Dear Sophie,
Try the biography of St Elizabeth by Montalembert (but this may have been
your source?), which is full of all kinds of citations and information, and
Analecta hymnica medii aevi, which includes the texts of many Latin offices
and hymns to St Elizabeth. Your Middle German text might be a translation.
Sincerely,
Barbara Haggh-Huglo
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:17:17 +0100 (BST) Sophie Oosterwijk
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> Dear listmembers,
>
> I temporarily re-emerge from e-mail limbo to ask if anyone can help
> me with the Middle-German extract below about St Elizabeth of
> Thuringia (Hungary), which I found unreferenced in a book from the
> early 1900s:
>
> Si hiz ir balde machen
> Nach fruntlichen sachen
> Von silber lodec wize
> Mit druwelichen flize
> Deme Kinde ein zuberlin,
> So ez wehes Kunde sin,
> Da man iz inne mohte
> Baden wan iz dohte.
> Si hiz ouch balde bigen
> Von silber eine wigen
> In wunderlicher gunste
> Nach meisterlicher kunste,
> Da man daz Kint in legete,
> So iz die amme degete
> Unde mit der spune neme war.
> (etc.)
>
> If anyone could point me to the source, it would save me a lot of
> trouble and I should be extremely grateful.
>
> Sophie Oosterwijk
> Dept of the History of Art
> University of Leicester
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> P.S. Although George told me it's OK, it still feels terribly
> impolite to me to barge in out of limbo with questions like this (for
> I shall have another one soon). My apologies!
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