Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien, Bd. 21 (2019)

On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Emperor Maximilian I’s death, the current volume of the yearbook of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna is devoted to the largest tournament book of the late Middle Ages. The Freydal is one of those works that Maximilian I. created to preserve his memory has so far received less attention than other memorial works, and an international research team has now examined it more closely. The contributions to the volume deal with the history of the book’s creation, the artists involved and the types of tournaments presented. One article is devoted to the paleographic analysis of the emperor’s handwriting, but focuses on the previously largely unknown drawings in Rome and Washington D.C. They represent an essential enrichment of our knowledge of the genesis of Freydal and thus also that of Maximilian I’s memory as a whole.