Little attention has been devoted to date to the literary potential of exempla from the Late Middle Ages. This work sheds light on the content as well as the methods of German-language prose exempla, elucidating the contexts surrounding their production and reception. The study focuses on a manuscript from the convent of St. Mary Magdalen in Strasbourg (Berlin, SBB-PK, Ms. germ. fol. 863), which contains nearly 600 prose exempla.