Collection

Unbound manuscript on laid paper. Contents date between the years 1603 and 1680, with later additions. Contents include a portrait of Prince-Bishop Melchior Otto Voit von Salzburg (1653), hand-written chronicle of Bamberg bishops from 1042 to 1622, letter with wax seal (1812), index of contents (after 1937), inscription about Prince-Bishop Melchior Otto Voit von Salzburg (after 1653), 'Chronachische Ehren Cron' (1666), notes on Bamberg's history, sketches of bishops' seals (after 1833), and a genealogy of Saint Elisabeth von Thüringen (in French). Following these loose items is the major work, an unbound but gathered manuscript on the history of Bamberg from the life of Heinrich II to the year 1680. Includes works by authors Jacobi Gretseri (ca. 1611), Peter Isselbeurg (1623), and Joannes Cygneus (1603). Also includes portraits of Bamberg's bishops and their coats-of-arms, hand-drawn in pen, on folios 47r, 57r, 61r, 62r, 84r, 86r, 87r, 88r, 90r, 91r, 92r, 93r, 94r, 96r, 97r, 99r, 100r, 101r, 102v, 104r, 106r, 107r, 108r, 109r, 111r, 112r, 113r, 115r, 117r, 118r, 119r, 120r, 121r, 122r, 123r, 124r, 125r, 126r, 127r, 128r, 129r, 130r, 131r, 132r, 134r, 135r, 136r, 137r, 139r, 140r, 141r, 141v, 142r, 143r, 144r, 145r, 149r, 149v, 140r, 154r 155r, 157r, 160r, 162r, 162v, 183r, 187r, 225r, 231r, 232r, 239r, 258r, 260r, 262r, 263r, 264r, 265r, 271r, 292r, 296r, 299r, 301r, 303r, 307r, 310r, 319r, 326r, 328r, 330r, 340r, 346r, 349r, 370r, 371r, 378r, 379r, 380r, and 383r. Text is Latin and German./Fletcher, Stephanie, 2012.05.18