Vienna Song Book

One of the most important sources of the German-language music history of the 15th century: 100 polyphonic songs of famous composers like Hermann von Salzburg or Heinrich von Mügeln

Created by the father of the famous Simon Bening for a royal patron: one of the most beautiful songbooks of the 16th century with 56 artful miniatures for Joan the Mad, Queen of Spain

Love poetry by 31 medieval poets revolving around Walther von der Vogelweide: one of the most important German sources of Minnesang, adorned with 25 author portraits.

Musical insights into Germany's high medieval court culture: the oldest and smallest of only three surviving Minnesang manuscripts, now preserved in Heidelberg

Poems by Walther von der Vogelweide and Reinmar von Hagenau alongside the oldest surviving German cookbook: the second volume of a medieval housebook as one of the most important examples of Middle High German poetry

An impressive compilation of German folk songs from the 15th and 16th centuries: 71 individual prints with charming woodcuts, united into a fascinating miscellany and testimony to popular Renaissance poetry