rixner george (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Near fine. 2 volumes, quartos. Commentary volume 76 pp., quarter tan pigskin charcoal gray boards. Facsimile volume 86 pp. with ms. facsimile reproduced in 6 colors and gold, bound in full tan pigskin with gilt and red armorial crest embossed on front board. Together in velvet-lined slipcase. Publisher's prospectus (in English) laid in. Slight fading to spines, else fine. Superb facsimile of the manuscript "Tournament Book" created by Imperial Herald George Rixner in 1615. The lavish manuscript records aristocratic lineage of a south-western German family and depicts the accoutrements and pageantry of the tournament. Text in German. Commentary text in French. Edition of 500 copies (480 for sale), this #22. Signed in the colophon by the Prefect of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Mgr. Alfons M. Stickler. Limited edition facsimile of the 1615 original edition.

hardcover. Zustand: fine. Facsimile of a manuscript in the Vatican Library. 67 illustrations reproduced in six colors plus gold, on acid free paper. 80pp., 4to, embossed white pigskin.(Zurich: Belser, 1983). Fine. Spectacularly illustrated manuscript, created in 1615 to prove the aristocratic lineage of a family from Kraichgau, it depicts the pageantry of armor, horses, and heraldry. The original is in the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana. (Codex Ross. 711). Accompanying the volume is a commentary by Lotte Kurras, identical in size and bound in white cloth. The two volumes are housed in the publisher's board slipcase.