Heidelberg University Library
University library guarding rare medieval manuscripts, with a celebrated songbook facsimile on show.
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This guide to Heidelberg University Library follows the Codex Manesse, a medieval songbook made in Zurich that left the city in the seventeenth century and spent centuries in Paris. It turns on Karl Ignaz Trübner, a Heidelberg-born bookseller in Strasbourg, and the unusual deal he set out to build in the eighteen eighties. Along the way you'll meet Elizabeth Stuart, an English lord's collection and Chancellor Bismarck. Best heard in the first-floor foyer, beside the display case.
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