"Do gie ein Guntheres man / Vur die chuneginne stan / Unn vraget si der maere, / Ob ir daz liep ware" I'm gonna have a lawsuit. Fragment from the epilogue epic of the Nibelung Song. Middle High German manuscript on parchment. 1 Bl., 2 pages. 3 columns. 52 lines. Font space 28 x 19-23 cm. Format approx. 36,5 x 23,2 cm. With 5 (4 red, 1 blue) 2-line initials and about 128 1 line initials in red and blue. Very good gothic textualis. ==References====External links== ==References== Extensive fragment of the "clage", the medieval epilogue to the Nibelungenlied, which announces the transfer of Siegfried's death and the demise of the Burgundian court to the families in Worms, Passau and Bechelarn. The "clage" comprises a total of over 4300 verses, which in most manuscripts of the Nibelungenlied follows directly the main text of the aventures. Since the "Klage" (K) is available in various medium-high German versions (versions *A, *B and *C), there is no Urtext due to which these versions can be attributed. In addition, a short version in only 944 verses (*J), "This short form is 'superior' to the other versions from an aesthetic point of view, so that it was even considered to see in it the original version, which was later expanded editorially in the other version [...]", writes Peter Brommer in his article "An unknown fragment of the 'crime of nibelies'." and notes in the further course: "The fragment written by a trained hand passes verses 609-920 to the short version *J, which corresponds quite exactly to one third of the same [...]. The fragment dates back to the end of the 13th century. Jh.s. [and] no known 'Klage'-Hs. can be attributed." Bronner quotes the mediävisist Joachim Bumke: "With his statement, Bumke is therefore right that the abstract 'has not come about by negligence and thoughtlessness, but that there was a planned editor at work here [...]' and concludes "Ultimately, this passage will also be considered as a criterion for the fact that the short version is probably based on the long version. [...]." See Peter Brommer, An unknown fragment of the "litigation suit" in Koblenz. In: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 135 (2006), pp. 324-335. Manuscriptsus, manuscript description No. 1088. The fragment comes from the Hs. K of the "Klage"; from the same manuscript also the fragments Berlin, SBB-PK, Ms. germ. fol. 587, 814 and 923 No. 13 and Dülmen, Duke of Croyese Administration, House Archives No. 54. ==References====External links== K, which besides the Nibelungenlied and Nibelungen lament also contained the "childhood of Jesus", see also Gisela Kornrumpf, "hero book - or collective manuscript? For Codex discissus K of the Nibelungenliedes, Scrinium Berolinense. Tilo Brandis on the 65th. ==References====External links== About Provenance: The paper comes from the nobility library of the Barons of Salis-Soglio at Gmunden Castle, from where it was transferred to the Koblenz State Archives, together with documents that the family generously left there as a temporary deposit. However, the paper triggered by the archivists was never part of the contractually fixed deposit - and was therefore refunded to the family. Without consultation and against their express will, the sheet - in the course of other objects of the deposit - was unlawfully integrated and stamped into the Koblenz archive stock as "inventory 701 Nr. 759 subnumber 060". It is still kept there under the signature, even if the entry of the online catalogue indicates the property of the Salis-Soglio family "Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz Bestand 701 Nr 759 subno. 060. Nibelungenläge [Property of the archive of the Barons of Salis-Soglio, Depositum, cf. Best. 49]' (see: //apertus.rlp.de/index.php?PLINK=1&ID=c36bc12f-3c29-44b8-b41b-18823577661e; Call 23.07.26). On behalf of the family, the stamp could be removed and the sheet offered at the auction (see the accompanying documents). – Released cover macular with corresponding traces of usage, glue residues, tannings and text solutions as well as marginal cracks and eleven tiny to small holes in the text (cautious loss of letters) and a larger cartilage hole at the bottom of the box. Undescribed edge. On both sides in the middle several stronger text rubbings by former assembly, pressure and humidity. A little tanned, brownish-spotted, rubbed, but generally readable, extensive fragment and impressive testimony to the most famous poem of the German High Middle Ages.