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Rudolf von Neuenburg.svg|20r. Rudolf II<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Neuenburg</span>
Rudolf von Neuenburg.svg|20r. Rudolf II<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Neuenburg</span>
Toggenburger Zurich.svg|22v. Kraft III<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Toggenburg</span>
Toggenburger Ancient.svg|22v. Kraft III<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Toggenburg</span>
von Kirchberg.svg|24r. Conrad II<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Kirchberg</span>
von Kirchberg.svg|24r. Conrad II<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Kirchberg</span>
Leiningen.svg|26r. Frederick II<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Leiningen</span>
Leiningen.svg|26r. Frederick II<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Leiningen</span>

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The "Codex Manesse", also known as the "Great Heidelberg Book of Songs", 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.
The manuscript contains almost 6,000 verses from 140 poets, the poets are arranged in order of rank. Emperor Henry VI , son of Frederick I Barbarossa,
comes first followed by kings, dukes, margraves, counts, barons, ministerialis and lastly commoners..