Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Ger 74
This bibliography was compiled by Johanna Rodda, William Stoneman, and Julia Schlozman.
Please be advised that some links may require Harvard ID and PIN.
HOLLIS Record
The Houghton Library Report of Accessions for the Year 1955-56. Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, 1956. MS cited on p. 8. HOLLIS
A brief description without call number in a report of annual accessions.
Eckehard Simon. “Eine neu aufgefundene Sammelhandschrift mit Rosenplüt-Dichtungen aus dem 15. Jahrhundert.” Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum und deutsche Literatur 102 (1973): 115-133. HOLLIS
Available online. Link
Contains a detailed physical description of the manuscript, as well as comprehensive transcriptions and identifications of its contents.
Eckehard Simon. “An unpublished poem on Charles the Bold and the Burgundian Wars dated 1475.” Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 97 (1975): 68-87. HOLLIS
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Contains a transcription of the text of the poem, as well as detailed discussions of the historical events discussed in the poem and the dialect of the poet.
Eckehard Simon. “Das schwäbische Weihnachtsspiel. Ein neu entdecktes Weihnachtsspiel aus der Zeit 1417-1431.” Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 94 (1975): 30-50. HOLLIS
A transcription and extended discussion of the Schwäbisches Weihnachtsspiel (Swabian Christmas Play) at ff. 22r-26v. Simon discusses script, decoration, dialect, the place of the Swabian Christmas play in the tradition of German Christmas plays, and the Flight into Egypt scene.
Eckehard Simon. “Three unpublished mariological songs from fifteenth-century Germany.” Modern Language Notes 90 (1975): 643-655. HOLLIS
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Contains a transcription of the songs and discussion of their imagery as well as commentary on the dialect of the scribe and the origin of the songs themselves. Simon argues that these songs are the earliest songs in German on the Seven Joys of the Virgin.
Eckehard Simon. “Priamel, Short verse poems, and proverbs from the Houghton Codex MS Ger 74 (ca. 1460/70): Variants and unpublished texts.” Michigan Germanic Studies 2 (1976): 21-35. HOLLIS
Contains transcriptions and editions of numerous proverbs and didactic poems that appear in the MS.
Eckehard Simon. “Four Unpublished Meisterlieder on the Legend of Adam’s Death and the Holy Rood.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 75: 1,2 (January-April 1976): 209-27. MS cited pp. 214-218. HOLLIS
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Contains transcriptions and editions of four songs on the legend of Adam’s death and the wood from which Christ’s cross was fashioned. The first of the songs, Adam gedacht an seine Sünd, appears in the manuscript.
Eckehard Simon. “The Home Town of the ‘Schwäbische Weihnachtsspiel’ (ca. 1420) and Its Original Setting.” Euphorion 73 (1979): 304-320. HOLLIS
An extended historical and philological discussion of the Schwabisches Weihnachtsspiel, focusing on the role of the city of Constance and the council held there that elected Pope Martin V.
Frieder Schanze. “Meisterliche Liedkunst zwischen Heinrich von Mügeln und Hans Sachs.” Bd. II: Verzeichnisse (MTU 83), München 1984, p. 160-161. HOLLIS
Physical description of the manuscript and its script as well as a short discussion of its contents.
Jörn Reichel. Der Spruchdichter Hans Rosenplüt: Literatur und Leben im spätmittelalterlichen Nürnberg. Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag 1985, p. 224f. (Nr. 3). HOLLIS
Mentioned in a list of surviving manuscripts of Rosenplüt’s work, with a discussion of the other contents of the compendium.
Rolf Bergmann. Katalog der deutschsprachigen geistlichen Spiele und Marienklagen des Mittelalters. München: Kommission für Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 1986, p. 84f. (Nr. 30). HOLLIS
This catalog of German liturgical dramas provides thorough description of the dating, dialect, provenance, physical properties, contents, and possible use of the manuscript.
Hansjürgen Linke. “Versuch über deutsche Handschriften mittelalterlicher Spiele.” Deutsche Handschriften 1100-1400: Oxford Kolloquium 1985. Ed. Volker Honemann and Nigel F. Palmer. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1988, 527-589. MS cited pp. 541, 549. Fig 23 reproducing f. 22r at p. 573; fig. 36 at p. 585 reproducing r. 24v. HOLLIS
Pen-drawing on f. 22r mentioned at p. 541; brief note on omitted ‘n’ at p. 549.
Burghart Wachinger. Der Mönch von Salzburg. Zur Überlieferung geistlicher Lieder im späten Mittelalter. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1989. p. 43. HOLLIS
Listed as preserving the song “Got in drivaldikait ainvalt.” Captions in the manuscript transcribed.
Hans Rosenplüt. Reimpaarsprüche und Lieder. Ed. Jörn Reichel. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1990. p. IX-X. HOLLIS
Mentioned in a list of surviving manuscripts of the Reimpaarsprüche, with a description of the contents of the Reimpaarsprüche in this manuscript.
Hella Frühmorgen-Voss with Norbert H. Ott, Ulrike Bodemann and Gisela Fischer-Heetfeld. Katalog der deutschsprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters, vol. 1, part 4. München: C.H. Beck, 1991, 277-279. MS appears as No. 9.1.4 in the catalog. HOLLIS
Detailed physical description of the manuscript and its contents. Also includes a discussion of miniatures and pen drawings appearing in the MS.
Eckehard Simon. ‘Schwäbisches Weihnachtsspiel.’ Die Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon, ed. Wolfgang Stammler and Karl Langosch, vol. 8 (1992): cols. 911-913 and vol. 11 (2004): col. 1395. MS mentioned in vol. 8, col. 911. HOLLIS
The manuscript is mentioned as the only surviving manuscript copy of the Schwäbisches Weihnachtsspiel (Swabian Christmas Play), to which Simon’s article is devoted. Additional literature on the Schwäbisches Weihnachtsspiel can be found in vol. 11, col. 1395 of the Verfasserlexikon.
Repertorium der Sangsprüche und Meisterlieder des 12. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Ed. Horst Brunner and Burghart Wachinger with help from Eva Klesatschke et al. Vol. 1: Einleitung, Überlieferung. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1994, p. 109. HOLLIS
Brief description of the manuscript's contents, with limited bibliography.
Marburger Repertorium der Freidank-Überlieferung (Link).
Contains a description of the manuscript and bibliography.
Handschriftencensus: Eine Bestandsaufnahme der handschriftlichen Überlieferung deutschsprachiger Texte des Mittelalters. (website) Accessed 23 November 2009.
Listed in a census of medieval German manuscripts. Found under “Gesamtverzeichnis Handschriften, Cambridge, Mass.” Internet Link
