A copy of the Alexanderroman (Romance of Alexander) by physician,
translator and poet Johannes Hartlieb (1468) of Munich. This is the
exemplar that Hartlieb had produced for Duke Albrecht III. of
Bavaria (1451-1460) and his wife Anna of Braunschweig by
calligrapher Johannes Frauendorfer of Thierenstein in the year
1454, using a professional Bastarda script. It is illustrated with
45 six-by-thirteen-line fully colored initials, possibly by the
hand of Bavarian miniaturist Hans Rot. Decorations include numerous
simple and intricate vine borders with acanthus leaves, in which a
wide variety of animals frolic, and in which one can find many of
the flowers of the region. The Romance of Alexander remained one of
the most popular prose romances in the German language until 1500.
