Wolfram, who becomes the narrator figure for the story of Parzival's son Lohengrin, and is associated with two other manuscripts of works by or attributed to Wolfram.—Literature: Miller and Zimmermann, Cod. Pal. germ. 304–495, 241–43, 280–81, 319–21; Becker, Handschriften und Frühdrucke, 91–92.

B = Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cpg 345

Reproduction: http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg345.—De - scription: http://www.handschriftencensus.de/4920.—Content: Lohengrin (fol. 1r–181v) and Friedrich von Schwaben (fol. 182r–379v).—ca.1470, probably from Stuttgart (Miller, in Miller and Zimmermann, 179).— Transmission of Lohengrin with Friedrich von Schwaben reflects the shared theme of origins and genealogy; this is one of the manuscripts commissioned by Margaret of Savoy and associated with the Henfflin workshop.— Illustrated.—Literature: Lähnemann, “Print to Manuscript”; Miller and Zimmermann, Cod. Pal. germ. 304–495, 179–81.

M = Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Cgm 4871

Description: http://www.handschriftencensus.de/6351.—Content: Lohengrin (pp. 1–134), texts by Oswald von Wolkenstein (p. 135) and Peter Suchenwirt (pp. 137–46).—1461, Kammer am Attersee (see Schneider, 390–91).—An example of how literary texts were collected in the late Middle Ages; Lohengrin may have been included because of a perceived heraldic significance in the dragon slain by Freidrich von Telramunt.— Literature: Mück and Ganser, “Kl. 131,” 119–36; K. Schneider, Cgm 4001–5247, 390–94.