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The codex was produced in [[Zürich]] ([[Switzerland]]), for the [[Manesse family]].<ref>Koschorreck and Werner 1981 discern no fewer than eleven scribes, some working simultaneously, in the production.</ref>
 
The manuscript is "the most beautifully illumined German language manuscript in centuries";<ref>Ingeborg Glier, reviewing Koschorreck and Werner 1981 in ''Speculum'' '''59'''.1 (January 1984), p. 169. The only other contemporary illuminated song book is the [[Weingarten Manuscript]], once thought to have been a model for the ''Codex Manesse''.</ref> its 137 [[miniature (illuminated manuscript)|miniatures]] are a series of "portraits" depicting each poet.
 
It is currently housed in the [[Heidelberg University Library]].<ref>{{cite web
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