Useful books from my shelf

Theese are all books from my bookshelf that I have found useful in my research.
The list is far from complete since I have aquired many books lately and I haven’t updated this list for a very long time.
I will try to get to it soon though!

The books are devided into categories so that you can find your way amog them a bit easier.

Life in the 16:th Century (Ger & Swe) (general):

Magdalena and  Balthazar – Steven Ozment – ISBN 0-671-62440-7
Borgmästarens dotter (The Bürgmeisters daughter) – Steven Ozment – ISBN 91-27-08139-7
Kropp och ande (Flesh and spirit) – Steven Ozment – ISBN 91-27-08113-3
Dagligt liv i Norden på 1500-talet (14 books in 7 tomes) – Fredrik Troels-Lund – Albert Bonniers förlag
Before the Mast: Life and death Aboard the Mary Rose – J. Gardiner & M J. Allen

Landsknecht life:

Memoirs of a Mercenary – Master Johann Diets, translated by Bernard Miall – The Folio Society 1987
Landsknechte und Reisläufer: Bilder vom Soldaten – Matthias Rogg – ISBN 3-506-74474-7
Landsknechte – Reinhard Baumann – ISBN 3-406-379710
Kartenspeilbuch – Jost Amman – Facsimile reproduction, München 1880
Das Ständebuch – Jost Amman – Facsimile – Insel-Bücherei 133
Armies of the German Peasants’ War 1524-26 – Douglas Miller – Ospery Publishing ISBN 1-84176-507-4
The Landsknechts – Douglas Miller – Osprey Men-At-Arms Series – ISBN 0-85045-258-9
Landsknecht Soldier 1486–1560 – John Richards – Osprey Publishing – ISBN 1-84176-243-1
Pavia 1525 – Angus Konstam – Osprey Publishing – ISBN 1-85532-504-7
Landsknechte, Soldatenfrauen und Nationalkrieger
– Karen Hagenmann, Ralf Pröve – ISBN 3-593-36101-9
Dirnen Krieger Narren Ausgewählte Zeichnungen von Urs Graf
– Christiane Andersson – GS-Verlag
Sprichwörter (gesammelt bis 1541 von Sebastian Franck aus Wörth)
– ISBN-3-403-03417-8
Die Anfänge der Artillerie
– Dorothea Goetz – Militärverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik


Sources for Landsknecht garb:

Textiler Hausrat – Kleidung und Haustektilien in Nürnberg von 1500–1650 – Jutta Zander-Seidel – ISBN 3422007601
Gustav II Adolf vid Lützen
– Rudolf Cederström – Livrustkammarstiftelsen 1944
Dagligt liv i Norden på 1500-talet (4:th book, 2:nd tome) – Fredrik Troels-Lund – Albert Bonniers förlag
The Tudor Tailor – N. Mikhaila & J. Malcolm-Davies – ISBN 10 0713489855 or 13 9780713489859
Dressing Renaissance Florence – Carole Collier Frick – ISBN 0 8018 6939 0
Beginner’s Guide to Blackwork – Lesley Wilkins – ISBN 0 85532 937 8
Why call it Blackwork? – Marion Scoular – No ISBN
Needlework Patterns from Renaissance Germany – Katheryn Newall
Stureskjortorna – Livrustkammaren Vol IV: 8–9 – artikel av Anna-Maja Nyhlén
Moda a Firenze 1540-1580 – R. Orsi Landini & Bruna Niccoli – ISBN 88-8304-867-9
Lucet Braiding – variations on a renaissance cord – Elaine Fuller – ISBN 189165606-6
Handbook of Costume – Janet Arnold – ISBN 333 12481 2
The German Single Leaf Woodcut 1500-1550 – Max Giesberg – ISBN 08-7817-125-8
Archeologia historica 19/94 - Textilie z hrobu Anny Jagellonské – M. Bravermanova, J. Kobrolova, A. Samohylova
Blackwork – Mary Gostelow – ISBN 0-486-40178-2
An introduction to Blackwork – Complete Anachronist 31 – Printed by The Society for Creative Anachronism
Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII
- Maria Hayward
Zwei
Schauben aus dem Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München – Johannes Pietsch – ISBN 3-935643-15-2
Bands from Hans Hofer’s New Formbuch’len Augsberg 1545
– Linn R. Skinner
A New little Pattern book of Peter Quentel
– Linn R. Skinner
German Renaissance Patterns for Embroidery
(a facsimile copy of Nicolas Bassée’s new modelbuch of 1568 – ISBN 0-9633331-4-3
Urs Graf
– Emil Major und Erwin Gradmann – Prestel-Verlag K.G. München
Hans Holbein
– Stephanie Buck – ISBN 3-8290-2583-1

Other garb sources:

Metal thread embroidery – Jane Lemon – ISBN 0-7134-8926-X The Medieval talior’s assistant – Sarah Thursfield – ISBN 0-89676-239-4
Purses in Pieces: Archaeological Finds of Late Medieval and 16th Century Leather Purses, Pouches, Bags and Cases in the Netherlands
Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince
– Stella Mary Newton
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 1–6
Klær og formspråk i norsk middelalder
– Marianne VedelerSkoboken – tio modeller från vikingatid till medeltid
Drottning Margaretas gyllene kjortel i Uppsala domkyrka
– Agnes Geijer
Textiles and Clothing 1150-1450
– Elisabeth Crowfoot
Woven into the earth
– Else Østergård.
Kläderna och människan i medeltidens Sverige och Norge
– Eva Andersson
Purses in Pieces
– Olaf Goubitz
M
edieval Dress and Fashion – Margaret Scott – ISBN 0-7123-0675-7
The Cambridge History of Western Textiles (vol.1-2)
– Edited by Jenkins – ISBN 0-521-34107-8
Viking clothing
– Thor Ewing – ISBN 978-0-7524-3587-9


Illuminations and Calligraphy:

Meisterwerke im J.Paul Getty Museum – Illuminierte handschriften – ISBN 0 89236 452 1
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts – Christopher de Hamel – ISBN 0 7148 3452 1
Illuminated Manuscripts – Treasures of the Pierpont Morgan Library – ISBN 07892 0216 6
Western European illuminated Manuscript – T.Voronova & A. Sterlingov – ISBN 0 86288 584 1
Medival Calligraphy It’s History and Technique – Marc Drogin – ISBN 0 486 26142 5
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves – ISBN  08076 1492 0
The Craftsman’s Handbook ”Il Libro dell’ Arte”– Cennino d’Andrea Cennini – transl. David V. Thompson JR –
ISBN 0-486-20054-X


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