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Bivision A.—Single JVoodcuts.
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(4) Other special saints, besides the Dominicans, whose feasts are recl-letter days
in the Kalendar, and who are invoked in the litanies, are patrons of the
diocese of Bamberg. They are as follows :
March 3.—St. Kunigunda, Empress.
April 23.—St. G-eorge.
July 13.—St. Henry, Emperor.
Sept. 9.—Translation of St. Kunigunda.
Sept. 30.—Sr. Otto, Bishop of Bamberg.
(5) Others again point specially to Nuremberg. These are as follows :
Aug. 10.—St. Lanrence (with octave).
Aug. 19.—St. Sebald.
June 15, SS. Vitus and Modestus; Sept. 1, St. iEgidius; Nov. 11,
St. Martin (with octave) are the other red-letter days of unusual occurrence.
Tliey may also be explained with reference to Nuremberg, where St. Vitus
was held in special honour, while St. iEgidius was patron of the Benedictine
Monastery, founded 1140, with which an older chapel of St. Martin was
incorporated.
Nuremberg, as a free town of the Empire, was not under the temporal
government of the Bishop of Bamberg, but appears to have been, for eccle-
siasticai purposes, in his diocese. 'Rettberg (“ Nurnberg’s Kunstleben,”
p. 44) mentions a window of 1394 with a portrait of a Bishop of Bamberg,
and (p. 99) describes a window of 1493-5 at St. Sebald’s, with SS. IJenry and
Kunigunda, Otto (?), Peter, Paul and George, and portraits of four bishops
of Bamberg. In 1519 we find the suffragan of the Bishop of Bamberg con-
secrating a chapel of St. Kunigunda in St. Lorenz Churchyard (Baader,
“ Beitrage zur Kunstgeschichte Niirnberg’s,” ii, 30).
(6) All the evidence points to the convent of St. Oalherine at Nuremberg, founded
by Conrad von Neumarkt (d. 1296), as the probable place of origin of the
MS. The convent was Dominican. 0. G. von Murr (“ Beschreibung der
Merkwiirdigkeiten in Niiruberg,” 1778, pp. 77-8) describes eight large
choir-books in the Town library, which were written by a nun of this
convent, Margareta Karthauserin, 1458-1470. Karthauserin is a surname,
and does not signify a Carthusian nun, for she adds after her signature
“ Zu nutz irem Kloster zu Sant Katlirein in Nurnperg Prediger Ordens,”
which sliows that she was a Dominican. The same nun wrote the Pars
sestivalis of a missal in the same library (1463), and the Pars hiemalis
jointlv witlr another nunofthe sarne convent, Margareta Imhof (1452). The
summer part of a breviary, written by Margareta Karthauserin for
this convent in 1452 is in the Klemm collection at Leipsic, no. 42. The
conjunction of names “ S (i.e. Scliwester) Margaretha Imhof und S.
Margaretha Kartheuserin zu nutz irem Kloster zu Sant Kathr. In nurnperg.
Prediger Ordens,” shows that Karthauserin, like Imliof, was a surname.1
C. G. von Murr (op. cit., pp. 290, 292) mentions altarpieces in the church of
St. Catherine, in wliich St. Dominic is introduced, in conjunction with St.
Catherine, and as a witness of four scenes of tlie Passion. This church was
the meeting place of tlie Meistersinger in the xvi cent., and the suppressed
convent itself was occupied by the Academy of Painters in 1699. It does
not appear that there was any convent of St. Catherine in Bamberg itself.
The Hospital of St. Catherine in tliat town was under a male superintendent
(Spitalmeister).
B. Date.
A terminus ante quem is afforded by tlie date of the canonisation of St.
Catherine of Siena, 1461. It is remarkable tliat in a book of devotion
written for Dominican nuns the name of this saint should not occur, either
1 Dr. W. Schmidt has described ( Zeitschr. f. Bild. Kunst, xix, 332) a MS. dated
1450 (in the possession of L. Itosenthal, Munich, in 1884), which was written in the
same Convent of St. Catherine at Nuremberg. The MS. contains 64(?) small cuts of
the life of the Virgin and of Christ, and 12(?) larger cuts of various sacred subjects.
They are on paper, aud were not originally part of tlie book, but were pasted in; space
was left for them in writing the MS., and they are, therefore, earlier than Oct., 1450.
Schr. has described these cuts under no. 46. He quotes the numbers as 57 (small)
and 11 (large). Tlie book is now in the Print Cabinet at Munich (Schr., vol. ii,
p. 373).
