!!!Carmina Burana

Carmina Burana: Collection of 318 mostly anonymous poems in Latin and 
German; written around 1225-1230 in the areas of Tirol, Styria, 
Carinthia (probably at the court of the Bishop of Seckau). Fully 
preserved in the Codex Buranus, a gospel book containing neumes and 
miniatures; it was discovered 1803, when the monastery of 
Benediktbeuern was secularized, and handed over to the Bavarian State 
Library. Includes a wide range of songs and poems, mostly of secular 
content (moral and satirical poetry, spring and love songs, drinking 
and gamblers´ songs) as well as six religious plays; Carmina 
Burana represents the largest medieval collection of poetry. Some of 
the poems were set to music by C. Orff (premiere 1937).

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Editions: A. Hilka and O. Schulmann, Carmina Burana, 
2 vols., 1930; B. K. Vollmann, Carmina Burana, Texte 
und Uebersetzungen (texts and translations), 1987.

!Literature
Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters (lex.)


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