Description:
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Altsignatur: Cim 345
Kurzaufnahme einer Handschrift Extent:
107 Bl. - Pergament Alternative Title:
Cim. 345 Abstract:
Englische Version: Wolfram von Eschenbach composed his medieval
German epic poem Parzival, which consists of more than 24,000
lines, in the first decade of the 13th century. It tells the story
of the juvenile fool Parzival who, having grown up in the seclusion
of the forest, is ignorant of the world and causes much grief as he
ventures out to become a knight. He arrives at the Castle of the
Grail, but fails to pose the question to the sick King Fisher
Anfortas about the source of his suffering—a question that would
release Anfortas and make Parzival the new grail king. After a long
odyssey and a religious catharsis, Parzival is able to return to
Arthur's court and is marked as the new grail king. The tale,
according to the manuscript tradition, enjoyed great popularity
throughout the Middle Ages. Only a few of the manuscripts are
illuminated. This manuscript from the Bavarian State Library,
written in a Gothic cursive script, is one of the few illuminated
manuscripts of Parzival that are known to exist. Unfortunately,
only one of the illuminations in the codex, which were to be
inserted in spaces that the writer left blank, was executed. The
style of painting suggests that it most likely originated in Lower
Bavaria, perhaps in Landshut. The quality and richness of this very
illumination gives a hint of what a splendid work of art this would
have been had it been completed. Subjects:
Deutschland
942.014
831
400 AD - 600 AD
Germany
