↑ Koschorreck and Werner 1981 discern no fewer than eleven scribes, some working simultaneously, in the production.
↑ the exact number is debatable; of a total of 139 portraits, some are clearly of fictional characters, as in "Klingsor of Hungary" and "King Tyro of Scotland", while others may or may not be fictional, as in "Der Winsbeke", "Die Winsbekin" and Süsskind, the Jew of Trimberg. Yet other entries may feature historical poets but combine poems by several authors.
