page_title: Rudolf von Ems
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Rudolf von Ems / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Wilhelm von Orlens Place of origin, date: Hagenau (Alsace), Workshop of Diebold Lauber (illuminator); c. 1450-1470 Material: Paper, ff. 383, 285x212 (185x100) mm, 24 lines, littera cursiva. German. Binding: 18th-century brown leather, gilt, with coat of arms of Stadtholder William V Decoration: 39 coloured drawings, unframed (245/145x200x160 mm); 1 decorative opening page (f. 11r) Provenance: Catharina of Austria (1420-1493); by inheritance to her daughter Zimborg of Baden (1450-1501), wife of Count Engelbert II of Nassau (d. 1504); by legacy to the Counts of Nassau and Princes of Orange, the later Stadholders, at The Hague; transfered in 1798
context_page_description: Rudolf von Ems, also called in English Rudolf of Ems, was a medieval Austrian epic poet.
context_section_description: Of his surviving works, the tale Der gute Gerhard (Gerhard the Good) is the oldest and also the best regarded, a depiction of Christian humility, probably based on a Latin source.
  This was followed by Barlaam and Josaphat, dating from approximately 1225 to 1230, taken from a Latin translation of a Greek version of the story of the conversion of an Indian prince to Christianity (a story which is believed in fact to be that of the Buddha, at many removes); and by Wilhelm von Orlens, the story of the childhood love of Willehalm and Amelie, who are among the most famous lovers of the Middle Ages.
  His Alexanderroman (Romance of Alexander), written about 1240, is a fragment. In 21,000 verses the upbringing and battles of Alexander are depicted, in which the hero is a model of knightly virtue. Rudolf's sources for this work were principally the Historia de preliis and the Historiae Alexandri Magni of Curtius Rufus.
  The Chronicle of the World (Weltchronik) is Rudolf's last work, dedicated to King Conrad IV. It narrates, as an addition to the Bible, the Historia scholastica of Petrus Comestor and the Pantheon of Godfrey of Viterbo, the history of the world from the creation up to the death of King Solomon, with the added motive of legitimizing the rule of the Hohenstaufen dynasty. As early as the 13th century this work was combined in many manuscripts with the Christherre-Chronik.
  A further work, Eustachius, is lost.
caption: Wilhelm von Orlens has a conversation with Princess Amelie
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