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Albrecht III., Bayern, Herzog (1401-1460)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 625
Parchment · 340 pp. · 25 x 19.5 cm · Dürnstein · 1454
Romance of Alexander

A copy of the Alexanderroman (Romance of Alexander) by physician, translator and poet Johannes Hartlieb (1468) of Munich. This is the exemplar that Hartlieb had produced for Duke Albrecht III. of Bavaria (1451-1460) and his wife Anna of Braunschweig by calligrapher Johannes Frauendorfer of Thierenstein in the year 1454, using a professional Bastarda script. It is illustrated with 45 six-by-thirteen-line fully colored initials, possibly by the hand of Bavarian miniaturist Hans Rot. Decorations include numerous simple and intricate vine borders with acanthus leaves, in which a wide variety of animals frolic, and in which one can find many of the flowers of the region. The Romance of Alexander remained one of the most popular prose romances in the German language until 1500. (smu)

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  • Albrecht III., Bayern, Herzog (Patron) | Hartlieb, Johannes (Author) | Hartlieb, Johannes (Translator)
    • Found in: Standard description (Scarpatetti Beat Matthias von, Die Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, Bd. 1: Abt. IV: Codices 547-669: Hagiographica, Historica, Geographica, 8.-18. Jahrhundert, Wiesbaden 2003, S. 229f.)
  • Albrecht III., Bayern, Herzog (Patron)
    • Found in: Additional description (Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 203.)
  • Albrecht III., Bayern, Herzog (Patron) | Hartlieb, Johannes (Author) | Hartlieb, Johannes (Translator)
    • Found in: Additional description (Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 203.)
  • Albrecht III., Bayern, Herzog (Patron) | Hartlieb, Johannes (Author) | Hartlieb, Johannes (Translator)
    • Found in: Additional description (Katalog der datierten Handschriften in der Schweiz in lateinischer Schrift vom Anfang des Mittelalters bis 1550, 
Bd. III: Die Handschriften der Bibliotheken St. Gallen-Zürich, bearbeitet von Beat Matthias von Scarpatetti, Rudolf Gamper 
und Marlis Stähli, Dietikon-Zürich 1991, Nr. 139, S. 51.)
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