Letter of Honor (Püterich)

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The letter of honor from Jakob Püterich von Reichertshausen (1400–1469) is a rhyming letter to Princess Mechthild von der Pfalz from 1462.

The Bavarian aristocrat pays homage to the literary ruler who resided in Rottenburg am Neckar . The work, composed in 148 titurel stanzas, consists primarily of a conversation with the addressee, a list of the Bavarian aristocracy eligible for tournaments (to which Püterich's family did not belong) and information on literary works and the libraries of Püterich and Mechthild.

Jokingly ironic staged Püterich as Minne -Ritter and bibliophile. The artistically stylized text is considered a "late sample of courtly sophistication". The statements about Püterich's own large library of 164 volumes and about Mechthild's books, of which he had received a directory, are of significance in literary history. While he himself only valued the old works of the Middle High German classics, Mechthild was also open to contemporary literature. According to Thomas Cramer, the letter of honor is "the most detailed testimony to noble literary interests in the 15th century".

Appreciation

“The first explicit reflection on literary interests from the German (urban) nobility, the first description of a noble book collection, the first considerations on the authenticity of the tradition, all in all something like the first literary correspondence in German (may it be fictitious and only half received) "

- Klaus Grubmüller 1999

Lore

The only tradition of the letter of honor was a manuscript from around 1600 ( Cgm 9220 ) acquired in 1997 for the Bavarian State Library , until in 2015 Klaus Graf found the presumed submission of this manuscript in the so-called Trenbach Chronicle (1590) of the Lower Austrian State Archives.

literature

  • The letter of honor from Püterich von Reichertshausen . Edited by Fritz Behrend / Rudolf Wolkan. Weimar 1920 (edition and black and white facsimile) ( online ).
  • Christelrose Rischer: literary reception and cultural self-image in German literature of the “knight renaissance” of the 15th century. Investigations into Ulrich Füetrer's "Book of Adventure" and the "Letter of Honor" from Jakob Püterich von Reichertshausen. Stuttgart u. a. 1973 (dissertation Munich 1971).
  • Martha Mueller: Jakob Pütrich von Reichertshausen's letter of honor, Johann Holland's tournament rhymes, Ulrich Fuetrer's catalog of names: texts with introduction and commentary . Dissertation City University of New York 1985 (with edition).
  • Klaus Grubmüller: Püterich, Jakob, von Reichertshausen. In: Author's Lexicon, 2nd Edition, Vol. 7 (1989), Sp. 918-923.
  • Bavarian State Library Jakob Püterich von Reichertshausen. The letter of honor. Cgm 9220. Munich 1999 (with color facsimile of the letter of honor).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grubmüller 1989, column 922.
  2. ↑ Thomas Cramer: History of German literature in the late Middle Ages . Munich 1990, p. 88.
  3. ^ Klaus Grubmüller in: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Jakob Püterich von Reichertshausen. The letter of honor 1999, p. 7
  4. ↑ http://www.handschriftencensus.de/8840 . Digitized .
  5. ↑ Klaus Graf: Fiction and History: The alleged chronicle of Wenzel Gruber, Greisenklage, Johann Holland's tournament rhymes and a second tradition of Jakob Püterich's letter of honor in the Trenbach Chronicle (1590) . In: RWTH's Early Modern Blog from February 10, 2015 .