Shields and Escutcheons in the Manesse Codex

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This table contains shields and escutcheons with animate charges, including:

21 devices featuring mammals or parts of mammals,
16 devices featuring birds,
4 devices featuring other animals or parts of them,
16 devices featuring flowers, and
2 devices featuring other plants.

Above each device appears the folio number and the modern German version of the heading for the page on which it appears. Clicking on any number should take you to the Heidelberg University Library page for that folio, where you can see the device in its original context.

At least partial blazons appear below most devices. They are there to make it easier for anyone looking for a specific charge or field division to find it. Many of them are very rough, and some include standard-English descriptions of elements I was unsure how to blazon (enclosed in brackets) or are simply missing parts.

Table 1: Animate Charges

König Wenzel von Böhmen
(10r)

Gules, a lion queue fourchy argent crowned or.
Herr Walther von Klingen
(52r)

Sable billety or, a lion argent crowned or.

Note that the billets were left off the smaller escutcheon.
Herr Meinloh von Sevelingen
(120v)

Sable, three lion's heads couped affronty argent crowned or.
Herr Goeli
(262v)

Gules, a lion checky argent and sable crowned or.

Markgraf Heinrich von Meißen
(14v)

Or, a lion sable.
Herr Ulrich von Gutenburg
(73r)

Or, a lion sable, overall a fess gules.
Herr Hesso von Reinach
(113v)

Or, a lion gules headed azure.
Herr Konrad, der Schenk von Landeck
(205r)

Argent, in pale two lions passant gules crowned or.

Herzog Johann von Brabant
(18r)

Quarterly argent, a lion gules, and sable, a lion or.
König Tyro von Schotten
(8r)

Or, a palmer proper.
Herr Pfeffel
(302r)

Azure, a man's head cropped at the shoulders issuant from base proper vested argent capped or.
Meister Heinrich Frauenlob
(399r)

Vert, a woman's head cropped at the shoulders, crowned or.

Graf Kraft von Toggenburg
(22v)

Or, a dog statant sable collared gules.
Hartmann von Starkenberg
(256v)

Or, a talbot's head couped sable eared argent.
Herr Dietmar der Setzer
(321v)

Or, a wolf's head couped vert.
Der Düring
(229v)

Gules, a wolf's head couped or.

Meister Johannes Hadlaub
(371r)

Or, a fox rampant argent gorged gules.
Herr Heinrich von Frauenberg
(61v)

Azure, a gryphon or.
  Herr Hawart
(313r)

Or, a bear's head couped sable.
Herr Dietmar von Ast
(64r)

Azure, a unicorn rampant argent.

Von Singenberg, Truchseß zu St. Gallen
(151r)

Azure, a demi-stag courant sable.
Kaiser Heinrich
(6r)

Or, an eagle sable.
Kristan von Luppin, eine Thüring
(226v)

Or, an eagle sable.
Herzog Heinrich von Breslau
(11v)

Or, an eagle sable.

Graf Wernher von Homberg
(43v)

Or, in pale two eagles sable.
  König Wenzel von Böhmen
(10r)

Azure, an eagle checky argent and gules.
  Markgraf Otto von Brandenburg
(13r)

Argent, an eagle gules.
Graf Friedrich von Leiningen
(26r)

Azure, three eagles argent.

Der Herzog von Anhalt
(17r)

Per pale gules, an eagle dimidiated by the line of division argent, and barry Or and sable.
Herr Reinmar von Zweter
(323r)

Gules, an eagle with its wings terminating in eagle's heads proper.
Graf Otto von Botenlauben
(27r)

Per fess or and checky gules and argent, a two-headed demi-eagle issuant from the line of division sable.
Herr Hartmann von Aue
(184v)

Azure, three eagle's heads argent.

Von Stamheim
(261r)

Or, a hawk proper.
Von Buwenburg
(359r)

Or, [some kind of bird] sable.
Herr Hiltbold von Schwangau
(146r)

Gules, a swan close statant to sinister argent.
Albrecht Marschall von Rapperswil
(192v)

Argent, a cock sable.

Herr Walther von der Vogelweide
(124r)

Gules, a songbird close regardant argent within a cage or.
Wachsmut von Künzingen
(160v)

Azure (?), two fish sable.
Der Düring
(229v)

Azure, a fish embowed or.
Herr Engelhardt von Adelnburg
(181v)

Or, in pale two lobster claws fesswise gules.

or maybe

Or, two cloven hooves fesswise gules.

Regenbogen
(381r)

Argent, in bend sinister a hammer proper, a snake glissant knowed vert and a pair of tongs sable, all bendwise. ???

I've also put this device in the "inanimate charges" table, for the tools.
Albrecht Marschall von Rapperswil
(192v)

Sable, a cinquefoil argent slipped and leaved vert.
Der Burggraf von Rietenburg
(119v)

Or, on a bend gules three cinquefoils argent.
Der von Johansdorf
(179v)

Per fess gules and pily in point sable and azure, in chief two cinquefoils argent.

Herr Brunwart von Augheim
(258v)

Or, on a pale sable three cinquefoils argent.
  Herr Friedrich der Knecht
(316v)

Per saltire or and azure, in pale two cinquefoils gules and in fess two cinquefoils sable.
Herr Geltar
(320v)

Per fess sable, two roses gules, and
azure, two pallets compony or and gules.
Der Marner
(349r)

Per fess or and azure, a cinquefoil gules and a bar argent.

Meister Friedrich von Sonnenburg
(407r)

Or, two piles inverted azure the points ending in cinquefoils gules.
Von Wissenlo
(299r)

Or, on a fess azure two cinquefoils purpure.
Der Burggraf von Lienz
(115r)

Azure, a cinquefoil or slipped and leaved vert.
Herr Heinrich Hetzbold von Weißensee
(228r)

Bendy argent and azure semy of cinquefoils or.

Rost, Kirchherr zu Sarnen
(285r)

Argent, a gridiron sable within a bordure gules semy of cinquefoils or.

I've also put this device in the "inanimate charges" table, for its primary charge.
Der tugendhafte Schreiber
(305r)

Sable, three columbines azure petalled gules.
Bruder Wernher
(344v)

Or, a columbine vert petalled azure.
Boppe
(418r)

Argent, two piles inverted gules the points ending in columbines gules petalled azure.

Der Düring
(229v)

Argent semy of trefoils gules.
Der Taler
(303r)

Argent, five bulrushes sable slipped vert issuant from a mount azure.
Herr Günther von dem Vorste
(314v)

Or, a linden branch bearing three leaves proper.

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