Illustrations of the coats of arms of those killed in the Battle of Sempach on the side of the Austrian Habsburgs; painting of the Battle of Sempach 1386
Description
This manuscript, with an imposing binding, bears the title
“Schlacht-, Nammen-, Schilt- und Waappen-Buoch von denen noch
bewusten Graffen, Freyen, Edlen, Ritter und Knechten, welche mit
Hertzog Leopoldo II. von Oesterreich auff St. Cirilli den 9.ten Tag
Iulij 1386 vor Sempach umbgekommen und erschlagen worden” (Book
of the battle, name, escutcheon and coat of arms for the known
counts, freemen, nobles, knights and soldiers who perished or were
slain along with Leopold II, Duke of Austria on St. Cyril, the 9th
day of July 1386 at Sempach). Joseph von Rudolphi (1717−1740),
abbot of St. Gall, commissioned this copy in 1738, because, after
studying the Chronicon Helveticum, the great historical work by the
scholar Aegidius Tschudi (1505−1572) of Glarus, and a copy
thereof that he had arranged to have made for his monastery shortly
before from the exemplar at Schloss Gräpplang near Flums (Cod.
Sang. 1213−1220), he had found certain discrepancies with an
older copy of the “Wappenbuch von Sempach”. A colorful painting
of the battle has survived as a sort of frontispiece on a parchment
bifolio (pp. 6−7); it is similar to the painting in the
Schlachtkapelle (“battle chapel”) of Sempach and, according to
Franz Weidmann’s manuscript catalog (Cod. Sang. 1405, p. 2002),
it was “von einem gar alten Kupferstich getreülich abgemalet
worden” (faithfully copied from a quite old copperplate print).
Apparently Joseph Leodegar Bartholomäus Tschudi (1708−1772), a
descendant of Aegidius Tschudi, is responsible for the book
decoration (p. V1). After extensive introductory comments, the
volume’s rich ornamentation with the coats of arms begins with a
portrait of Duke Leopold III (p. 34).
Place
Preferred form
Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
Original form
Joseph Leodegar Bartholomäus Tschudi (book decoration, perhaps the script as well) for the Abbey of St. Gall
Other form
Suisse (Saint-Gall).
Kloster St. Gallen
Abadia de Sankt Gallen
Convent of St. Gall
Abadía de Sankt Gallen
Abbaye de Saint-Gall
Abdij van Sankt Gallen
St. Gall
St. Gall (?) / St. Gall
St. Gall Abbey: Dominikus Feustlin
St. Gall, Benedictine Monastery / Hermitage of St. George
Cloister of St. Gall
St. Gall Abbey
Order of Service for the Monastery of St. Gall in the Directorium of 1583
Monastery of St. Gall: two scribes at the behest of Georg Franz Müller
Monastery of St. Gall, P. Aemilian Zeller
Monastery of St. Gall
Monastery of St. Gall, P. Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger
Jodocus Metzler
Commissioned by Abbot Otmar Kunz
St. Gall Abbey (P. Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger)
Monastery of St. Gall, P. Joseph Bloch
Monastery of St. Gall, Fr. Dominikus Feustlin
Monastery of St. Gall
Abbey of Saint Gall
Partially in St. Gall
Monastery of St. Gall (P. Gregor Schnyder)
St. Gall Abbey (F. Gregor Schnyder)
St. Gall Abbey (P. Gregor Schnyder, P. Chrysostomus Stipplin)
St. Gall Abbey (F. Kolumban Brändle; Brother Gall Beerle)
St. Gall Abbey, P. Ambrosius Epp
St. Gall Abbey (F. Martin ab Yberg; F. Notker Grögle)
St. Gallen
Abbey of St. Gall (Joseph Adam Bürke; F. Notker Grögle)
St Gall
St. Gall (possibly)
Monastery of St. Gall
St. Gall
Monastery of St. Gall (Fr. Heinrich Keller)
St. Gall (Fridolin Sicher)
Monastery of St. Gall (Fridolin Sicher)
[in part Monastery of St. Gall]
Fridolin Sicher
St. Gall (in part)
Lay community of St. Gall, partly Monastery of St. Gall (P. Joachim Cuontz)
Area of the Abbey of Saint Gall
St. Gall (only parts)
Monastery of St. Gall, possibly owned for a time by Fr. Gallus Kemli
Community of lay brothers of the Monastery of St. Gall
