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Minne scene Nikolaus Meyer zum Pfeil and Barbara zum Lufft , above with alliance coat of arms for Lufft-Meyer zum Pfeil ( tapestry , Basel around 1471/1490)

Junker Nikolaus Meyer zum Pfeil (* 1451 (it is also given as "1435/1445") in Basel , † 1500 in Basel) was an early German-speaking humanist and writer . He was mayor in Mulhouse and councilor and council clerk in Basel.

Life

origin

Nikolaus Meyer zum Pfeil was the third person to take this name from an old Basle family named after the arrow in the family coat of arms, who held the Junker title in the 15th and 16th centuries . His parents were Hans Ludwig Meyer zum Pfeil (* 1431; † 1452) and Katharina von Mutzwiler .

Act

The humanist Nikolaus Meyer zum Pfeil wrote several vernacular manuscripts: in 1471 an illustrated “Melusine”, 1472 a translation of “Belial” (1382) by Jacobus de Theramo , Archbishop of Taranto , and an unfinished plenary . In 1495 he wrote his own private prayer book , which he had furnished with five full-page miniatures and numerous decorations. In 1474 he is attested as mayor in Mulhouse (in the south of Alsace ), and since 1480 he has been a council clerk in Basel. Nikolaus Meyer zum Pfeil was the owner of several incunabula . For example, he owned Steinhöwel's “Griseldis”, his “Apollonius” and the first translations of Niklas von Wyle .

family

Junker Nikolaus Meyer zum Pfeil was married to Barbara, daughter of the Basel councilor Ulrich zum Lufft zu Weinleuten and Magdalena Eberler since 1471 .

A Basel wool knitting , a wall hanging , created around 1471/1490 on behalf of Nikolaus Meyer zum Pfeils and his wife Barbara zum Lufft, consists of three fragments: In the main scene, the wall hanging first shows the summer muse of courtly dressed people in a rich garden landscape. A house tent offers shade. The coats of arms of the Basel families zum Lufft (three black saddles and red crossbars on a silver background) and Meyer zum Pfeil (a fallen silver arrow, accompanied by a fallen silver moon on the top, on a black background) are affixed to its front and on the two flags . In the room, an elegant couple is sitting at the stone table playing cards on a bar bench. A page pours into a mug. A cup is on the table next to the fruit bowl and radish. The twisted banner of the young man contains the sentence: den. us. litter. hand. her. well. reconsidered , and the lady’s banner confirms: Thu. with. han. I. the. spil. won . The middle part has the dimensions (height) 103 × (length) 131 cm. The two outer fragments are smaller, the left being the smallest of the ensemble with a height of 95 cm and length of 51 cm. The right one measures 98 × 78 cm. The young man depicted in it proclaims with his banner: tender. frou. in. iuweren. service. am I. all quot. ready. The tapestry is in the Basel Historical Museum .

Nikolaus Meyer zum Pfeil's children with Barbara zum Lufft were:

Jakob Meyer zum Pfeil, the youngest son
  • Ludwig Meyer zum Pfeil († 1508), Grand Councilor of Basel, unmarried
  • Adelberg Meyer zum Pfeil (* 1474 in Basel, † June 8, 1548 in Basel), cloth merchant , councilor and member of the Basel “gentlemen's guilds” ( merchants' guilds ) for saffron and the key and the craftsmen's guild in Webern , 1521 - for the first time disregarding formal episcopalism Appointment rights - elected mayor by the Basel Council ; married in first marriage in 1503 Katharina Hütschi (* 1470; † 1508), daughter of Melchior Hütschi, guild master at the key in Basel, in second marriage in 1509 Margaretha Trutmann, daughter of Hans Trutmann, councilor to the key and chief guild master in Basel and Clara Brunlin, in third marriage 1533 Katharina Bischoff (* 1515; † 1541), daughter of Andres Bischof, Basel councilor to housemates and Barbara Bär
  • Helena Meyer zum Pfeil († 1515/1519), married to the councilor and guild master Hans Gallicion
  • Bernhard Meyer zum Pfeil (* 1488; † 1558), changer , councilor to the key and 1548–58 mayor of Basel; married in first marriage in 1512 Helena Bär († 1515), in second marriage in 1515 Maria Wölflin
  • Jakob Meyer zum Pfeil († before 1515), married Anna von Lütersdorf; the marriage remained childless

literature

  • M. Backes: Foreign histories. Studies on the transmission and reception history of French narratives in the German late Middle Ages (Hermaea NF 103), Tübingen 2004, p. 104.
  • G. Binz: Basel, University Library, OI 18. Archive description 1938, p. 1f.
  • J. Geiss: Libraries between two binding covers? Thoughts on the historical value of incunabulum anthologies, in: Scrinium Berolinense. Tilo Brandis on his 65th birthday, Volume II, edited by PJ Becker, E. Bliembach et al. Berlin 2000, pp. 718-728, in particular pp. 721f.
  • P. Ochsenbein: "Prayer book of Niklaus Meyer zum Pfeil", in: 2VL 2 (1980), Sp. 1119f.
  • U. Rautenberg: The "Melusine" of the Thuringia of Ringoltingen and the Basel first edition by Bernhard Richel, in: A. Schnyder / U. Rautenberg (ed.): Thuringia of Ringoltingen: Melusine (1456). After the first edition Basel: Richel around 1473/74, Volume II: Commentary and Essays, Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 61–99, pp. 75f.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h Hans Berner:  Meyer zum Pfeil, Adelberg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 324 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. a b Ludger Lieb and Otto Neudeck (eds.): Triviale Minne ?: Conventionality and trivialization in late medieval Minnereden, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2006: Eine Basler Tapisserie, pp. 189–192 (digitized version ) .
  3. ^ A b c Marburg Repertory on Translation Literature in Early German Humanism: Nikolaus Meyer zum Pfeil .
  4. a b c d e f g h i j k patrician families Basel: extract from the Meyer zum Pfeil family (PDF file; 29 kB).
  5. ^ A b Société Genevoise de Généalogie: Hans Ludwig Meyer zum Pfeil (1431–1452)