426 facsimile leaves measuring 25 x 35,5 cm., loose as issued with 137 full-page plates of miniatures printed in colors and gold. Number 204 of a limited edition of 750 copies. Issued in 12 parts, each in original board box with title label. Each box with a stapled booklet (10-30 pp.) with an introduction to the volume by Ingo F. Walther. Published from 1974-1979. Most board boxes with light wear, contents in very fine condition with the leaves still in transparent paper. Without the commentary volume that was published in 1981. Sumptuous facsimile edition of this magnificent medieval songbook. It is the single most comprehensive source of Middle High German Minnesang poetry, written and illuminated in Zurich in the early 14th century, for the Manesse family, at that time the most wealthy family of Zurich. The splendid facsimile leaves are printed in four to nine colours, the illustrations heightened with gold.