Comprises: (1) Photostatic facsimiles of manuscripts A and B of Meier Helmbrecht, 5 vols; (2) Manuscript drafts of the edited text and notes, 5 vols; (3) Manuscript of the final revision of the work, finished 2 December 1950, 1 vol.; (4) Notes on the text and metre of the poem, dated 23 November 1950, 1 vol.; (5) Interleaved copy of his edition, dated 1942, heavily annotated, 1 vol.; (6) Bound notebook containing manuscript "Studies on Meier Helmbrecht" by Gough, 1 vol.; (7) Bound notebook containing offprints of Gough's articles on "Texts A and B of ... Meier Helmbrecht", published in the Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, [ca. 1926-1932], 1 vol.; (8) Bound notebook containing "Miscellaneous papers", by Gough on various subjects relating to German literature, and including a few letters and newspaper cuttings relating to him, 1 vol.; (9) Correspondence by Professor A. Gillies of the German Department relating to Gough's donation of most of this material to the Department in May 1956
Material chiefly relating to C.E. Gough's edition of, and further work on, Wernher der Gartenaere's poem Meier Helmbrecht
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 MS 1704
- Dates of Creation
- ca 1926-1956
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- German English
- Physical Description
- 16 vols in 1 box, manuscript, typescript, and printed material. There is marbling on the covers of some of the volumes
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Charles Edward Gough (1875-1957) was Professor of German at the University of Leeds, 1924-1939
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
The gift of the German Department through Dr Richard Byrn in August 2002
Note
In German and English