Cod. Pal. germ. 848
Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift

Codex Manesse, early 14th century

229v Der Düring

Source: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

Crossbowmen, one in scale armour, and other infantry, attack a castle.

The Manesse Codex is a book copied and illustrated between 1305 and 1340 in Zürich. It contains love songs in Middle High German by important poets, several of whom were famous rulers. The compilation of the codex was patronized by the Manesse family of Zürich, presumably by Rüdiger II Manesse.