Title: Coll. 170. MS. 351. Schoenbartbuch (Nürenberg Carnival Book).

Alttitle: Schempart Buech : darin zu finden in was Klaidtung und Manir die Geselschafften sein ausz gelauffen zu Fassnacht zeiten von 1449 Jar an bis auf 1539 und was sich in einem jeden Jar begeben hatt auch der Meserer und Menschen dann. [Uniform]

Date XVIex [Creation]; 1590/1620 [Normalized]

Description: Acquired from H.P. Kraus in 1961, as a gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation [Note]

Binding: bound in original 17th-century German leather over paper boards; concentric decorative (outer) and double ruled (inner) borders, with gilt corner-pieces; center gilt lozenge, with gilt pomegrante ornament at each corner; oval medallion in center of lozenge contains gilt stamp of a young black man (also pictured in the Schedel painted bookplate on front pastedown) holding a chalice and sword; four pairs of green silk ties, two along fore-edges, one each at upper and lower edges; spine divided by five raised double bands into six compartments (top one is missing), each with gilt-stamped fleur-de-lis ornament within floral border. The stamp and border match those on Ms. Nor. K. 444 in the Nuremberg Stadtbibliothek. [Abstract]

Publisher: Nürnberg, Germany [Place Of Origin]