Ludwig Henfflin's workshop

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Cod. Pal. germ. 16 , sheet 9v - God measures the earth with a compass - working example from the Ludwig Henfflin workshop

The workshop of Louis Henfflin was a Swabian writers workshop of the 15th century. From this workshop, several German-language illuminated manuscripts have come down to us in the manuscript collection of the Codices Palatini germanici from the former Palatinate Electoral Bibliotheca Palatina , all of which are kept in the Heidelberg University Library.

Name of the workshop, place and time of the activity

Cod. Pal. germ. 17 , sheet 14r - Saul's coronation - Date of the manuscript: 1477
Cod. Pal. germ. 67 , sheet 102r - clerk entry Lud. [wig] Hennfflin

There is no independent historical tradition about the workshop of Ludwig Henfflin . The name goes back to an analysis by Hans Wegener , who in his cataloging of the late medieval illuminated manuscripts in the Heidelberg University Library in 1927 established the workshop context of certain codices and introduced them to research under this name. The designation is based on the self-naming of a writer as Lud. [wig] Hennfflin on the last page of a single manuscript, the Sigenot manuscript Cod. Pal. germ. 67 , sheet 102r.

In the manuscript collection of the Codices Palatini germanici there is only a single indication of the chronological classification : on sheet 14r of the manuscript Cod-Pal. germ. 17 , the information 1477 at the feet of the figures can be found inside the illustration frame.

Following Wegener, the workshop was presumably located in Stuttgart , the royal seat of the Counts of Württemberg. The manuscript was commissioned by Margarethe von Savoyen (1420–1479), since her third marriage in 1453 with Ulrich V. Countess of Württemberg-Stuttgart; both coats of arms can be found in several of the assigned manuscripts. Presumably, the Henfflin workshop worked for Margarete between around 1470 and 1479; Neither earlier nor later have there been any evidence of further activities (as of 2020).

The fact that all of the manuscripts from the Henfflin workshop ended up in the Bibliotheca Palatina in Heidelberg can be explained by the client's eventful life. Margaret of Savoy was married to the Palatinate Elector Ludwig IV. The only child from this marriage, Elector Philipp von der Pfalz , probably inherited the manuscripts after Margaret's death in 1479.

The illustrations

Hans Wegener, who discovered the workshop context in 1927, could hardly value the illustrations in the Henfflin workshop ; From his point of view, the colored drawings were "carefully, but very temperamental and unimaginative", he was surprised by "individual scenes [...] through the primitiveness of the depiction", the quality of the draftsman and the drawings is "quite insignificant" for him.

The more recent research, on the other hand, emphasizes the entertaining character of the image sequences and the clarity of the representations, also sees the effort to gain perspective compared to earlier Alsatian illustrators and emphasizes the correctness of the proportions in the figure representation. Only the facial expressions are described as "largely expressionless", the faces often show "a cheerfulness that does not match the text". A special feature of the drawings is their modern narrative character and the richness of detail in the representations. The illustrator from the Henfflin workshop actually designed “ cycles of illustration” and often made use of the trick of “simultaneous illustration” by depicting successive situations of a story in parallel in a single representation. The modern digitization of manuscripts conveys such illustration as a kind of "flip book of the Middle Ages".

Traditional manuscripts

All nine manuscripts that can be assigned to the Henfflin workshop are fully digitized and accessible as an Internet publication from the Heidelberg University Library. In detail:

literature

  • Hans Wegener : The workshop of Ludwig Hennfflin . In: Hans Wegener: Descriptive directory of the German picture manuscripts of the late Middle Ages in the Heidelberg University Library . Verlagbuchhandlung J. J. Weber, Leipzig 1927, pp. 71–72 ( digitized version ).
  • Johannes Schnurr: flip books of the Middle Ages . How 600 year old pictures learned to walk in the computer. In: Die Zeit 16/2004, April 7, 2004.
  • Pia Rudolph: Book Art in the Age of Media Change . The German-language Bible codices of the Henfflin workshop against the background of late medieval iconography. ART-Dok, Heidelberg 2009, on the workshop especially p. 3–9 (= publication of the master's thesis 2008, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt , ART-Dok access , full text online (PDF) , both web presence of the Heidelberg University Library ).
  • Henrike Lähnemann : From Print to Manuscript . The case of a manuscript workshop in Stuttgart around 1475. In: M. C. Fischer / W. A. ​​Kelly (eds.): The Book in Germany . Merchiston Publishing, Edinburgh 2010, ISBN 978-0-9553561-6-2 , pp. 17-34 ( online (PDF)).

