Jans der Enikel

In this medieval name, the personal name is Jans and Enikel is an appellation or descriptor. There is no family name.
A page from a c. 1370 manuscript with Weltchronik lines 1637-1702. We see two miniatures showing Seth asking an angel for an apple from the tree of life, and Adam's burial at Calvary with the devil taking Adam's soul. There is also an illuminated letter N marking the beginning of the Noah story, with Noah's ark floating over a flooded city.[a]

Jans der Enikel (lit. 'Jans the grandson'), or Jans der Jansen Enikel (lit. 'Jans, the grandson of Jans'), was a Viennese chronicler and narrative poet of the late 13th century.[2] He wrote a Weltchronik (lit. 'world chronicle') and a Fürstenbuch (lit. 'Book of princes', a history of Vienna), both in Middle High German verse.

  1. ^ Günther 1993, p. 209-218.
  2. ^ Geith 1980; Dunphy 2010.


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