Nikolaus Meyer zum Pfeil, city clerk of Basel, owned a large
collection of incunabula of mostly German entertainment literature
and himself copied a number of manuscripts, such as this Melusine
by Thüring von Ringoltingen in 1471. The paper manuscript contains
38 colored pen and ink drawings, which apparently are by two
different painters. Because sheets were lost, the current text has
gaps; it is unclear whether illustrations were lost as well.