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Des allerdurchleichtigsten vnnd vnüberwindlichsten Fürsten vund Herzen , hern Friderichen des dritten Roemischen Kaysers, vnd frawen Leonora, Künigin auf Portugal, vermächelunng vñ Kroenung zc. : darnach des allerdurchleüchtigisten vnd grossmechtigisten Fürsten vñ Herzen, herzn Maximilian Roemischen Künigs zc. vnd seiner maiestat Schwester, Kunigund genant, hochloblich gerburd zc.

Lanckmann, Nicolaus, active 15th century · 1503 · Augusta [Augsburg] : Durch mittel des erbern Jacob Wachters von Saltzburg Büchdruckers · 2 pictures

This 1503 German printed account by Nicolaus Lanckmann, issued at Augsburg by the printer Jacob Wachter, recounts the wedding and coronation of Emperor Frederick III and Eleonora of Portugal, and the later celebrations for Maximilian and his sister Kunigund, for a German-reading court and public. The two pages show decorated historiated initials and dense black-letter text in columns, with a large ornamental capital framed by foliage and an inscription block set in gothic type, offering a designer examples of early German woodcut-style initials and tightly justified blackletter page layout.

Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, 1415-1493 -- Coronation · Eleonore, Empress, consort of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, 1434-1467 -- Coronation · Coronations -- Italy -- Rome · Weddings -- Italy -- Rome · Royal visitors -- Italy · Holy Roman Empire -- History -- Frederick III, 1440-1493

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