(unidentified; probably mid 13th century, of Obernburg near Celje) 344v: Bruder Wernher (unidentified; mid 13th century) 349r: Der Marner (probably marinaere "the mariner"; unidentified, but mentioned by Meister Rumslant below) 355r: Süßkind, der Jude von Trimberg (unidentified, 2nd half of the 13th century) 358r: (isolated anonymous poem) 359r: Von Buwenburg (Baumburg near Hundersingen, probably Ulrich von Buwenburg, fl. 1260) 361r: Heinrich von Dettingen (well documented during 1236–1300; of a family of ministeriales of Reichenau abbey) 362r: Rudolf der Schreiber (unidentified) 364r: Meister Gottfried von Straßburg (died c. 1210) 371r: Meister Johannes Hadlaub (of Zürich, fl. 1300, possibly the redactor of the codex) 381r: Regenbogen ("Rainbow", an unidentified Alemannic poet, depicted as a smith) 383r: Meister Konrad von Würzburg (died 1287) 394r: Kunz von Rosenheim (unidentified, perhaps not a poet but the owner of a songbook used as a source) 395r: Rubin von Rüdeger (unidentified) 396r: Der Kol von Nüssen (unidentified, perhaps of Neunzen near Zwettl; the poems date to the 1230s or 1240s) 397v: Der Dürner (unidentified, perhaps of Mengen, Swabia) 399r: Meister Heinrich Frauenlob (Heinrich von Meißen, born c. 1250) 407r: Meister Friedrich von Sonnenburg (unidentified; poems date to the 3rd quarter of the 13th century) 410r: Meister Sigeher (fl. 1250–1260s; perhaps identical with a Sicherius iuculator active in Metz, possibly a Tyrolian) 412r: Der wilde Alexander (an unidentified Alemannic poet of the late 13th century) 413v: Meister Rumslant (fl. late 13th century, of Northern Germany) 415v: Spervogel ("Sparrow"; recorded under this nickname are poems by two separate authors, with floruits in the mid and the late 12th century) 418r: Boppe (of Bonndorf, died 1320; from 1276–1305 serving as reeve of the count of Nellenburg) 422r: Der Litschauer (unidentified) 423v: Der Kanzler ("The Chancellor", 2nd half of the 13th century, possibly Alemannic) Manuscript history The compilation of the codex was patronized by the Manesse family of Zürich, presumably by Rüdiger II Manesse (born before 1252, died after 1304). The house of Manesse declined in the late 14th century, selling their castle in 1393. The fate of the codex during the 15th century is unknown, but by the 1590s it had passed into possession of baron Johann Philipp of Hohensax (two of whose forebears are portrayed in the codex, on foll. 48v and 59v). In 1604, Melchior Goldast published excerpts of its didactic texts. After 1657 it was in the French royal library, from which it passed to the Bibliothèque