Wernigerode Armorial
Author | Anonymous |
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Original title | Wernigeroder Wappenbuch |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Genre | Armorial roll |
Publisher | Unknown |
Publication date | c. 1486–92 |
Pages | 525 |
The Wernigerode Armorial (
The book was formerly in possession of the Schaffhauser family of Schaffhausen, Ehingen am Ries, near Nördlingen, later kept in the Stolberg library of Wernigerode[2] (signature Zi 33), with the dissolution of this library in 1927/8 passing into the private possession of Otto Hupp, and finally bought by the Bavarian State Library in 1949. The manuscript is the first of originally two volumes; the second volume has been lost. A third volume consists of a register to vols. 1 and 2, kept in the Halle University Library (signature Halle, UuLB: Zi 33).
It is an important witness of the transitional period from medieval to classical (early modern) conventions of
On 261 folia it presents various
After this, the armorial presents the actual coats of arms in use at the time, beginning with the
After this preface, the book begins a more realistic listing of the heraldry of its time, beginning on fol. 20v, organized as follows: The arms of the territories and noble families of the
Gallery
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Fol. 3v: Attributed arms of Death, with themottosic transit gloria mundi et respice manus
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Fol. 260r displays thirty coats of arms
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Fol. 260v displays thirty coats of arms
References
- ^ The localisation at Nördlingen is based on a stamp on the cover, the motive "lamb 22a" according to Die Schwenke-Sammlung gotischer Stempel- und Einbanddurchreibungen nach Motiven geordnet und nach Werkstätten bestimmt und beschrieben von Ilse Schunke, Berlin, 2 vols (1979-1996),Beiträge zur Inkunabelkunde 3.
- ^ H. Herricht, Die ehemalige Stolberg-Wernigerodische Handschriftenabteilung. Die Geschichte einer kleinen feudalen Privatsammlung. Halle/Saale 1970.
- ^ John Woodward, A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry, 1894, p. 153f.
External links
- Online facsimile (BSB-CodIcon Online)
- Description of the manuscript by Marianne Reuter, 2009 (BSB-CodIcon Online)(in German)