Album amicorum of Matthias Olhan
- Production
- [Vienna], [1588–1618]
- Physical description
- 1 volume ; 19 x 13 cm
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| Call number | Note | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MSS CODEX 1474 |
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Olhan, Matthias.
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- Viennese and Southern German friendship album from the late 16th and early 17th century. German manuscript on paper. 40 ff. (1 folding) with 46 coats of arms in colours and gilt, mostly full page. Most of the entries are from Vienna, and a few others from Augsburg, Komorn (Komárom), Raab (Györ), and Regensburg. The names of the contributors and their arms are almost exclusively those of commoners, many of which were probably colleagues of Ölhans, including Ahaim, Dietl, Mardl, Perleb, Perschaw, Rittersdorffer, Schoenberg, and Zaiminger, but also the Barons Bartholomaeus and Paul zu Egkh und Hungersbach as well as the noble family of Wolzogen. Near the end the album contains a curious allegorical drawing captioned in Italian. Of great interest for the history of commoners’ heraldry. [Adapted from dealer description]
Subjects
Bibliographic information
- Earliest date
- 1588
- Latest date
- 1618
- Note
- Binding: Later blindstamped pigskin binding, using 17th-century covers
- Access
- Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use
- Cite as
- Matthias Olhan Viennese and Southern Germany friendship album, (MSS CODEX 1474). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California
- Terms
- There are no restrictions on use of public domain materials
- Source
- Puprchase, 2022. Accession 2022-364
- Note
- The owner, Matthias Ölhans (Öhlhannß), was a civil servant at the Viennese Aulic War Council: in an entry from 1597 he is referred to as “Imperial War Secretary”; the Nobility Archives of the Empire (today part of the Austrian State Archives’ Allgemeines Verwaltungsarchiv) cite him in 1604 as administrator of the Viennese Armoury (OeStA/AVA Adel RAA 299.13, family arms: a lion rampant holding an olive twig in his claws). [Adapted from dealer description]
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