Editing Codex Manesse (section)

==Manuscript history==
The compilation of 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 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 de France|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, German Emperor|William I]] and [[Otto von Bismarck]].

The first critical editions of 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 the manuscript, called the ''Troßsche Fragment'' (''Tross Fragment''), which were held in the [[Berlin State Library]] but went missing in 1945,<ref>''Des Minnesangs Frühling'', ed. H. Moser and H. Tervooren, Stuttgart 1977, Vol II, pp. 47f.</ref> are now in the [[Jagiellonian Library]] in [[Kraków]] (Berol. mgq 1146).<ref>{{cite web |title=Handschriftenbeschreibung 11787 |url=https://handschriftencensus.de/11787 |website=Handschriftencensus |access-date=29 October 2023}}</ref>