Wiener musterbuches
Contributors: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Kunstkammer; Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Kunstkammer
Publisher: Verlag Mueller und Schindler
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Simmbach am Inn
Language: ger
Number of pages: 14
ISBN-13: 9783875604108
Subjects: European Pen drawing; Facsimiles; Pattern books; European Portraits; Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Kunstkammer
Other titles: Vienna pattern book; Wiener musterbuch
Notes: Title from colophon.

Facsimile of the originals, inventory numbers KK5003 and KK 5004, held in the Kunstkammer des Kunsthistorischen Museums in Vienna.

Fifty six pen drawings created on greenish paper, heightened in white and red and mounted on foldable wooden tablets. Housed in a replica of the richly blind-tooled leather case.

The commentary was written by Dr. Maria Theisen from the Commission for Palaeography and Codicology of Manuscripts at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and researcher at the Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna. In the appendix, Prof. Dr. Eberhard König explains the significance and role that model books played in medieval art.

Commentary volume includes bibliographical references.