Eine unbekannte Handschrift mit einer Porträtgalerie der Wettiner

• Authors: Kamil Boldan

Title variants

CS

Neznámý rukopis s portrétní galerií Wettinů

EN

Unknown manuscript in the Wettin portrait gallery

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

The paper draws attention to an almost unknown manuscript that had been held in the Cistercian Monastery library at Osek and has been kept in the Plzeň Municipal Archive since 1970. It contains full-page copies of the Wettin gallery portraits commissioned by the end of the 1580s by Christian I of Saxony from court painter Heinrich Göding. The lixurious binding of the manuscript shows that it was written at the same time as the portrait gallery was produced directly for Christian I. The manuscript has an inestimable value nowadays because original canvases painted by Göding are unaccounted for since the end of World War Two.

Keywords

EN

renaissance manuscripts; renaissance booksbindings; ancestral portrait gallery; Gallery of the House of Wettin; Dresden castle; cistercian monastery in Osek

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Masaryk's Institute and Archives, ASCR
• Journal: Studie o rukopisech (Manuscript Studies)
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 49-69
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kamil Boldan

• Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, v. v. i., Gabčíkova 2362/10, 182 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Egbert Thümmel

• Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, v. v. i., Gabčíkova 2362/10, 182 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic