Armorial manuscript, comprising 5 double-page sheets on thick, good-quality paper and mounted at an early date. 96 shields per page (half a sheet), each finely drawn in pen and ink with original watercolour, names below in brown ink. Light age browning, old damp stain to foot of one sheet, small tearing to one lower corner. A unique volume in modern tan calf with gold tooling, spine with raised bands and double gilt-line decoration. 45 x 34.5 cm
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. Slim folio comprising 5 double-page sheets on thick, good-quality paper and mounted at an early date. 96 shields per double-page sheet, each finely drawn in pen and ink with original watercolour, names below in brown ink. Light age browning, old damp stain to foot of one sheet, small tearing to one lower corner. A unique volume in modern tan calf with gold tooling (conserved and rebound in 2010, original invoice included), spine with raised bands and double gilt-line decoration.
"The 480 hand-painted armorials and elaborate crests include many canting arms, representing the bearer’s name in visual puns, as well as early Grand Masters of the Teutonic Knights—not recorded in Siebmacher’s Wappenbuch—such as Karl Beffart, Heinrich Dusner (1280-1353), and Ludolf König (1290-1348). Bavaria, Suabia, Franconia, and Rhineland are the most prevalent areas represented in the bearers’ coats. A thorough, beautifully and precisely drawn, study on early Germanic heraldry, worthy of close examination."
Places: Germany, Austria
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