ID 1386563
Lot 46 | A wax tablet
Estimate value
€ 2 800 – 3 200
Beechwood tablets, parchment, wax. Inventory label "185". Damaged, one tablet loose.
Acht bogenförmig abschließende, zu einem Büchlein verbundene Holztafeln mit beschriebenen Pergament- und Wachstafeleinlagen. Lateinischer Text mit deutschen Einsprengseln in Minuskelschrift. Buchrücken mit ornamental geprägten Ledereinband.
Cf. for the wax tablets from the Polling Abbey:Wattenbach, Wilhelm, Das Schriftwesen im Mittelalter, Leipzig 1871, page 73Rockinger, Ludwig von: Zum baierischen Schriftwesen im Mittelalter 1. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Historische Klasse: Abhandlungen der Historischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 12,1. Munich 1872, pages 1-72, here: page 8f.Sighart, Joachim, Ein Wachstafelbuch aus dem Kloster Polling, in: Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, II. Classe, volume 9, II. Abtheilung. Munich 1864, pages 343-356 (on the wax tablet of the Bavarian National Museum).Büll, Reinhard, Das große Buch vom Wachs. Munich 1977, here: page 790Weniger, Matthias, Die Büchersammlung des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums und die Bibliothek des Martin Joseph von Reider, in: Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst Bd. 62. Munich 2011, pages 203-235, here: page 214
Provenienz: collection of Figdor number 185 - owned by the family since then.
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