Ulrich Füetrers Buch der Abenteuer der Ritter von der Tafelrunde - BSB Cgm 1

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

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The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek's largest German parchment manuscript contains a history of the Grail and Arthurian Empire in about 12,000 verses, which the court painter and poet Ulrich Füetrer from Landshut created for Duke Albrecht IV between 1473 and 1481. The epic cycle is an editing compilation of 13 courtly novels from the 13th century; the heterogeneous sources are bound together by the same stanzaic form (from the "Jüngere Titurel" by Albrecht von Scharfenberg). Starting with Konrad von Würzburg's "Trojan War", the stories of Merlin and Wolfram's "Parzival", Heinrich von dem Türlin's "Crône" and the "Lohengrin" are integrated, among others. The second part tells of the adventures that seven knights of the Round Table have to endure. The third part describes the history of Lancelot up to the fall of the Arthurian Empire. The work is characterised by narrative pleasure and an inclination towards allegory (Mrs Aventiure, Mrs Minne). The Munich manuscript's endpaper shows the Bavarian-Austrian alliance coat of arms of the Duke and his wife; the red and blue initials of the 10th to 29th verse are a dedication to the Duke, which is also repeated at the beginning of the Lancelot part (leaf 150va). Datum: 2016

Author

Peter Czoik

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