Marion ([info]mmcnealy) wrote,
@ 2008-04-29 08:08:00
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Current mood: artistic
Entry tags:art research, bsb, calligraphy, fechtbuch, men's clothing, tourney books

More pretty stuff from BSB
More fun stuff from BSB

Paul Mair's De Arte Athletica, Volume I and II, Augsburg middle of the 16th century, BSB Cod.icon. 393 1 and 2
Volume 1: http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/codicon/Band_bsb00006570.html
Volume 2: http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/codicon/Band_bsb00007894.html

This book is in FULL color and has some of the most beautiful men's clothes I've ever seen! Here's an example from Vol 1


Hans Burgkmair: Turnierbuch - Copy of the Original of Hans Burgkmair the Elder. - BSB Cod.icon. 403, Augsburg 1540
http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/codicon/Band_bsb00015125.html

Tourney book of Hans Burgkmair, lots of great horse barding, armour, and some clothes.


Turnierbuch. Ritterspiele gehalten von Kaiser Friedrich III. und Kaiser Maximilian I. in den Jahren 1489 - 1511 - BSB Cod.icon. 398
Augsburg ? 1550
http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/codicon/Band_bsb00002178.html

Plates showing matches from tourney's in 1497, 1498, 1491 and 1511


Schriber, Stephan: Spätgotisches Musterbuch des Stephan Schriber - BSB Cod.icon. 420
Urach um 1494
http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/codicon/Band_bsb00019746.html

Late Gothic Pattern Book, more cool calligraphy and illumination sample book.


Kleinodienbuch der Herzogin Anna von Bayern - BSB Cod.icon. 429
München 1552 - 1555
http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/codicon/Band_bsb00006598.html

Jewelry catalog book of Herzogin Anna of Bavaria painted by Hans Mielich. Here's just a sample

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[info]penguininarmor
2008-04-29 01:49 pm UTC (link)
Do you mind if I post the relivent links you've been posting here on Sword Forum?

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[info]mmcnealy
2008-04-29 02:55 pm UTC (link)
Sure, please post them to Sword Forum

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[info]peteyfrogboy
2008-04-29 01:50 pm UTC (link)
I wonder how accurate the coloring is in the Arte Athletica. I'm very tempted to make some of those; they look terribly comfy.

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[info]mmcnealy
2008-04-29 05:33 pm UTC (link)
They do look comfortable, don't they?
The colors described in the Schwartz Trachtenbuch are anything but plain, and there's a reference to three suits of clothing made for a fellow to go off and fight the Turks, one in salmon pink, one in saffron yellow and one in sky blue. The book its from is, "Civic culture and everyday life in early modern Germany"
by Bernd Roeck
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/75186951 . I don't have a page number handy, but I can look it up if you need it.

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[info]hsifeng
2008-04-29 03:36 pm UTC (link)
*head spinning*

I am going to have to find some way to look at all of these along with all the other cool things I have to play with at home thanks to you! *grin*

BTW - THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

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[info]biblipeacay
2008-04-29 03:49 pm UTC (link)
Just to say "WoW" and thanks. I have no recollection how I came across your site the other day but you have already provided me with a wealth of visual goodness and I hope everybody is clicking through the 'via link' I added to a post on my real website a day or 2 ago. German repositories, though stocked with amazing tomes, are notoriously difficult (imho) to traverse easily, particularly for a someone such as me with no local language skills. What you've posted here over a week might otherwise take me months to find. So I'm seriously grateful for your efforts. Cheers! (peacay from BibliOdyssey)

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[info]mmcnealy
2008-04-29 04:35 pm UTC (link)
You probably found me through Achivalia, and this post
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4895844/

I'm really glad you are enjoying this. I go through periods of intense data mining and post tons of stuff, and then I give the sources time to put up new stuff and go back and mine them again. I'm trained as a librarian and professional digital researcher, so doing this comes pretty naturally, plus I find it a lot of fun. :)

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[info]biblipeacay
2008-04-29 04:44 pm UTC (link)
No. Archivalia found you through me! I think I must have been searching on some book or other. I'm a bit of a digiresearcher too, though trained 'on the blog job', so to speak. I follow the BSB feed (when it works, grrr) among a container load of other ones. But I'm a mile wide and an inch deep -- from architecture to religion to fashion to alchemy &c &c &c -- which is why I'm happy to find a simpatico specialist!

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[info]mmcnealy
2008-04-29 04:47 pm UTC (link)
Ah, is that how it worked, I wondered. ;) Glad to have found another another researcher.

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Stone Questions
[info]hsifeng
2008-04-29 04:52 pm UTC (link)
OK, I have devoured the “Kleinodienbuch der Herzogin Anna von Bayern” and I have a question: Does anyone know what the green stones are that are being used here & the blue stones like the one here?

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Re: Stone Questions
[info]mmcnealy
2008-04-29 04:53 pm UTC (link)
My guess is emeralds on the first one, and the second might be an uncut diamond, not really sure.

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Re: Stone Questions
[info]hsifeng
2008-04-29 05:00 pm UTC (link)
Danke!

I sent the link to that book off to the jeweler who made the wedding rings that my husband and I wear (based on these images from the GNM Ring Closed & Ring Open). I think she may pee herself. *grin*

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Re: Stone Questions
[info]rectangularcat
2008-05-01 02:58 am UTC (link)
not a diamond for sure. blue diamonds are really colourless but flouresce blue under UV light.

probably a saphire

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