Monday 15 January 2018

Willehalm von Orlens (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 323)

Willehalm swears to stave Amelie until she hears him, f. 87v.


Colloquial name(s): Willehalm von Orlens
Official name(s): Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Codices Palatini germanici 323

Date: 'workshop of 1418', c. 1420 (source)
Origin: Strasboug (Straßburg), France (historically Germany) (source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital and via HeidICON

This manuscript consists of a copy of Rudolf von Ems' romance Wilhelm von Orlens (source and source). This copy is illustrated with several half- and full-page pen-and-ink drawings around which the text is written.

Basic descriptions of the illustrations are provided (in German) by the Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg with both facsimiles.

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