Thurnier Buch, warhafftiger ritterlicher Thate : so in dem Monat Junij des vergangnen LX. Jars in vnd ausserhalb der Statt Wienn zu Ross vnd zu Fuess, auff Wasser vnd Lannd gehalten worden, mit schönen Figuren contrafeet : vnd dem Allerdurchleuchtigisten, Grossmechtigisten Fürsten vnnd Herrn, Herren Ferdinando, erweltem Römischen Kayser ...
A 1561 German tournament book printed in Vienna by Raphael Hofhalter, recording a June 1560 jousting and riding festival held in and around Vienna for Emperor Ferdinand I, with text by Hans von Francolin and figures by Hans Sebald Lautensack. The four pictures are oval and shield-shaped heraldic arms with helms, crests and mantling, drawn in fine black line on plain paper. A designer could take from them the compact vocabulary of early modern German coats of arms, with their crowned helmets, scrolled cartouches and layered crests.




































































