Jehan Schemel Von Russthumblen (Tournament)

Copied by Friedrich Otto von Leber Austrian

dated 1838

Not on view

This is a nineteenth-century copy of a sixteenth-century manuscript illustrating the equipment required for various forms of the tournament as practiced in Germany and Austria during the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Three contemporary copies, probably all made about 1550–70 by the Augsburg painter Jeremias Schem(m)el, survive today in the collections of the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel and in the Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, respectively. The Metropolitan Museum’s example was copied from the Vienna manuscript in 1838, then part of the Habsburg collections at Ambras Castle, by Friedrich Otto von Leber (1803-1846), an early Austrian scholar of arms and armor.

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Title: Jehan Schemel Von Russthumblen (Tournament)
Maker: Copied by Friedrich Otto von Leber
Author: Jeremias Schemmel (German, active Augsburg, ca. 1550–70)
Date: dated 1838
Culture: Austrian
Medium: Paper
Dimensions: H. 18 3/4 in. (47.6 cm); W. 13 1/2 in. (34.2 cm)
Classification: Books & Manuscripts
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1923
Object Number: 23.279
Curatorial Department: Arms and Armor

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