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ALBUM AMICORUM of Georg C. Hanseman, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER AND VELLUM
Ratisbon, Strasburg and Paris, 1662-1669
85 x 130mm. 304 leaves (including approx 150 blanks), INCLUDING APPROXIMATELY 80 BLAZONED COATS OF ARMS AND SEVEN OTHER MINIATURES AND DRAWINGS (a few of the inscriptions rubbed with some loss of legibility). 17th-century red morocco gilt over thin wooden boards, crowns on a diapered field (without two fore-edge ties), gilt edges (a little rubbed and darkened); with a separate volume containing transcriptions of the entries in an 18th-century German hand, with a contents list in a 20th-century hand. 20th-century morocco-backed slipcase.
PROVENANCE:
1. Georg C. Hanseman: his arms on f.304; Hanseman is identified in the inscriptions as a Doctor of Law and Councillor of Ratisbon.
2. Max Rosenheim (the album described in his paper in Archaeologia vol.62 (1910))
CONTENT:
The miniatures and drawings comprise: f.167v A shepherd and shepherdess in a pastoral setting, a city in the distance; f.184 A gentleman in European dress, and two Turks, with the arms of Freiherr von Schwarzenhorn, former 'Orator' at the Sublime Porte; f.203v Contrasting martial and agricultural scenes, separated by a coat of arms; f.214 A pilgrim; f.229 A bare-breasted female figure in an attitude of prayer; f.258 A stag defying the attacks of serpents as it crosses a body of water, with the motto 'Transit fluctus, spernitque colubros'; f.284 A elegant portrait roundel in monochrome watercolours, inscribed 'Daniel à Neüberg S.C.M. Sculptor', Ratisbon, 27 August 1667; f.285 A finely-realised drawing of the head of a young man.
In 1663 Ratisbon [modern Regensburg] had become the permanent seat of the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire, and Hanseman's album is therefore filled with the arms and inscriptions of many of the most notable electors, prelates, princes and nobility of the empire.
Ratisbon, Strasburg and Paris, 1662-1669
85 x 130mm. 304 leaves (including approx 150 blanks), INCLUDING APPROXIMATELY 80 BLAZONED COATS OF ARMS AND SEVEN OTHER MINIATURES AND DRAWINGS (a few of the inscriptions rubbed with some loss of legibility). 17th-century red morocco gilt over thin wooden boards, crowns on a diapered field (without two fore-edge ties), gilt edges (a little rubbed and darkened); with a separate volume containing transcriptions of the entries in an 18th-century German hand, with a contents list in a 20th-century hand. 20th-century morocco-backed slipcase.
PROVENANCE:
1. Georg C. Hanseman: his arms on f.304; Hanseman is identified in the inscriptions as a Doctor of Law and Councillor of Ratisbon.
2. Max Rosenheim (the album described in his paper in Archaeologia vol.62 (1910))
CONTENT:
The miniatures and drawings comprise: f.167v A shepherd and shepherdess in a pastoral setting, a city in the distance; f.184 A gentleman in European dress, and two Turks, with the arms of Freiherr von Schwarzenhorn, former 'Orator' at the Sublime Porte; f.203v Contrasting martial and agricultural scenes, separated by a coat of arms; f.214 A pilgrim; f.229 A bare-breasted female figure in an attitude of prayer; f.258 A stag defying the attacks of serpents as it crosses a body of water, with the motto 'Transit fluctus, spernitque colubros'; f.284 A elegant portrait roundel in monochrome watercolours, inscribed 'Daniel à Neüberg S.C.M. Sculptor', Ratisbon, 27 August 1667; f.285 A finely-realised drawing of the head of a young man.
In 1663 Ratisbon [modern Regensburg] had become the permanent seat of the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire, and Hanseman's album is therefore filled with the arms and inscriptions of many of the most notable electors, prelates, princes and nobility of the empire.