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18-477: The Codex Manesse (also Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift or Pariser Handschrift ) is a Liederhandschrift (manuscript containing songs), the single most comprehensive source of Middle High German Minnesang poetry, written and illustrated between c.  1304 when the main part was completed, and c.  1340 with the addenda. The codex was produced in Zürich ( Switzerland ), for

36-593: A staff of 283 employees in fourteen different library departments. Jagiellonian Library is one of the largest and most famous libraries in Poland; over its history it has received many donations and inherited many private collections. Its collection contains 1,503,178 volumes of monographs , 557,199 volumes of periodicals , 104,012 early printed books, 3,586 incunabula , 24,258 manuscripts , 12,819 maps , 35,105 music scores , and 77,336 microforms . Among its music scores are many of Mozart 's original autographs. “It

54-641: The Codex Manesse appeared in the early nineteenth century. The codex is frequently referred to by Minnesang scholars and in editions simply by the abbreviation C , introduced by Karl Lachmann, who used A and B for the two main earlier Minnesang codices (the Kleine Heidelberger Liederhandschrift and the Weingartner Liederhandschrift respectively). Two leaves of a 15th-century copy of

72-657: The Coronation Mass , Bastien und Bastienne , Die Entführung aus dem Serail (acts I and III), Le nozze di Figaro (acts III and IV), Così fan tutte (act I) and two numbers from act I of La clemenza di Tito . The beginning of the Jagiellonian Library is traditionally considered the same as that of the entire university (then known as Cracow Academy ) - in the year 1364; however instead of having one central library it had several smaller branches at buildings of various departments (the largest collection

90-592: The Manesse family . The manuscript is "the most beautifully illumined German manuscript in centuries"; its 137 miniatures are a series of "portraits" depicting each poet. It is currently housed in the Heidelberg University Library . In 2023, Codex Manesse was admitted to UNESCO's Memory of the World . The Codex Manesse is an anthology of the works of a total of about 135 minnesingers of

108-475: The 19th century that the university and therefore library was dubbed, “Jagiellonian” after the Jagiellonian dynasty . Since the 1990s, the library's collection is increasingly digital . The current building of the library located at Al. Mickiewicza 22 was constructed in the years 1931-1939 and expanded twice, in the years 1961-1963 and 1995–2001. In the 1990s, a number of priceless books were stolen from

126-671: The Songs , is the German term for a manuscript containing lieder (songs) of the German Middle Ages , dating from the late 12th to the 15th centuries. Of particular importance are the Minnesang manuscripts of the 13th to 14th centuries. List of important Liederhandschriften : Jagiellonian Library The deputy directors of Administration and Construction, 19th and 20th Century Materials, and Special Collections oversee

144-411: The biography of the person depicted, but some designs just draw their motif from the poet's name (thus, Dietmar is shown riding a mule, since his name can be interpreted as meaning people's horse ), while others draw on imagery from their lyrics ( Walther von der Vogelweide is shown in a thoughtful pose which exactly matches the description of himself in one of his most famous songs). The compilation of

162-402: The codex was patronized by the Manesse family of Zürich , presumably by Rüdiger II Manesse (born before 1252, died after 1304). The house of Manesse declined in the late 14th century, selling their castle in 1393. The fate of the codex during the 15th century is unknown, but by the 1590s it had passed into possession of baron Johann Philipp of Hohensax (two of whose forebears are portrayed in

180-666: The codex, on foll. 48v and 59v). In 1604, Melchior Goldast published excerpts of its didactic texts. After 1657 it was in the French royal library, from which it passed to the Bibliothèque Nationale , where the manuscript was studied by Jacob Grimm in 1815. In 1888, after long bargaining, it was sold to the Bibliotheca Palatina of Heidelberg , following a public subscription headed by William I and Otto von Bismarck . The first critical editions of

198-538: The library continued to grow thanks to the support of such people as Jerzy Samuel Bandtkie , Karol Józef Teofil Estreicher and Karol Estreicher . Its collections were made public in 1812. Since 1932, it has had the right to receive a copy of any book issued by Polish publishers within Poland. In 1940, the library finally obtained a new building of its own. During the Second World War , library workers cooperated with underground universities . It wasn't until

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216-493: The manuscript had been dead for more than a century at the time of its compilations, while others were contemporaries, the latest even late additions of poems written during the early 14th century. In the portraits, some of the nobles are shown in full armour in their heraldic colors and devices (therefore with their faces hidden), often shown as taking part in a joust , or sometimes in single combat with sword and shield, and sometimes in actual battle. Some images are motivated by

234-889: The manuscript, called the Troßsche Fragment ( Tross Fragment ), which were held in the Berlin State Library but went missing in 1945, are now in the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków (Berol. mgq 1146). The possibility that the compiler was the Minnesinger Johannes Hadlaub provided the subject of a poetic novella, Hadlaub (in the Züricher Novellen , 1878), by Gottfried Keller . Liederhandschrift Liederhandschrift , German for Manuscript of

252-569: The mid 12th to early 14th century. For each poet, a portrait is shown, followed by the text of their works. The entries are ordered approximately by the social status of the poets, starting with the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI , Kings Conradin and Wenceslaus II , down through dukes, counts and knights, to the commoners. Most of the poems are Minnesang , but there are also other genres, including fables and Spruchdichtung (didactic poems). The oldest poets represented in

270-469: The other four between 1515 and 1518. This helped not only rebuild the library, but purchase more acquisitions as well. After 1775, during the reforms of Komisja Edukacji Narodowej , which established the first Ministry of Education in the world, various small libraries of the university were formally centralized into one public collection in Collegium Maius. During the partitions of Poland ,

288-527: Was growing at a rapid pace without the funds for more space until in 1492, a major part of the Collegium Maius (the academy's library) was destroyed in a fire. This prompted a need to rebuild the library, but the academy did not want to finance it. Instead, the poor faculty members decided to fund the project themselves. A contract was struck with a building crew, but financial issues still presented an obstacle, until chests of money were excavated during construction. A total of five chests were found, one in 1494, and

306-559: Was in Collegium Maius , where works related to theology and liberal arts were kept). “In 1399 a generous endowment to the Academy made by King Wladislaw Jagiello and his consort Jadwiga made possible the reorganization of the Academy into a centralized institution of learning with a library.” (p 95) Queen Jadwiga championed the library and bequeathed much of her wealth to help the university flourish in 1400. The library

324-938: Was not until 1869 when the donation of Leon Rogalski from Warsaw became the foundation of a separate section of musical notes.” (para 1) Notable rare manuscripts and books owned by the library include: The library possess one of the most prominent collections of music autographs by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , which includes among others piano concertos K. 246 , K. 271 , K. 413 , K. 414 , K. 415 , K. 449 , K. 451 , K. 453 , Rondo for Piano and Orchestra, K 382 , Concerto for 3 Pianos, K. 242 , Concerto for 2 Pianos, K. 365 , Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299 , horn concertos K. 417 and 412 , piano sonatas K. 279 , 280 , 281 , 282 , 283 , 284 and 330 , piano trios K. 254 , 542 , and 564 , string quartets K. 80 , 169, 171 and 173 , String Quintet, K. 516 , Flute Quartet K. 285 , Divertimento K. 287 , symphonies 16 , 38 and 39 , Exsultate, jubilate , Vesperae solennes de confessore ,

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