VAIHINGER, Conrad. The Romans attacking Augsburg. COLOURED MINIATURE ON PAPER. [Augsburg, ca.1490] 197 x 145mm. Drawn in brown ink and coloured in pale wash in shades of green, brown, ochre and blue, within an orange frame. (Small inkstain, otherwise in fine condition.) 18 lines of text in German on verso, written in brown ink in a bâtarde hand. The text cites Suetonius on the siege of Augsburg, and is evidently the end of a chapter. The verso is ruled for two columns, but the second column is blank. The illustration depicts the fight of the Romans against the troops of Augsburg and their allies, carrying the standard of Augsburg. Two groups of knights in armour on horseback, with lances and spears, meet in front of the gates of the city. At back several beflagged tents. This is one of a series of illustrations for the Augsburg Chronik of Sigmund Meisterlein, a monk of the monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg, written by him in Latin in 1457, but soon followed by a group of manuscript German translations, of which five were illustrated. The present illustration belongs to a late manuscript edited by Hainrich Pittinger, who was also responsible for the text of the manuscript in Augsburg (Stadtbibl. cod. 4° Aug.1). Lehmann-Haupt has traced and described 22 cuttings, all from the same manuscript, now dispersed in various libraries, and suggests that the manuscript may at one time have had a cycle of as many as forty illustrations. THE PRESENT LEAF IS NOT RECORDED. In one of the known leaves (Berlin Kupferstich Kab. 4076), Vaihinger identifies himself as the scribe and presumably the illuminator. The cuttings recorded by Lehmann-Haupt are: Berlin Kupferstich Kab. 1050, 4073/79 (8 cuttings); Paris, Collection Masson (6 cuttings); Haarlem, Collection König (1); Frankfurt, Kupferstich Kabinett; A collection of 6 drawings belonging to Robert von Hirsch, Frankfurt, subsequently sold to H.P..Kraus, New York (Cf. Catalogue 159: 1981). Swarzenski & Schilling add also Augsburg, Städelsches Institut Inv.14399. LITERATURE: H.Lehmann-Haupt, Schwäbische Federzeichnungen. Studien zur Buchillustration Augsburgs im XV. Jahrhundert . Berlin 1929. Text: Der Bilderkreis der Meisterlein Handschriften, pp 34-38. Beschreibendes Verzeichnis no.29 pp 212-219, plates 88-100. G.Swarzenski & R.Schilling, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Einzelminiaturen des Mittelalters und der Renaissance in Frankfurter Besitz . Frankfurt 1929, no.199, pp 225-6, pl.lxxxiv.
VAIHINGER, Conrad. The Romans attacking Augsburg. COLOURED MINIATURE ON PAPER. [Augsburg, ca.1490] 197 x 145mm. Drawn in brown ink and coloured in pale wash in shades of green, brown, ochre and blue, within an orange frame. (Small inkstain, otherwise in fine condition.) 18 lines of text in German on verso, written in brown ink in a bâtarde hand. The text cites Suetonius on the siege of Augsburg, and is evidently the end of a chapter. The verso is ruled for two columns, but the second column is blank. The illustration depicts the fight of the Romans against the troops of Augsburg and their allies, carrying the standard of Augsburg. Two groups of knights in armour on horseback, with lances and spears, meet in front of the gates of the city. At back several beflagged tents. This is one of a series of illustrations for the Augsburg Chronik of Sigmund Meisterlein, a monk of the monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg, written by him in Latin in 1457, but soon followed by a group of manuscript German translations, of which five were illustrated. The present illustration belongs to a late manuscript edited by Hainrich Pittinger, who was also responsible for the text of the manuscript in Augsburg (Stadtbibl. cod. 4° Aug.1). Lehmann-Haupt has traced and described 22 cuttings, all from the same manuscript, now dispersed in various libraries, and suggests that the manuscript may at one time have had a cycle of as many as forty illustrations. THE PRESENT LEAF IS NOT RECORDED. In one of the known leaves (Berlin Kupferstich Kab. 4076), Vaihinger identifies himself as the scribe and presumably the illuminator. The cuttings recorded by Lehmann-Haupt are: Berlin Kupferstich Kab. 1050, 4073/79 (8 cuttings); Paris, Collection Masson (6 cuttings); Haarlem, Collection König (1); Frankfurt, Kupferstich Kabinett; A collection of 6 drawings belonging to Robert von Hirsch, Frankfurt, subsequently sold to H.P..Kraus, New York (Cf. Catalogue 159: 1981). Swarzenski & Schilling add also Augsburg, Städelsches Institut Inv.14399. LITERATURE: H.Lehmann-Haupt, Schwäbische Federzeichnungen. Studien zur Buchillustration Augsburgs im XV. Jahrhundert . Berlin 1929. Text: Der Bilderkreis der Meisterlein Handschriften, pp 34-38. Beschreibendes Verzeichnis no.29 pp 212-219, plates 88-100. G.Swarzenski & R.Schilling, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Einzelminiaturen des Mittelalters und der Renaissance in Frankfurter Besitz . Frankfurt 1929, no.199, pp 225-6, pl.lxxxiv.
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