GRIMM, Jacob.

Ueber den altdeutschen Meistergesang ...

Göttingen, Heinrich Dieterich, 1811. 8vo, pp. [4], 194, [2]; title-vignette depicting a clover leaf; some light spotting, but a very good copy, uncut in contemporary German paper wrappers, spine lettered in MS ink, Lassberg paper shelf-label. First edition of Jacob Grimm’s first book, the first fruits of his acquaintance with old German literature. In it, he ‘showed that Minnesang and Meistersang were really one form of poetry, of which they merely represented different stages of development, and also announced his important discovery of the invariable division of the Lied into three strophic parts’ (Ency. Brit.). Grimm was one of the first scholars of early German literature. These initial studies proved essential reading for Wagner in his preparations for Die Meistersinger.Provenance: Baron Joseph Maria Christoph von Lassberg (1770–1855) was a friend of the Grimms. Like them, he devoted himself to the study of German literature, and in the pursuit of these studies he collected a superb library. His outstanding treasure was MS. C of the Nibelungenlied; this he published, with a number of other German medieval poems, in Liedersaal, 4 vols., 1820–25.Goedeke I, 308; Wilpert/Gühring 1.

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