Wolfegg, Kupferstichkabinett

Housebook of Wolfegg Castle Facsimile Edition

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The Housebook of Wolfegg Castle is an extended war manual coupled with information of domestic interest to a noble household. Produced in the last quarter of the fifteenth century probably in the middle Rhine region by several artists and scribes, it survives today incomplete. The compilation includes treatises on memory art and mnemonics, astronomy, noble life, metallurgy, and war technology, as well as alchemical recipes. Among its forty drawings are vibrant and lively illustrations of the planets and castle life and detailed drawings of siege weaponry.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Housebook of Wolfegg Castle": Das Mittelalterliche Hausbuch facsimile edition, published by Prestel-Verlag, 1997

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Manuscript book description compiled by Dongwon Esther Kim.
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Das Mittelalterliche Hausbuch

Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1997

  • Commentary (English, German) by Graf zu Waldburg Wolfegg, Christoph
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Housebook of Wolfegg Castle: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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