The papers collected in Part I are a result of the research project conducted by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities on the History of transmission and typology of the medieval German vernacular song . They deal among other things with the layering, the origins and the editorial concepts of the great manuscripts of medieval song (Minnesang etc.), and of the compilation of author corpora (Walther von der Vogelweide, Frauenlob), with problems of ascribing authorship, with illuminating peripheral transmission channels, with the genre-specific use of tones, with multiple...