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Reference Number MS FRAG/GERM/1
TitleVon Eschenbach, "Willehalm" [Fragment]
Date13th century
DescriptionFragment of a copy of Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Willehalm, parchment.The text is a poem in rhyming couplets.
Extent1 item
AdminHistoryWolfram Von Eschenbach (c1170-c1220) was an impoverished Bavarian knight and poet, who apparently served a succession of Franconian lords. His works include the epic "Parzival".
CustodialHistoryFormerly in the possession of Theodor Bukounig of Enns. Used as the cover of a 17th-century folio-sized book.
AcquisitionPurchased by University College London from Haslinger in 1921.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAidsDorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935).
PublnNoteThe fragment is described and edited in T Gartner's "Handschriftliches zu Wolframs Willehalm", ZfdA, 48. Dorothy K Coveney, "A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London" (London, 1935), includes a facsimile of part of the manuscript.
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