There is no evidence for explicit vernacular poetics within the early "Meistergesang" of the 14th and 15th century. While institutionally organised "Meistersinger" created a normative literary genre by using tablatures, the poetology of the early anonymous "Meistergesang" can only be deduced from the poetry itself. The normativity of poetological compositions rejects the idea of a notional standard. This abstract norm, which is versified in the poem...