Unknown Prague manuscript with texts by Conrad of Megenberg 'Buch der Natur' and Gottfried of Franconia 'Pelzbuch' (Prague, Monastery of Our Lady of the Snows, Ve 2) Eine unbekannte Prager Handschrift mit Konrads von Megenberg 'Buch der Natur' und Gottfrieds von Franken 'Pelzbuch' (Prag, Kloster zu Maria Schnee, Ve 2)

The report on the finding describes the hitherto unknown Codex Ve 2 of the Prague Monastery of Our Lady of the Snows, which contains two medieval German texts of scholarly prose - 'Buch der Natur' by Conrad of Megenberg (complete text) and 'Pelzbuch' by Gottfried of Franconia (a selection). The same composition is shared by four known codexes from various German libraries. A detailed analysis has revealed that the Prague Codex is closest to a manuscript from the University Library of Heidelberg, signature Cpg 286, from the year 1442. It can be assumed that the Prague Codex (referred to as Pr2) and the Heidelberg Codex were copied from the same template, although the quality of the text in the Heidelberg manuscript is higher. The Prague manuscript was written around the middle of the 15th century and originates, like the Heidelberg manuscript, from the south-west of the Upper German language region, having features of the Swabian dialect.