22 CHARACTER OF SCHEMBART MSS
volumes (MSS Nos. 2, 17, 22, 40, 47a, 51b, 59), some of the
latter falling into other classes as well.72 A second group embraces
MSS containing only the Schembart text (MSS Nos. 5, 20; in
MS No. 5 space has been left for the miniatures), and those with
this text and some annalistic notes interpolated or added (MSS
Nos. 19, 30, 51). The third division is formed by the full Nurem-
berg chronicles, which also include the Schembart text and minia-
tures (MSS Nos. 3, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 36, 45, 56; in MSS
Nos. 25 and 34 there are no miniatures, in MS No. 56 no Hbllen).
Finally the largest family of MSS would be those in which the
Schembart text and miniatures form the most important ele-
ment in the MS, even though in some cases the Schembartbuch
may have been bound with other material, such as a Turnierbuch.
In this group there are thirty-six MSS (MSS Nos. 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10; 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 18a, 24, 31,37, 38, 39, 41, 42,43,
44, 46, 47, 49, 50, 5ia, 52,57, 58, 60, 61, 63, 67). While these
are not uniform, they nevertheless serve to establish a norm for
the original Schembartbuch. What this norm is we shall see in
the special study to follow of MS No. 1.
72 MS No. 35 would belong here, too, as the chronicle contains an account of the
Schembartlauf for 1539 only.