1898.] . SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. 227 



lists of fishes, stones and spices. But the deviations from the His- 

 toria we will consider elsewhere (verses 2913-15 io6 relate to inci- 

 dents which are not found in the Latin story). 



At the close of the poem Henry introduces into his rhyme his 

 name and address — 



" Wie ditz puocli si erdaht 

 unde in deutsche rime praht 

 daz sage ich eu dast pillich 

 ez geschach ze Wienne in Osterrich 

 waz ich sage daz ist war 

 ez sint me dau tousent jar 

 daz ditz puoch zem ersten wart geschriben 

 in Latin : sit ez ist pliben 

 daz ez nie von keinem man 

 solhe rime geschriben gewan} 

 wer ditz puoch gedihtet hat 

 daz sage ich eu des ist niht rat, 

 ein schoeneu frouwe in drumbe pat : 

 Meister Heinrich von der Neuvvenstat 

 ein arzet von den puochen. 

 wil in ieman suochen 

 er ist gesezzen an dem Graben 

 got muez in in siner huote haben " 



{StrobL, p. 124, lines 20,844.-20,861). 



In Von Gotes Zuokunft {\me 467), the poet again alludes to his 

 Austrian nativity. The latin book of the Apollonius he says he ob- 

 tained from Nicolas of Stadlaw : 



"der saelic pfarraere 

 her Niclas von Stadlouwe." 



Nicolas lived, as Ferdinand Wolf has demonstrated ( Wiener 

 Jahrbilcher der L. ii, 56, 257), in the first quarter of the fourteenth 

 century. He appears in the records of the years 129 7-1 3 18, together 

 with Bernhard von Krannest, of whom there are records from 1304 

 until 1332, and who also is referred to in the poem (line 13,696). 

 In 1 31 2 Heinrich and his wife Alheit were given the Freisinger- 

 hofe, located upon the Graben in Vienna. It was therefore after he 

 was *' gesezzen an dem Graben," or after 1312, that he wrote 

 Apollonius, which from various other reasons is believed to have been 

 preceded by the other composition of the same author ( Von Gotes 



1 This declaration that before Heinrich no translation had been made from 

 the Latin into German rhyme, strengthens Weismann's theory quoted above. 



