Eton Codex
The Eton Codex is a three-volume manuscript that was written around 1541 by Hans Tirol from Augsburg . It was dedicated to the English King Henry VIII and is now in the library of Eton College .
The codex was created in the workshop of the Augsburg painter Jörg Breu the Younger . A less extensive version of the work from 1547, which was dedicated to the Spanish King Philip II , the Escorial Codex , is in the Spanish Escorial .
content
The three-volume work is written in Latin and German. The first volume contains an imperial chronicle that begins with Gaius Iulius Caesar and ends with Charles V and Ferdinand I. The second volume introduces European ruling houses. The third volume contains a tournament book with more than 2000 coats of arms.
literature
- Christoph Emmendörffer, Helmut Zäh (Hrsg.): Citizen power & book splendor . The Magnificent Augsburg Codices in Eton and in the Escorial . Wißner-Verlag, Augsburg 2011. ISBN 978-3-89639-812-3 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name in the Maximilian Museum Augsburg from March 18 to June 19, 2011).