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Auction archive: Lot number 62

SCHÖMPART BÜCH, in German, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER

Auction 07.06.2006
7 Jun 2006
Estimate
£50,000 - £80,000
ca. US$92,113 - US$147,381
Price realised:
£84,000
ca. US$154,750
Auction archive: Lot number 62

SCHÖMPART BÜCH, in German, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER

Auction 07.06.2006
7 Jun 2006
Estimate
£50,000 - £80,000
ca. US$92,113 - US$147,381
Price realised:
£84,000
ca. US$154,750
Beschreibung:

SCHÖMPART BÜCH, in German, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER [Nuremberg, c.1600]362 x 238mm. i + 129 + ii leaves. 1 6 (iii and iv an inserted double-sheet on a guard), 2-8 8, 9 8+ 2, 10 1 1(i a singleton and vii and viii a double-sheet on a guard), 11-12 4, 13 2, 14 7(viii cancelled blank), 15 8, 16 6, 17 4, followed by five fold-out composite sheets on guards, text-pages frame-ruled with a double red fillet, a varying number of lines written in a cursive German hand in brown ink, NINETY-ONE FULL-PAGE PORTRAITS OF COSTUMED, MASKED REVELLERS PAINTED IN FULL COLOUR AND LIQUID GOLD, some of them facing TWENTY-THREE CARNIVAL FLOATS from a quarter to a full page in height, SEVEN LARGE FOLD-OUT SCENES OF CARNIVALS IN THE STREETS OF NUREMBERG up to 940mm wide (some spotting and thumbing, short splits in outer fold of two large scenes). Seventeenth-century vellum gilt with a vellum wrapper from a fifteenth-century German choir missal, two tawed leather fore-edge ties (wrapper scuffed and repaired or reinforced at joints and foredges, one tie broken). A COLOURFUL RECORD OF THE NUREMBERG CARNIVAL PROVENANCE: Recording one of the great civic festivities of Nuremberg, Schempart , Schembart or Schönbart books, both manuscript and printed, were produced from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The present copy is a particularly rich and detailed example that chronicles various events of local history in addition to the material accepted as typical for these books: S. Sumberg, The Nuremberg Schembart Carnival , 1941; H.-U. Roller, Der Nürnberger Schembartlauf. Studium zum Fest- und Maskenwesen des späten Mittelalters , 1965. This manuscript was discussed in K.A. Nowotny, 'Das Nürnberger Schembartlaufen. Eine neuaufgefundene Handschrift' in Masken in Mitteleuropa , Viena 1955, pp.142-190. It is closely comparable in both content and style with a manuscript in Los Angeles (MS *170/351, Young Research Library, UCLA): The World From Here, Treasures of the Great Libraries of Los Angeles , eds C. Burlingham & B. Whiteman, exh. cat. Los Angeles, 2001-2002, pp.158-159. The paper stock of both has a watermark with a star and M very similar to Briquet 8390-8392 and is likely to have been made in northern Italy in the final decade of the 16th century. The final painting in both manuscripts is the carpenters' dance of 1600 and it seems most probable that both manuscripts were produced around this year. It has been suggested that the Los Angeles manuscript was one of a group made around 1600 to celebrate the third centenary of the Nuremberg city council. Rudolf Gutmann: his ex-libris inside upper cover, Ms 741. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: their library stamp and shelfmark -- Ser. nov. 2977 -- on endleaves and one blank folio and included in their catalogue, p.446. Their de-accession stamp at foot of final endleaf. SCHEMPART LAUF: The Schempart Lauf -- a carnival parade for Shrove Tuesday -- originated as a privilege granted by the emperor Charles IV in 1349 to the butchers' guild of Nuremberg. The previous year the trade guilds of the city had risen up, overthrown and replaced the patrician town council. After almost a year Charles IV moved against them, reinstated the original regime, had their usurpers executed and had their new building torn down. To reward the butchers' guild for not participating in the revolt the Emperor granted them the right to a special public celebration on Fassnacht : they could wear masks -- the Schembart -- dance, perform fencing matches and parade. The dancers were protected by Laüfer , runners, whose own performance gradually came to be the main event. They wore not only masks but newly designed, extravagant costumes, richly decorated with embroidery and ribbons, and bells that jingled as they ran through the streets. They brandished lances and bunches of leaves -- Lebensrute -- that concealed fireworks. From the end of the 15th-century there were also floats -- called Hölle or hells -- that were the focus of furt

