Freydal
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The Freydal is a tournament book that tells the life story of the young emperor Maximilian I in an allegorical way. Due to the sudden death of Maximilian in 1519, the planned printing was not completed. A handwritten version that the imperial secretary Marx Treitzsaurwein prepared based on Maximilian's dictation has been preserved in the Austrian National Library in Vienna. The Kunsthistorisches Museum Viennapreserves a richly illustrated manuscript by Freydal, which probably served as a personal copy of the emperor. The various forms of competition in tournaments around 1500 are in the foreground of Freydal. Nonetheless, he also deals with numerous mummies and dances at the Maximilian court and is thus a valuable resource for dance research.
After Strobl, the name Freydal derives from Freyd-alb , which means "the white joyful youth".
literature
- Quirin von Leitner: “Freydal.” Emperor Maximilian I's tournaments and mummies. With a historical introduction, a facsimile list of names and 255 heliogravures. Holzhausen, Vienna 1880–1882.
- Joseph Strobl: Studies on the literary activity of Emperor Maximilian I. Georg Reimer, Berlin 1913, pp. 1–30 ( digitized version ).
- Stefan Krause: "The ritterspiel als ritter Freydalb has gethon from knightly gmute" - The tournament book Freydal Kaiser Maximilians I. In: Sabine Haag et al. (Ed.): Kaiser Maximilian I. The last knight and the courtly tournament. Exhibition catalog, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2014, pp. 172–186.
Web links
- Publications on Freidal in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
- Freydal - The tournament book of Emperor Maximilian I from 1512/15 , Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
- Knight and media professional: Maximilian I. , Deutsche Welle
- individual sheets in the National Gallery of Art
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dictations on Triumphzug, Freydal and other works. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
- ^ "Freydal"; Tournament book of Emperor Maximilians I. Retrieved on February 8, 2019 .
- ^ Joseph Strobl: Studies on the literary activity of Emperor Maximilian I. Georg Reimer, Berlin 1913, p. 4.