Master of the Berlin Herpin manuscript
As of the Berlin Herpin manuscript is late medieval draftsman designated to a manuscript of the history of Duke Herpin of Burges and his son was provided with 175 ink drawings and 72 initials. The manuscript , created in the 15th century, describes the legendary life of Herpin , a French nobleman and crusader of the 11th century, and is now in the Berlin State Library . It is one of the surviving copies of the Chanson de geste Herpin, which was translated into German by Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken around 1437 based on a French manuscript .
The master of the Berlin Herpin manuscript, not known by name , was only able to complete the illustrations of the 426 pages of the first half of the manuscript. On the following 460 pages, 65 pages have been left blank and some have been provided with preliminary drawings, but probably not provided with illustrations and completed for lack of time, money or other reasons. However, today this gives an insight into how illustrators worked in the Middle Ages.
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. on the number of drawings: William W. Kibler, Jean-Louis G. Picherit, Thelma S. Fenster (eds.): Lion de Bourges. Poème épique du XIVe siècle (= Textes Littéraires Français. Vol. 285, ISSN 0257-4063 ). Volume 1. Droz, Geneva 1980, Introduction (French).
- ↑ ms. germ. Fol. 464
- ^ Retelling by Karl Simrock : The German People's Books . Volume 11. Brönner, Frankfurt am Main 1865, pp. 214–445: Herzog Herpin.
- ↑ Ignaz Beth : Pen-and-ink drawings of the Herpin manuscript in the K. Library in Berlin. In: Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Art Collections. Vol. 29, 1908, ISSN 1431-5955 , pp. 264-275.