Codex Manesse

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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. Its core was formed around 1300 in Zurich.
The large collection of Middle High German lyrics compiled by the patrician Rüdiger Manesse of Zurich and his son is considered to be the main source of the "Codex Manesse".