Michael Ott, Kriegsregiment, etc.; southern Germany, c. 1530
MS. Douce 186
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Michael Ott, Kriegsregiment, etc.; southern Germany, c. 1530
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 186
Date
c. 1530
Language
German
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper. Watermarks (a) Piccard, Krone XII: 47 (Chur, Böblingen, Heidenheim, Ulm, - Pragau) 1522–29; closest to Piccard-Online 52711, 52712 (b) (fols. 36-7, 39, 41) Piccard, Krone XII: 48 (Innsbruck, with all of South Germany, plus Poznan and Glogow) 1508–32; closest to Piccard-Online 53323-53332
Physical extent
86 leaves, foliated in modern pencil as 85 (two leaves are numbered fol. 35)
Hands
Mostly in one cursive hand.
Two additions in a subsequent 16th century hand, on fols. 28v-29r and 72v; all in black ink.
Decoration
Illuminated arms fol. 1v and 83r (see below, Provenance). Four coloured pen drawings of individuals (a Turk, 2v; a herald, in Imperial dress, 30v; a master of artillery, 44v; a commander-in-chief of infantry, 75v). Depictions of military insignia on fols. 24r, 24v, 25v, 26r, 26v. Fol. 27r, a large coloured pen drawing: a pastoral scene, in which a pilgrim is directed by an older man towards a wayside shrine, bearing the image of the Crucifixion, and away from a hillock on which the papal insignia and a priest kneeling before them are to be found.
Binding
Contemporary blind-rolled leather on paper binding, with metal hasp (still functioning). The binding resembles in structure and design those of other early copies of the Kriegsregiment and related texts (e.g. Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 123), but the rolls differ.
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834
Provenance
Heraldry, fols. 1v (per pale, dexter bendy sinister of six gules and argent, sinister or a dimitiated imperial eagle sable) and 83r (Sankt Jörgenschild?).
On the inside front cover in modern German hand, 'Militairische Abhandlung mit wohlgezeichneten und illuminirten Figuren, die ich für eine Arbeit des Hans Burgmair halte'. The same hand has written Savoy? next to the arms on fol. 83r.
Francis Douce, 1757–1834
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Title
A treatise of German military organization
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 186
Summary
Beg. 'In dem namen Gotz Vatters Suns vnnd des Hayligen Gayst ... Zu lob eren ynnd wolfart der gantzen Cristenhayt vnd sunderlich teutsche land': there are illustrations of types of men ('Turckh', fol. 2V: 'Heroldt', fob 30v: 'Veldzeugmayster', fol. 44v: 'Oberster haubtman der fueszknecht', fol. 75v, cf. foll 24 - 27). On fol. 1v are the arms, party per pale, on the dexter side bendy sinister of six argent and gules, on the sinister side or an imperial eagle displayed sable dimidiated, for the German Empire: see also fol. 83.
Date
written in the 16th cent.
Language
German
Physical facet
On paper, with coloured drawings, binding: stamped brown leather, with brass fastening, contemporary German work
Physical extent
85 Leaves
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Collection contents
A treatise of German military organization
