TY  - BOOK
U1  - Buch
A1  - Clemmensen, Steen
T1  - Donaueschinger Wappenbuch
BT  - Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek : Hs. Don. 496
N2  - A number of german late medieval armorials belong to the Bodensee group, named after their
region of manufacture. Strictly speaking, they do not make up a series of copies, but they share a
number of features. All include many marker coats-of-arms, i.e. combinations of legends and
figures-of-arms unlikely to have been invented independently. Some are curious mistakes of actual
arms, but most belong to the imaginary arms attributed to non-christian realms or to names from
literature. Some armorials include segments of ternionen (three best of each), notably the Nine
Worthies, quaternionen (the Pillars of the Empire), and / or organize parts of the german nobility by
their membership of tournament societies. Woodblocks were used for prestamping the outlines of
shields, helmets and manteling, and several were reused for different armorials. It is likely that part
of the sources used wasere older collations owned by or readily accessible to the artisans
responsible. Except for short fragments copying was rarely used, but pick-and-mix would be the
favoured approach, though by which guiding principles still need to b e clarified.
KW  - Donaueschingen
KW  - Wappenbuch
KW  - Handschrift
Y1  - 2012
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:boa-155494
U6  - https://doi.org/10.57962/regionalia-15549
DO  - https://doi.org/10.57962/regionalia-15549
SP  - 200
S1  - 200
PB  - Steen Clemmensen
CY  - Farum, Denmark
ER  -