abstract:The Codex Manesse, Manesse Codex, or Große Heidelberger LiederhandschriftHeidelberg, University of Heidelberg Library, Codex Palatinus Germanicus 848 is a Liederhandschrift (medieval songbook), the single most comprehensive source of Middle High German Minnesang poetry, written and illustrated between ca. 1304 when the main part was completed, and ca.