Detail View: The AMICA Library: Tournament Book

AMICA ID: 
MMA_.22.229
AMICA Library Year: 
2000
Object Type: 
Books
Creator Nationality: 
European; Northern European; German
Creator Name-CRT: 
German (Nuremberg)
Title: 
Tournament Book
Title Type: 
Object name
View: 
Page 68
Creation Date: 
late 16th century
Creation Start Date: 
1566
Creation End Date: 
1599
Materials and Techniques: 
Pen and colored wash on paper
Classification Term: 
Manuscripts
Dimensions: 
unmeasured
AMICA Contributor: 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: 
New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 
22.229
Credit Line: 
Rogers Fund, 1922
Rights: 
Context: 

This book records a series of jousts held in Nuremberg between 1446 and 1561. The participants, whose names are written above the figures, are armed for the 'Gestech,' the joust fought with blunt lances. Such books provide an invaluable record of the colorful costumes, fanciful crests, and humorous, often satirical, emblems that embellished the jousters' shields and horse's trappings.

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