Chronicle

Description

Title: Chronicle
Creator: Twinger, Jakob, von Königshofen, 1346-1420
Published / Created: 1454.
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of the A-recension of Twinger's Chronicle which was written in 1386. Chapter 1: History of the Ancient World, based on the Bible and classical sources (ff. 2r-32v); 2: History of the Roman Emperors from Julius Caesar to King Wenceslas (ff. 32v-101r); 3: History of the Popes (ff. 101v-135r); 4: History of the Bishops of Strasbourg (ff. 135v-158v); 5: History of Strasbourg and Alsace (ff. 159v-225v). With a short passage referring to the war of the Swiss in Alsace and the Black Forest in 1468, added in a later hand
Description: In German.
Watermarks similar to Piccard Ochsenkopf VII.151.
Script: Written in a cursive book hand by a single scribe. Numerous annotations to the text in margins by a later hand.
Two uninspired initials, 7- and 5-line, in red with crude penwork in green. Plain initials, headings and rubrics in red.
Binding: 18th-19th centuries (?). Vellum over wooden boards with two brass clasps. Blue/green edges and title in ink on spine.
Provenance: Acquired by H. P. Kraus from Hienrich Rosenthal of Lucerne in 1945. Bought from Kraus, 9 January 1970, as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke.
Extent: ff. 250 + ii : 272 x 200 (210 x 140) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Germany
Subject (Name): Twinger, Jakob, von Königshofen, 1346-1420.
Subject (Topic): German literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
History
Subjects: Twinger, Jakob, von Königshofen, 1346-1420
German literature > Middle High German, 1050-1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Germany > History > 1273-1517
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Chronicle. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.