Beinecke MS 487               Southern Germany, s. XV^^in
Heinrich von Muenchen, Weltchronik (two fragments)

We thank N. Palmer and G. Kornrumpf for their assistance with these
fragments.

Fragment 1 (recto, col. a + verso, col. b):
//Den nicht geleich an Reychait was/ Des fuersten haus der ain hiez/
Wann ze Ring all darumb stiez/...vnd den palas/ Vnd all di Reichait di da
was/ [D]as must ir alls gevallen wol//

Fragment 2 (recto, col. b + verso, col. a):
//Als helyas het gen Im geret/ ... Dir h[eu]t vil drat nement sein//

     For a discussion of Heinrich's Weltchronik see G. Leidinger,
Muenchner Dichter des 14. Jahrhunderts (Munich, 1930) and P. Gichtel, Die
Weltchronik Heinrichs von Muenchen in der Runkelsteiner Handschrift des Heinz
Sentlinger (Munich, 1937), and the recent article of N. H. Ott, "Heinrich von
Muenchen, Verfasserlexikon 2. Aufl., Bd. 3 (1981) 827-37.  The text is as
yet unpublished.  Inner margin continues through gutter, with slits for binding,
to include ca. three letters of the text of the other half of the bifolium.
According to G. Kornrumpf, who has compared the text of Beinecke MS 487 with
Vienna, Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. ser. n. 9470, the two fragments
belong to two separate quires from the same dismembered codex described by H. Menhardt,
"Zur Weltchronik-Literatur," Beitraege zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache
und Literatur 61 (1937) pp. 438-48.

     Parchment, portions of two leaves, each cut in half vertically. The
reconstructed folio would measure ca. 360 x 280 (250 x 170) mm. 2
columns of 54 to 56 lines.  Frame-ruled in brown ink with double vertical,
single horizontal bounding lines, all full length and full across.  Written in
gothic cursive
script.  Plain initials alternate in red and blue; headings and initials
in red.  Guide-letters for plain initials.  Rubbed and stained on verso with
some loss of text.

Written in Southern Germany at the beginning of the 15th century according to
K. Schneider.  17th-century inscription in inner margin "Stuefft Buch pro anno 1657"
corresponds to a similar inscription on a fragment from the same dismembered codex
described by Menhardt (op. cit., p. 441). Early modern provenance otherwise
unknown.  Acquired by H. P. Kraus from the private collection of
Bernhard Bischoff. Purchased from Kraus in 1965 by Edwin J. Beinecke for
the Beinecke Library.

Barbara A. Shailor