Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Ger 80
This bibliography was compiled by Julia Schlozman.
Please be advised that some links may require Harvard ID and PIN.
HOLLIS Record
Karl August Hahn (Hg.). Lanzelet. Eine Erzählung von Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, Frankfurt a.M. 1845 (Nachdruck mit einem Nachwort und einer Bibliographie von Frederick Norman, Berlin 1965), p. XIX. HOLLIS
Brief discussion of the poor condition of the Houghton fragment, as well as a lengthier discussion of textual similarities among surviving Lanzelet manuscripts.
Carl von Kraus. “Mittelhochdeutsche Bruchstücke.” Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum und deutsche Litteratur 55 (1917): 296-301. MS cited p. 296. HOLLIS Available online (Link)
The Houghton fragment is mentioned, with description of its provenance, in a brief introduction to a transcription of the “Mariae Himmelfahrt” by Konrads von Heimsfurt.
John L. Campion. “Zu Ulrich von Zatzikhoven.” Anzeiger für deutsches Alterthum und deutsche Litteratur 44 (1925), p. 149-50.” HOLLIS
The then-owner of the fragment offered to share silver bromide prints to anyone interested in examining them.
Hermann Menhardt. “Das neue Klagenfurter Lanzelet-Bruchstück GK.” Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum und deutsche Litteratur 66 (1929): 257-267. HOLLIS Available online (Link)
This publication established that the Houghton fragment, referred to G, and another fragment known as GK, now in Klagenfurt, were originally part of one manuscript.
W.H. Bond and C.U. Faye. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962. MS cited p. 233.
A very brief description of the manuscript, with a note on provenance. Available online (Link). HOLLIS
Hans Gröchenig, Günther Hödl und Erhard Pascher. Katalog der Ausstellung. Handschriftenfragmente von 500-1500. St. Paul im Lavanttal: Archiv St. Paul, 1977, 173-176 (Nr. 35). HOLLIS
Contains a reproduction and transcription of one of the leaves, as well as a note on the fragments’ text and script.
Hans-Jochen Schiewer. “Ein ris ich dar vmbe abe brach/Von sinem wunder bovme. Beobachtungen zur Überlieferung des nachklassischen Artusromans im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert.” Deutsche Handschriften 1100-1400. Oxforder Kolloquium 1985. Ed. Volker Honemann und Nigel F. Palmer. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1988, 222-278. MS cited p. 246f. (Nr. 21). HOLLIS
Mentioned in a list of fragments of Lanzelet manuscripts. Contents, lines 4422-4542 and 5270-5387, also mentioned.
Rosemary Combridge. “Der ‘Lanzelet’ Ulrichs von Zatzikhoven im Kreuzfeuer der Editionsprinzipien.” Methoden und Probleme der Edition mittelalterlicher deutscher Texte. Bamberger Fachtagung 26.-29. Juni 1991: Plenumsreferate. Ed. Rolf Bergmann und Kurt Gärtner. Tübingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 1993, 40-49. MS cited pp. 41, 43, 46-47. HOLLIS
Mentioned in a list of fragments of Lanzelet, as well as in a discussion of the linguistic tendencies of the surviving texts.
“Die Wiener Handschrift des Lantzelet Ulrichs von Zatzikhoven.” Ed. Georg Deutscher. Philologica Germanica 24: 2002, p. 10. HOLLIS
Mentioned in a list of fragments of Lanzelet manuscripts.
Ulrich von Zatzikhoven. Lanzelet. Ed. Florian Kragl. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2006, vol. 2, pp. 848-850, 893-895. HOLLIS
Detailed description of the provenance, condition, script and physical properties of the fragment at 848-50. Notes on consonants, vowels, diction, and orthography at 893-5.
Ulrich von Zatzikhoven. Lanzelet: Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Ed. Florian Kragl. Studienausgabe. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009, p. 531.
Handschriftencensus: Eine Bestandsaufnahme der handschriftlichen Überlieferung deutschsprachiger Texte des Mittelalters. (website) Accessed 24 November 2009.
Listed in a census of medieval German manuscripts. Found under “Gesamtverzeichnis Handschriften, Cambridge, Mass.” Internet Link
Nigel F. Palmer. “The Houghton Library Lanzelet Fragment,” Harvard Library Bulletin 21.2 (Piecing Together the Picture: Fragments of German and Netherlandish Manuscripts in Houghton Library edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger) (2010), 53-72. MS cited throughout. HOLLIS
Palmer identifies this pair of leaves from Ulrich von Zatzikhoven’s Lanzelet as related to two leaves, now Klagenfurt, Universitätsbibliothek Perg. Hs. 47. Palmer provides an overview of the manuscript tradition of the poem and the codicological context for an understanding of the individual manuscript witnesses.
