Accession number
MS G.54
Object title
Der Wälsche Gast.
Created
Trier, Germany ca. 1380.
Binding
Brown calf, blind-stamped with tools of eagles, lions, arcade with human figures and Trier crosses, over oak boards, with original brass bosses and clasp-pins with their crosses and arms of Falkenstein-Muzenberg. New leather over spine and board edges, straps replaced; original tooling designs largely illegible. Housed in green morocco box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, 1959.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
74 leaves (2 columns, 37 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 352 x 252 mm
Provenance
Made for Kuno von Falkenstein, Archbishop of Trier (1362-1388); escutcheon-shaped upper clasp on front cover engraved with cross identified as that of Trier (argent, a cross gules), escutcheon-shaped lower clasp on front cover engraved with arms identified as those of Falkenstein-Munzenberg (or, a chief gules); Monastery of Amorbach, Bavaria, Gräflich Erbachisches Gesamthaus-Archiv, Erbach im Odenwald; Kurt Arnhold (1887-1951), Dresden; purchased in Jan. 1959 from William H. Schab, New York for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Trier, Germany, ca. 1380.
Artist: illuminated by the Kuno von Falkenstein workshop (cf. Christine Beier).
The illumination of G.54 is unfinished. The miniatures on fols. 32v (Roads to Heaven and Hell) and 34v (Ladder of Virtues and Vices) have not been completed.
Decoration: 69 miniatures, 1 marginal historiation, numerous illuminated initials.
Artist: illuminated by the Kuno von Falkenstein workshop (cf. Christine Beier).
The illumination of G.54 is unfinished. The miniatures on fols. 32v (Roads to Heaven and Hell) and 34v (Ladder of Virtues and Vices) have not been completed.
Decoration: 69 miniatures, 1 marginal historiation, numerous illuminated initials.
Script
textura
Language
Middle High German
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