i6 CHARACTER OF SCHEMBART MSS
where the text for 1507 (f. 195V) contains the note: "Jnn diesem
Schdmbarth bin Jch Panngratz Bernhaupt auch geloffen, doch
niemandts bekandt." The name of "Pankraz Bernhaupt" occurs,
with variations in spelling, in several other MSS.35 MS No. 60
adds a further notation of the name in the remarks regarding the
participation in the skirmish: "Mir Pancratzen Bernhaubt alls
der auch in diesem Schembart, doch unbekandter weiB gelauffen,
wurdt auch ein guter Puff auf meine Achsel."36 Hampe suggested
that "Pankraz Bernhaupt" was identical with Pankraz Bernhaupt
Schwenter,37 a chronicler of the Sixteenth Century and a friend of
Peter Vischer the younger; this suggestion seems well borne out
by the facts of his life.38
Schwenter (1481-1555) was the official "Lader" for the Nurem-
berg Rat, or master of ceremonies; from I522(?) to 1539 he
officiated particularly at the dances, weddings, and funerals of
the patricians, and made his own notes of these affairs.39 After
1539 he came into even closer contact with the Rat, as their
"Hauswirt" at the Rathaus. After he was dismissed in 1547 he
devoted most of his time until his death to poetry and historical
studies, the latter consisting of the writing and compilation of
chronicles.40 In these his chief interest, as one would expect, was
in cultural events rather than political, e.g., a shooting match
held in Nuremberg in 1522.41 Most of this material he copied or
had copied by scribes, often inserting marginal notes of his own
and furnishing the text with illustrations. Whether the miniatures
in the chronicles were by his own hand cannot be determined,42
although Johann Neuddrfer in his Nackrichten von Niirnberger

35 Cf. MSS Nos. 29 (Pt. III, f. 24), 35, 45 (f. 423), 61 (f. 565); in the latter
the name is given as "Pancraz Bernhardt."

36 Cf. Briiggemann (Mitt.) p. 8.

37 Cf. ibid., p. 7.

38 I follow the article by Alfred Bauch: "Pankraz Schwenter, der Freund Peter
Vischers des Jiingeren," Mitteilungen des Vereins fur Geschichte der Stadt Nurnberg,
1899, Heft 13, 276-285. Schwenters portrait, made in 1542, was discovered by
Hampe, cf. ibid, p. 277; it bears the following signature: "Der gestalt und rustung
pin ich Pangratz Bernhaubt, Schwenter benant."

39 These notes he entered in his "Hochzeitbiichlein der Erbaren in Nurnberg"
(1462-1554), now MS 512, Staatsarchiv Niirnberg, cf. ibid., p. 278.

40 Cf. Chroniken, II, 115; III, 26; X, iiof.

41 Cf. Bauch, op. cit., p. 283.

42 Ibid., p. 285.