Web links

Commons : Werkstatt des Ludwig Henfflin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Hans Wegener: The workshop of Ludwig Hennfflin . In: Descriptive Directory… , Leipzig 1927, p. 72 ( digitized version ; accessed April 2, 2020). Wegener still writes "Hennfflin"; research has since switched to spelling with an "n".
  2. ↑ s. Digitized Cpg 67, 102r , Heidelberg University Library; accessed March 28, 2020.
  3. ↑ Ulrike Spyra, Maria Effinger: Swabian workshop of Ludwig Henfflin , Heidelberg University Library 03/2012; see. Digitized Cpg 17, 14r , Heidelberg University Library; both accessed March 28, 2020.
  4. ↑ Ulrike Spyra, Maria Effinger: Swabian workshop of Ludwig Henfflin , Heidelberg University Library 03/2012; accessed March 28, 2020.
  5. ↑ Hans Wegener: The German Illuminated Manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages in the Heidelberg University Library . In: Descriptive Directory… , Leipzig 1927, p. VII ( digitized version ; accessed April 2, 2020).
  6. ↑ all quotations from Wegener's description of the biblical manuscript Cod. Pal. germ. 16 related to "Draftsman A", from whom almost all illustrations of the nine manuscripts come. Hans Wegener: The workshop of Ludwig Hennfflin . In: Descriptive Directory… , Leipzig 1927, pp. 75–76 ( digitized version ; accessed April 2, 2020).
  7. ↑ Ulrike Spyra, Maria Effinger: Swabian workshop of Ludwig Henfflin , Heidelberg University Library 03/2012; accessed March 28, 2020.
  8. ↑ Ulrike Spyra, Maria Effinger: Cod. Pal. germ. 16-18: 3-volume bible, AT, German , UB-Heidelberg 03/2012; accessed March 28, 2020.
  9. ↑ Johannes Schnurr: flip books of the Middle Ages . How 600 year old pictures learned to walk in the computer. In: Die Zeit 16/2004, April 7, 2004; accessed April 2, 2020.
  10. ↑ A presentation of images of the manuscript Cod. Pal. germ. 67 as a “flip book” cartoon give Spyra / Effinger: Codex Palatinus germanicus 67: Das Heldenepos 'Sigenot' (section flip book ), Heidelberg University Library, 09/2008; accessed April 7, 2020.
  11. ↑ follows Ulrike Spyra, Maria Effinger: Swabian workshop of Ludwig Henfflin , University Library Heidelberg 03/2012; accessed March 28, 2020.
  12. ↑ In addition, the affiliation of Cod. Pal. germ. 143 on the group of Henfflin manuscripts (so Henrike Lähnemann , Margarethe von Savoyen in their literary relationships , Encomia-Deutsch , Berlin 2002, p. 170, FN 20 ( online (PDF) ), with reference to Brigitte Schöning, Friedrich von Schwaben , Aspects of Narration […] Erlangen 1991, pp. 56–57). Ultimately, however, this could not be confirmed (see Henrike Lähnemann, From Print to Manuscript , Edinburgh 2010, pp. 17–18, FN 4 ( online (PDF) ), and Karin Zimmermann, description in the catalog of the Heidelberg University Library, Cod. Pal. Germ. 143, origin , Wiesbaden 2003, pp. 314-315 ( digitized version )). Web links accessed April 11, 2020.
  13. ^ Cpg 16, start page of the digitized material , Heidelberg historical stocks - digital, Heidelberg University Library; accessed April 2, 2020.
  14. ↑ Cpg 17, start page of the digitized material , Heidelberg historical holdings - digital, Heidelberg University Library; accessed April 2, 2020.
  15. ^ Cpg 18, start page of the digitized material , Heidelberg historical holdings - digital, Heidelberg University Library; accessed April 2, 2020.
  16. ^ Cpg 67, start page of the digitized material , Heidelberg historical holdings - digital, Heidelberg University Library; accessed April 2, 2020.
  17. ^ Cpg 76, start page of the digitized material , Heidelberg historical holdings - digital, Heidelberg University Library; accessed April 2, 2020.
  18. ↑ Cod. Pal. germ. 76 was not yet classified as part of the Henfflin corpus by Wegener in 1927 , but the assignment goes back to the Heidelberg research on the occasion of the digitization of the Codices Palatini germanici , s. Spyra / Effinger: Swabian workshop ... , Heidelberg University Library 03/2012. For possible reservations s. Pia Rudolph: Book Art in the Age of Media Change , p. 5, especially FN 11 (ART-Doc 2009, PDF), web presence UB-Heidelberg; Web links accessed March 28, 2020.
  19. ↑ Cpg 142, start page of the digitized material , Heidelberg historical holdings - digital, Heidelberg University Library; accessed April 2, 2020.
  20. ^ Cpg 152, start page of the digitized material , Heidelberg historical holdings - digital, Heidelberg University Library; accessed April 2, 2020.
  21. ^ Cpg 345, start page of the digitized material , Heidelberg historical holdings - digital, Heidelberg University Library; accessed April 2, 2020.
  22. ^ Cpg 353, start page of the digitized material , Heidelberg historical stocks - digital, Heidelberg University Library; accessed April 2, 2020.
  23. ↑ The original order of the pages in this manuscript Cpg 353 was destroyed during binding work (see Karin Zimmermann's scientific description: Cod. Pal. Germ. 353 (PDF), Heidelberg University Library 2007; accessed April 2, 2020.) This makes the narrative context correct no more for text and illustrations. A digital reconstruction of the Heidelberg University Library with the correct order of the pages is available under Cpg 353, Reconstruction, start page of the digitized material , Heidelberg historical holdings - digital, Heidelberg University Library; accessed April 2, 2020.