St. Gall Abbot Ulrich Rösch's (1462-1491) book of heraldry,
containing 1,626 coats of arms of prominent people from the laity
and the clergy, mostly from the southern region of Germany. This
heraldic book was probably prepared in the Heidelberg workshop of
Hans Ingeram for an unknown customer from the area between the
Neckar River and the Upper Rhine. In the 1480s St. Gall Abbot
Ulrich Rösch purchased the volume and had numerous coats of arms
from Swiss and German border areas added in the back pages; these
were drawn by Winterthur artist Hans Haggenberg. One of the most
important heraldic record books of the 15th century.