Auction archive: Lot number 62
Auction:
Datum:
7 Jun 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
7 June 2006, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

SCHÖMPART BÜCH, in German, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER [Nuremberg, c.1600]362 x 238mm. i + 129 + ii leaves. 1 6 (iii and iv an inserted double-sheet on a guard), 2-8 8, 9 8+ 2, 10 1 1(i a singleton and vii and viii a double-sheet on a guard), 11-12 4, 13 2, 14 7(viii cancelled blank), 15 8, 16 6, 17 4, followed by five fold-out composite sheets on guards, text-pages frame-ruled with a double red fillet, a varying number of lines written in a cursive German hand in brown ink, NINETY-ONE FULL-PAGE PORTRAITS OF COSTUMED, MASKED REVELLERS PAINTED IN FULL COLOUR AND LIQUID GOLD, some of them facing TWENTY-THREE CARNIVAL FLOATS from a quarter to a full page in height, SEVEN LARGE FOLD-OUT SCENES OF CARNIVALS IN THE STREETS OF NUREMBERG up to 940mm wide (some spotting and thumbing, short splits in outer fold of two large scenes). Seventeenth-century vellum gilt with a vellum wrapper from a fifteenth-century German choir missal, two tawed leather fore-edge ties (wrapper scuffed and repaired or reinforced at joints and foredges, one tie broken). A COLOURFUL RECORD OF THE NUREMBERG CARNIVAL PROVENANCE: Recording one of the great civic festivities of Nuremberg, Schempart , Schembart or Schönbart books, both manuscript and printed, were produced from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The present copy is a particularly rich and detailed example that chronicles various events of local history in addition to the material accepted as typical for these books: S. Sumberg, The Nuremberg Schembart Carnival , 1941; H.-U. Roller, Der Nürnberger Schembartlauf. Studium zum Fest- und Maskenwesen des späten Mittelalters , 1965. This manuscript was discussed in K.A. Nowotny, 'Das Nürnberger Schembartlaufen. Eine neuaufgefundene Handschrift' in Masken in Mitteleuropa , Viena 1955, pp.142-190. It is closely comparable in both content and style with a manuscript in Los Angeles (MS *170/351, Young Research Library, UCLA): The World From Here, Treasures of the Great Libraries of Los Angeles , eds C. Burlingham & B. Whiteman, exh. cat. Los Angeles, 2001-2002, pp.158-159. The paper stock of both has a watermark with a star and M very similar to Briquet 8390-8392 and is likely to have been made in northern Italy in the final decade of the 16th century. The final painting in both manuscripts is the carpenters' dance of 1600 and it seems most probable that both manuscripts were produced around this year. It has been suggested that the Los Angeles manuscript was one of a group made around 1600 to celebrate the third centenary of the Nuremberg city council. Rudolf Gutmann: his ex-libris inside upper cover, Ms 741. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: their library stamp and shelfmark -- Ser. nov. 2977 -- on endleaves and one blank folio and included in their catalogue, p.446. Their de-accession stamp at foot of final endleaf. SCHEMPART LAUF: The Schempart Lauf -- a carnival parade for Shrove Tuesday -- originated as a privilege granted by the emperor Charles IV in 1349 to the butchers' guild of Nuremberg. The previous year the trade guilds of the city had risen up, overthrown and replaced the patrician town council. After almost a year Charles IV moved against them, reinstated the original regime, had their usurpers executed and had their new building torn down. To reward the butchers' guild for not participating in the revolt the Emperor granted them the right to a special public celebration on Fassnacht : they could wear masks -- the Schembart -- dance, perform fencing matches and parade. The dancers were protected by Laüfer , runners, whose own performance gradually came to be the main event. They wore not only masks but newly designed, extravagant costumes, richly decorated with embroidery and ribbons, and bells that jingled as they ran through the streets. They brandished lances and bunches of leaves -- Lebensrute -- that concealed fireworks. From the end of the 15th-century there were also floats -- called Hölle or hells -- that were the focus of furt

Auction archive: Lot number 62
Auction:
Datum:
7 Jun 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
7 June 2006, London, King Street
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