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NUREMBERG 1449-1539 -- SCHEMBART BOOK, in German, ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER [Nuremberg, c.1540
NUREMBERG 1449-1539 -- SCHEMBART BOOK, in German, ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER [Nuremberg, c.1540} 2 o, 310 x 210mm (12½ x 8½ inches). ii + 88 leaves, foliated 1-87 skipping a leaf between 17 and 18 and including 3 final blanks, 100 pages with text written in a variety of German cursive hands, TWENTY PEN AND INK DRAWINGS OF CARNIVAL FLOATS on text pages and SIXTY-FOUR FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS OF FULL-LENGTH MASKED AND COSTUMED FIGURES in colour, some details in gold and silver leaf (some spotting and staining). Contemporary limp vellum with flap (loose in binding, lacking fore-edge ties, splits at head and foot of flap-fold), brown cloth box with leather lettering-piece. Provenance: Johann Wilhelm Kress von Kressenstein (1589-1658), his engraved armorial bookplate of ?1619 on front endleaf: Princely House of Liechtenstein, engraved armorial bookplate inside upper cover and pencilled shelfmark on front endleaf; purchased from H.P. Kraus 1954. CONTENT: Individual records for all 64 Schembart carnivals from 1449-1539 over page-openings with illustration on verso and text on the facing recto ff.1-65; extended account of the riotous carnival of 1507 ff.66-67v; list of all the participants in the Lauf of 1532 ff.68-69; descriptive text for 1539 f.70; later 16th-century additions, including the account of the institution of the Schembart Lauf ff.71-73v, repeated entries for the first 63 years it took place ff.73-78, and subsequent events into the 1560s ff.79-84. AN EARLY AND COMPLETE RECORD OF THE COSTUMES AND FLOATS FROM 1449-1539.