20-10-2026, 10:20 PM
I would like to add something about the Libellus dialogorum latinus pro instruendo Maximiliano I., which was suggested here as a partial match for the marginalia script, dated to circa 1465 as a teaching text for the young Maximilian.
The ÖNB catalogue (Cod. Ser. n. 18107) lists it as a 19th-century forgery by Georg Zappert (1806–1859), following Heinrich Fichtenau. The record also notes that it was sold to the Hofbibliothek by the Viennese antiquarian Schratt in 1858 (Gottlieb, Ambras, 1900, p. 137).
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The letterforms are a clever imitation of 15th-century cursive, so the resemblance noted here is real, but the manuscript itself ought not to be used as a comparison for the marginalia.
The ÖNB catalogue (Cod. Ser. n. 18107) lists it as a 19th-century forgery by Georg Zappert (1806–1859), following Heinrich Fichtenau. The record also notes that it was sold to the Hofbibliothek by the Viennese antiquarian Schratt in 1858 (Gottlieb, Ambras, 1900, p. 137).
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The letterforms are a clever imitation of 15th-century cursive, so the resemblance noted here is real, but the manuscript itself ought not to be used as a comparison for the marginalia.