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Hohenberg.svg|42r. Albert II<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Hohenberg and Heigerloch</span>
Hohenberg.svg|42r. Albert II<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Hohenberg and Heigerloch</span>
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Homberg.svg|43v. Werner<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Homberg</span>
Homberg.svg|43v. Werner<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Homberg</span>
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Reinach Manesse.svg|113v. Hesso von Reinach
Reinach Manesse.svg|113v. Hesso von Reinach

Revision as of 14:32, 11 August 2017

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..