The Munich codex germanicus 6353 ends with the following words:Das gesilbent par / ist durch Hannsen Foltznvonn Wormbs Barbierern zu Nurmberggemacht vnnd gedichtet Jacoben BernhaubtSchwennter benant / jme jn grosser gunstvnnd liebe zugestellt / doch vmb sein darbe-zalunng vnnd ist jm 1496 Jarnngesunngen durch angezaigtennSchwentern auff der singeschulvmb ein klainoth / Es ist jmvnbekanten thon vndsaget von den sibenfryen kunst-en jtlich-erIr erfinder / Planeth / farb / methall (fol. Zr)To a casual reader these lines might seem to belong to the preceding poem in the MS., but a closer look proves this to be impossible. Indeed a seven-staved par such as described in the above lines is not to be found anywhere within the entire codex. In vain does one look in Mayer's edition of the MS. for some explanation. There the impression is added as if the lines were taken from the bottom of folio 168v, whereas actually they begin at the top of folio Zr and cover two-thirds of it, Apparently Mayer attached no significance to this fact, nor to the fact that blank folios follow the lines cited above (possibly because there are other blank folios scattered throughout the MS.), nor to the fact that the Schwennter referred to in the above “conclusion” is also mentioned in the Preface to the codex. He does, however, call attention to the very artistic handwriting of folios F, O, and Z, the folios which contain the prefatory material and the lines under consideration. Since the Preface states that Folz composed, wrote down, and then left behind him the poems in the MS. many years ago and that Jacob Bernhaubt Schwennter, named the Elder, likewise many years ago, spent much of his time singing and reading these same poems, and since the hand that made those statements also set down the final lines in Munich 6353, we may deduce that they were added after the death of Hans Folz. Even this small item has not been noted before, except for A. v. Keller's remark in his brief description of the Munich MS. that the closing lines, like the Preface, were von späterer hand. Rufold Henß, one of the investigators of Folz's style, appears to be the only scholar who saw something odd in the close of the Munich MS. Finding the words perplexing, he thought that they probably did not belong in that particular place and that they had been copied there by mistake. To date, therefore, no solution has been offered for this enigmatic ending.
Elderly people at village level in Botswana
