Lochamer-Liederbuch

The main scrivener was some friar Jodocus of Windsheim, who is thought to have been a student of the school of the Nuremberg organist and composer Conrad Paumann.

Individual songs can be assigned to authors of late medieval manuscripts, namely the Monk of Salzburg and Oswald von Wolkenstein ("Wach auf, mein Hort", Wake up, my darling").

[1] The second part of the manuscript, titled Fundamentum organisandi, includes 31 organ tablatures by Conrad Paumann.

But it is now confirmed that the dedication was written by someone not familiar with Yiddish or Hebrew, and that Wolflein Lochamer was a member of a Christian Nuremberg patrician family.

[1] In 1811, in a letter to the musicologist Johann Nikolaus Forkel, the antiquarian Christoph Gottlieb von Murr unearthed a remarkable set of fifteenth century manuscripts from Nuremberg with minnelieder or "German minstrel love songs" dating from 1455, 1456, 1452 and 1453: these became the Lochamer-Liederbuch.

[2] Amongst the commentary on the two recent editions from 1972, Konrad Ameln points out that the tune of the troubadour song "Mein freud möcht sich wohl" from the Lochamer-Liederbuch has the same tune as the hymn "Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn" (Zahn 4297a).