Limburg Chronicle, or Festi Limpurgenses, the name of a German

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 chronicle

Chronicle

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 written most probably by Tileman Elhen von Wolfhagen after 1402. It is a source for the history of the Rhineland

Rhineland

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 between 1336 and 1398, but is perhaps more valuable for the information about German manners and customs, and the old German folksongs and stories which it contains. It has also a certain philological interest.

The chronicle was first published by J. F. Faust in 1617, and has been edited by A. Wyss for the Monumenta Germaniae historica

Monumenta Germaniae Historica

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. Deutsche Chroniken, Band iv. (Hanover, 1883). See A. Wyss, Die Limburger Chronik untersucht (Marburg, 1875).