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The prose legendry "Lives of the Saints" produced by the Dominican
monastery in Nuremberg around 1400 was the most widely disseminated
vernacular legendry of the European Middle Ages. It has been handed
down in just under 200 manuscripts and 33 Upper German and 8 Low
German printed editions and was disseminated all over
German-speaking Europe and in the Netherlands and Scandinavia. The
work is a major exception among German legendries in that it does
not derive from Latin sources but almost exclusively from German
verse and prose legends ("Passional," "MArterbuch," Hartmann von
Aues "Gregorius," Ebernand von Erfurts "Heinrich und Kunigunde,"
Reinbot von Durnes "Georg" etc.). Its status was that of the major
vernacular hagiographic source (for the Mastersingers, Jakob Mennel
etc.) and its popularity made it a target for one of Luthers
lampoons in 1535. This historical edition is based on the oldest
and most reliable manuscript source, the Summer Part Manuscript,
Bodleian Library, Oxford, Ms. Laud. 443.
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