bavarikon4UDescription
This manuscript, written on expensive parchment and with initials on a gold ground and many Fleuronné initials, originated in 1489. It is one of the most important German-language travelogues of the late Middle Ages, written by the Nuremberg patrician Hans VI Tucher (1428-1491), who had travelled the Holy Land in 1479/80. The scribe of this manuscript, Paul Sewer, was a brother of the Augustinian monastery of Indersdorf and dedicated his work to Duke Sigmund of the House of Wittelsbach (1439-1501). As a result, the reception of Hans VI Tucher's travel report is attested among high aristocratic circles. Close relations existed between the Augustinian monastery and the House of Wittelsbach anyway, which were particularly cultivated under Sigmund and his father Albrecht. Hans VI also had connections to the monastery. He himself, his wife Ursula, his son Hans XI and his son's wife Felicitas belonged to the spiritual brotherhood of Indersdorf and were considered by the canons in their daily prayers. The manuscript is based on the sixth and last of the incunabula editions printed by Anton Sorg in the Augsburg office in 1486. The manuscript adopts the two-column format style of the printed edition and follows the text very closely. It has a blind embossed sheepskin binding, which was made in the monastery's own bookbinding workshop. // Datum: 2019
Author
Randall Herz