Portraits of the Habsburg family and of knights killed in the Battle of Sempach (1386)
Description
The first part (1-XX) of this illuminated manuscript on paper
contains images of members of the House of Habsburg, kneeling in
pious posture, represented with their respective coats of arms.
These images reproduce those of the stained glass windows
(1325-1340), now partially lost, of the church of Königsfelden
Monastery (AG), donated in honor of Albert I of Habsburg (murdered
in 1308) by his widow Elizabeth. The prototype of this dynastic
cycle of pictures is the Ehrenspiegel des Hauses Österreich, which
was commissioned between 1555 and 1559 by Johann Jakob Fugger in
Augsburg. Several other copies thereof exist in Vienna (ÖNB, Cod.
8614), Munich (BSB, Cgm 895 and Cod. icon. 330) and Lucerne (ZHB
Ms. 124 fol.). The second part (XXI-203) contains portraits of
knights in armor with their respective coats of arms, who, along
with Leopold III, died in the Battle of Sempach (1386).
Rights
e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
