page_title: Codex Manesse
hierarchical_section_title: Codex Manesse
caption_attribution_description: English: Codex Manesse, UB Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 848, fol. 371r, bottom panel shows Meister Johannes Hadlaub handing a Liederhandschrift to Elisabeth of Wetzikon
context_page_description: The Codex Manesse, Manesse Codex, or Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift is a Liederhandschrift, 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, for 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.
context_section_description: The Codex Manesse, Manesse Codex, or Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift is a Liederhandschrift (book of songs/poetry), 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, for 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.
caption: Folio 371r, Johannes Hadlaub
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