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Tournament Book

Object Details

Title:

Tournament Book

Artist/Maker:

Unknown

Culture:

German

Place:

Augsburg (probably), Germany (Place Created)

Date:

about 1560–1570

Medium:

Tempera colors and gold and silver paint on paper bound between original pasteboard covered with original brown calf

Object Number:

Ms. Ludwig XV 14 (83.MR.184)

Dimensions:

Leaf: 43 × 28.9 cm (16 15/16 × 11 3/8 in.)

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Provenance
Provenance
1574

Octavius Betta
Source: Inscription on lower cover.
Note: Next to the inscription on the front cover is a pious inscription in Czech, suggesting an early transfer of the manuscript from Bavaria to Bohemia (Prague).

- 1967

William Henry Schab, 1888 - 1975

1967 - 1983

Dr. Peter Ludwig, German, 1925 - 1996

-

Irene Ludwig, German, 1927 - 2010, sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1983.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Illuminated Secular Manuscripts (July 17 to September 30, 1990) (fols. 7v-8)
  • The J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu), July 17 to September 30, 1990
Illuminated Secular Manuscripts (January 24 to April 9, 1995) (fols. 7v-8)
  • The J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu), January 24 to April 9, 1995
Ten Centuries of Manuscript Illumination in Germany and Central Europe (July 21 to October 18, 1998) (fols. 5v-6)
  • The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles), July 21 to October 18, 1998
Chivalry in the Middle Ages (July 8 to November 30, 2014) (fols. 7v-8; fols. 18v-19)
  • The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles), July 8 to November 30, 2014
All that Glitters: Life at the Renaissance Court (August 28 to December 2, 2018) (fols. 27v-28)
  • The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles), August 28 to December 2, 2018
Bibliography
Bibliography

The William H. Schab Gallery, New York. Catalogue Forty Four. 1967, cat. no. 4, pp. 3-4, pls. 67, 68.

"Manuscript Acquisitions: The Ludwig Collection." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 12, 1984, p. 306.

von Euw, Anton, and Joachim M. Plotzek. Die Handschriften der Sammlung Ludwig. 4 vols. (Cologne: Schnütgen-Museum, 1979-1985), vol. 4 (1985), pp. 289-99.

Touwaide, Alain. "Visions du monde médiéval à travers les manuscrits enluminées du J. P. Getty Museum (Malibu)." Scriptorium 45, no. 1 (1991), pp. 298-302.

Kren, Thomas. Illuminated Manuscripts of Germany and Central Europe in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009), p. 31, figs. on pp. 124-27 (fols. 2v, 46v, 47).

Terjanian, Pierre. "The Art of the Armorer in Late Medieval and Renaissance Augsburg: The Rediscovery of the Thun Sketchbooks," Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien 13/14 (2011/2012), p. 63.