New manuscripts added to Digitised Armorials list

Colmar, Bibliothèque municipale, 1107 (064), f.8r

This manuscript dates from the 16^th century. It largely consists of coats of arms of noble families with crests, but it also holds a smaller section with coats of arms of cities.

Weblink: http://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/

Dresden, SLUB, Mscr. Dresd. P. 47, f.2v

This manuscript holds one of the earliest versions of Ulrich Füetrer’s Bayerische Chronik produced in 1478, and a series of portraits of Bavarian princes with verses and coats of arms. This section with the portraits and arms is probably of a slightly later date (based on the watermarks ca. 1480s) and stands in close relation to a later version of Füetrer’s chronicle.

Weblink: http://digital.slub-dresden.de/

Literature:

Jean-Marie Moeglin, ‘Das Reich und die bayerischen Fürsten in einer ersten (?) Fassung der Bayerischen Chronik von Ulrich Füetrer’  in: Paul-Joachim Heinig, Sigrid Jahns, Hans-Joachim Schmidt, Rainer Christoph Schwinges, and Sabine Wefers (eds.) FS Peter Moraw (Berlin, 2000) pp. 675–697

Birgit Studt, ‘Zwischen historischer Tradition und politischer Propaganda. Zur Rolle der ‘kleinen Formen’ in der spätmittelalterlichen Geschichtsüberlieferung’,  in:  Hagen Keller, Christel Meier, and Thomas Scharff (eds.) Schriftlichkeit und Lebenspraxis im Mittelalter, 76 (München, 1999) pp. 203-218

Antje Thumser, ‘Die ‘Bayerische Chronik’ des Ulrich Fuetrer († um 1496) – Neue Überlegungen zur Überlieferungsgeschichte’  in: Matthias Thumser (ed.), Editionswissenschaftliche Kolloquien 2005-2007 (Torún, 2008) pp. 303–322.

Heidelberg, UB, cod. pal. germ. 156, f.31r

This is a German copy of Johannes de Thurocz’s Chronica Hungarorum, produced in Bavaria, probably in the 1490s. It contains miniatures of Hungarian rulers, some of which with their coats of arms.

Weblink: http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/

Lisbon, Arquivo nacional da Torre do Tombo, Cartório da Nobreza, liv. 19, f.59v

This luxurious Portuguese armorial is titled Livro do Armeiro-Mor. It was made in 1509, by the herald João do Cró and presents among others coats of arms of European kings and Portuguese nobility.

Weblink: http://digitarq.arquivos.pt/

München, BSB, cod. icon. 308, f.29r

This manuscript presents a large number of coats of arms, around 1300, with an emphasis on southern Germany. According to the, probably not original, title inscription, it was made by the painter Nikolaus Bertschi (ca. 1480-1542) in Augsburg in 1515. The work was continued by others in the same and subsequent centuries.

Weblink: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/

Literature:

Catalogue description online

München, BSB, cgm, 1952, f.14r

This work is titled the Hofkleiderbuch of dukes William IV and Albert V, but contains more than that: a variety of coats of arms, from imaginary arms to southern German nobles and series of princes.  It stems from Bavaria and was made in the 16^th century.

Weblink: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/

München, BSB, cgm 2822, f.5v

This 16th-century manuscript displays portraits and coats of arms of Bavarian and Guelph princes. The second part (with the Guelph princes) shows large similarities with the manuscript Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, cod. hist. qt. 584, which is also in the Digitised Armorials list.

Weblink: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/

Paris, BnF, ms. fr. 90

This piece of parchment from the early 16th century describes the entries of the Hungarian Queen Anne de Foix in Italy in 1502. The description is accompanied by small collections of coats of arms. The maker of the manuscript was Pierre Choque. Unfortunately, only a black/white scan is available.

Weblink: http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Paris, BnF, ms. fr 1437, f.5v

This 15^th-century manuscript presents the Knights of the Round Table, with their coats of arms. Unfortunately, only a black/white scan is available.

Weblink: http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Literature:

Michel Pastoureau, Armorial des chevaliers de la table ronde – Etude sur l’héraldique imaginaire à la fin du Moyen-Âge (Paris, 2006)

Paris, BnF, ms. fr. 5240, f.13v

This paper manuscript with large collections of coats of arms was probably made during the reign of Francois I of France (1515-1547)

Weblink: http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Paris, BnF, ms. fr. 12597, f.11r

This 15^th-century manuscript presents the Knight of the Order of the Round Table, with their coats of arms.