139
(4) Other special saints, besides the Dominicans, whose feasts are recl-letter days
in the Kalendar, and who are invoked in the litanies, are patrons of the
diocese of Bamberg. They are as follows :
March 3.—St. Kunigunda, Empress.
April 23.—St. G-eorge.
July 13.—St. Henry, Emperor.
Sept. 9.—Translation of St. Kunigunda.
Sept. 30.—Sr. Otto, Bishop of Bamberg.
(5) Others again point specially to Nuremberg. These are as follows :
Aug. 10.—St. Lanrence (with octave).
Aug. 19.—St. Sebald.
June 15, SS. Vitus and Modestus; Sept. 1, St. iEgidius; Nov. 11,
St. Martin (with octave) are the other red-letter days of unusual occurrence.
Tliey may also be explained with reference to Nuremberg, where St. Vitus
was held in special honour, while St. iEgidius was patron of the Benedictine
Monastery, founded 1140, with which an older chapel of St. Martin was
incorporated.
Nuremberg, as a free town of the Empire, was not under the temporal
government of the Bishop of Bamberg, but appears to have been, for eccle-
siasticai purposes, in his diocese. 'Rettberg (“ Nurnberg’s Kunstleben,”
p. 44) mentions a window of 1394 with a portrait of a Bishop of Bamberg,
and (p. 99) describes a window of 1493-5 at St. Sebald’s, with SS. IJenry and
Kunigunda, Otto (?), Peter, Paul and George, and portraits of four bishops
of Bamberg. In 1519 we find the suffragan of the Bishop of Bamberg con-
secrating a chapel of St. Kunigunda in St. Lorenz Churchyard (Baader,
“ Beitrage zur Kunstgeschichte Niirnberg’s,” ii, 30).
(6) All the evidence points to the convent of St. Oalherine at Nuremberg, founded
by Conrad von Neumarkt (d. 1296), as the probable place of origin of the
MS. The convent was Dominican. 0. G. von Murr (“ Beschreibung der
Merkwiirdigkeiten in Niiruberg,” 1778, pp. 77-8) describes eight large
choir-books in the Town library, which were written by a nun of this
convent, Margareta Karthauserin, 1458-1470. Karthauserin is a surname,
and does not signify a Carthusian nun, for she adds after her signature
“ Zu nutz irem Kloster zu Sant Katlirein in Nurnperg Prediger Ordens,”
which sliows that she was a Dominican. The same nun wrote the Pars
sestivalis of a missal in the same library (1463), and the Pars hiemalis
jointlv witlr another nunofthe sarne convent, Margareta Imhof (1452). The
summer part of a breviary, written by Margareta Karthauserin for
this convent in 1452 is in the Klemm collection at Leipsic, no. 42. The
conjunction of names “ S (i.e. Scliwester) Margaretha Imhof und S.
Margaretha Kartheuserin zu nutz irem Kloster zu Sant Kathr. In nurnperg.
Prediger Ordens,” shows that Karthauserin, like Imliof, was a surname.1
C. G. von Murr (op. cit., pp. 290, 292) mentions altarpieces in the church of
St. Catherine, in wliich St. Dominic is introduced, in conjunction with St.
Catherine, and as a witness of four scenes of tlie Passion. This church was
the meeting place of tlie Meistersinger in the xvi cent., and the suppressed
convent itself was occupied by the Academy of Painters in 1699. It does
not appear that there was any convent of St. Catherine in Bamberg itself.
The Hospital of St. Catherine in tliat town was under a male superintendent
(Spitalmeister).
B. Date.
A terminus ante quem is afforded by tlie date of the canonisation of St.
Catherine of Siena, 1461. It is remarkable tliat in a book of devotion
written for Dominican nuns the name of this saint should not occur, either
1 Dr. W. Schmidt has described ( Zeitschr. f. Bild. Kunst, xix, 332) a MS. dated
1450 (in the possession of L. Itosenthal, Munich, in 1884), which was written in the
same Convent of St. Catherine at Nuremberg. The MS. contains 64(?) small cuts of
the life of the Virgin and of Christ, and 12(?) larger cuts of various sacred subjects.
They are on paper, aud were not originally part of tlie book, but were pasted in; space
was left for them in writing the MS., and they are, therefore, earlier than Oct., 1450.
Schr. has described these cuts under no. 46. He quotes the numbers as 57 (small)
and 11 (large). Tlie book is now in the Print Cabinet at Munich (Schr., vol. ii,
p. 373).