For the Love of Color

[hsifeng]

From the lovely landsknecht.org, we have this link to the color scan of the Trachtenbuch des Matthäus Schwarz aus Augsburg, 1520 - 1560. Or, "the Schwarz Trachtenbuch" as it is often called on this side of the pond.

I have a French reprint of this book in my collection at home, in color. Not all of the images in this online version seem as vibrant as that copy portrays them, but this version does include a number of images that my at-home copy does not.

*claps hands in glee and goes off to explore*

Comments

[love3angle.livejournal.com]

ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh

[hsifeng.livejournal.com]

I know, right? The color combinations alone...

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

The French edition is a (IIRC) a 17th or 18th c copy of the Schwarz trachtenbuch. The book at the link is the original, and darn it! I want a museum catalog of that exhibition!

[hsifeng.livejournal.com]

Parcing the French in the Bibliography (badly, I might add - my last French class was over ten years ago and I haven't been keeping up) it appears that you may be correct. Although it is hard to tell because the page in question seems to list all the extant versions of the text (original through all copies), so I am not sure what they are conveying exactly.

*makes annoyed face*

Damnit. I need to get back to reading French.

[jillwheezul.livejournal.com]

Total Squee!

[hsifeng.livejournal.com]

I tell you, I am the reposting CHAMPION these days. ;)