Weblink: http://gallica.bnf.fr

Literature:

Michel Pastoureau, Armorial des chevaliers de la table ronde – Etude sur l’héraldique imaginaire à la fin du Moyen-Âge (Paris, 2006)

Paris, BnF, ms. fr. 18649, f.1r

This armorial in a parchment manuscript was probably made in Lorraine in the first half of the 16^th century.

Weblink: http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Paris, BnF, ms. fr. 23989, f.21v

This late-15^th– century manuscript is a copy of the genealogy of Pierre of Luxembourg and his wife Marguerite des Baux. The explicit states it was made in 1471, but it probably concerns a slightly later copy of the original (Paris, BnF, ms. fr. 5471). The texts in which the ancestors are described are accompanied by their coats of arms.

Weblink: http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Literature:

Germain Butaud, ‘Enquête Généalogique et Histoire: l’Artois et Les Régions Voisines Dans La Généalogie de Luxembourg de Clément de Sainghin (1471)’ in : Alain Provost (ed.), Les Comtes d’Artois et Leurs Archives. Histoire, Mémoire et Pouvoir Au Moyen Age (Arras, 2012) pp. 133–60

Germain Butaud, ‘Généalogie et Histoire Des Rois Mages: Les Origines Légendaires de La Famille Des Baux (XIIIe-XVe S.)’ in : Famille et Parenté Dans La Vie Religieuse Du Midi (XIIe – XVe Siècle) (Toulouse, 2008) pp. 107–154

Paris, BnF, ms. fr. 24399, f.91r

This copy of the Livre du coeur d’amour épris by René d’Anjou is a luxurious parchment manuscript with a large number of miniatures. It dates from the 1460s-1480s. One series present a scene where great historical leaders are commemorated, and their coats of arms are depicted on the miniatures.

Weblink: http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Literature:

There are many works written on the Livre du coeur d’amour épris, too many to mention here. The following article deals with the heraldry in this book.

Florence Bouchet, ‘Rhétorique de l’héraldique dans le roman arthurien tardif: le ‘Meliador’ de Froissart et le ‘Livre du Cuer d’Amours espris’ de René d’Anjou’,  Romania 116 (1998) pp. 239–255.

Paris, BnF, ms. fr. 25183, f.20r

This 16^th-century French armorial in a paper manuscript presents nobles of France under the reign of Francois I of France (1515-1547).

Weblink: http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, cod. sang. 646, f.41v

This paper manuscript containing the Konstanzer Weltchronik by Gebhard Dacher is an autograph written in the 1460s/1470s in Constance. The text is accompanied by a considerable number of coats of arms.

Weblink: http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/

Literature:

Theodor Ludwig, Die Konstanzer Geschichtschreibung bis zum 18. Jahrhundert (Strasbourg, 1894) p. 25 (accessible online)

Sandra Wolff, Die ‘Konstanzer Chronik’ Gebhart Dachers. ‘By des Byschoffs zyten volgiengen disz nachgeschriben ding vund sachen . ..’. Codex Sangallensis 646: Edition und Kommentar ( Ostfildern, 2008)

See Klaus Graf’s blogpost for a critique on this study and further references

Stuttgart, Württembergische LB, HB XIII 1, f.10v

The Weingartner Liederhandschrift is a collection of German courtly poems accompanied by 25 miniatures. 20 of those contain coats of arms of the respective poets. This small parchment manuscript is dated on the first or second decade of the 14^th century.

Weblink: http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/

Literature:

Carmen Kämmerer, ‘Die Weingartner Liederhandschrift in der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart’ in: Bibliotheksdienst 44, Nr. 6 (2010) pp. 553–564 (accessible online)

Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Handschrift Cod. hist. qt. 420, f.2v

This short book (8 folios), titled Geschlechtsregister der fränkischen Familie von Rossaw, presents coats of arms of the German Rossaw family.

Weblink: http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/

Stuttgart, Württembergische LB, cod. hist. qt. 584, f.13r

This luxurious manuscript is usually called the Weingartner Stifterbüchlein. It contains a history of the Guelph family (and a bit of the Staufer), as the founders of the Weingarten monastery in southern Germany, illustrated by large portraits with coats of arms. The manuscript was probably produced around 1510.

Weblink: http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/

Literature:

Hans Ulrich Rudolf, ‘Kostbare Buchmalerei Als Politisches Manifest: Das Weingartener ‘Stifterbüchlein’’, Im Oberland 19 (2008) pp. 11–19.