This manuscript contains an armorial of sixteenth-century Austro-Bavarian nobility.
Support: Paper; Extent: ii+240+i; 285 x 196 mm bound to 293 x 200 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, lower and upper right recto; inconsistent contemporary foliation in ink upper right recto; inconsistent contemporary foliation in ink lower middle recto; Collation: Structure uncertain
Two lines of five or six (fols. 2-4, 214-223) or three lines of twelve (fols. 5-178) heraldic crests and shields; text frame-ruled in lead/hardpoint (fols. 179-213, 238-240) in thirty-one to forty-four lines, written area: 237 x 135 mm; lists ruled in ink (fols. 224-237), written area: 235 x 132 mm
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Heraldic crests and shields in various colors; woodcut stamps with hand-coloring and some pen infilling; tipped-in woodcuts, including a portrait of the Emperor Maximilian (fol. 1)
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Manuscript is listed in DeRicci on page 2098 of the 1937 edition under the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Austro-Bavaria
16th century
Vellum
German
Two modern pastedowns at the front, "From the Count of Leiders Monastery" and "From the Monastery of Attel, near Wasserburg on the Tun, in Bavaria"; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
Austro-Bavaria
16th century
German
Two modern pastedowns at the front, "From the Count of Leiders Monastery" and "From the Monastery of Attel, near Wasserburg on the Tun, in Bavaria"; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
This manuscript contains an armorial of sixteenth-century Austro-Bavarian nobility.
Manuscript is listed in DeRicci on page 2098 of the 1937 edition under the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Secretary
Heraldic crests and shields in various colors; woodcut stamps with hand-coloring and some pen infilling; tipped-in woodcuts, including a portrait of the Emperor Maximilian (fol. 1)
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
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