Wolkenstein A contains a total of 108 poems, both Christian devotional and secular, mostly composed by Oswald von Wolkenstein, who may have supervised the manuscript's creation. It was largely completed by 1425 in Tyrol, with additions dating as late as around 1440. Musical notation is offered for most of the poems, thirty-three of them polyphonic. A portrait of Oswald preserved inside the front cover, in which the author holds sheet music in his right hand, is generally accepted as an early "true" portrait that aimed to mimic the likeness of the person.
We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Wolkenstein A": Oswald von Wolkenstein: Handschrift A facsimile edition, published by Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt (ADEVA), 1977
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