BSB cod. icon. 326

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Codex iconographicus monacensis 236 (BSB cod. icon. 326) is an armorial of the coats of arms of the attendants of the imperial diet of 1594 at Regensburg (formerly Regensburg city library, Rat. civ. 252) Rudolf II in 1594 declared Regensburg would be the sole location where imperial diets were to be held in the future.

The codex consists of paper folia measuring 22.5⨯16 cm with 48 non-empty pages. It contains a total of 84 coats of arms, mostly the personal or family arms of princes, with some clerical arms and ten city arms. The coats of arms are arranged by the accommodation of the bearers in Regensburg's eight city districts (Wachten).

1r Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg

5v Philipe de Croÿ, Duke of Aerschot

6r – 12v Ostner Wacht

13r – 15v Wildwercher Wacht

16r – 21v Wittwanger Wacht

22r – 24r Westner Wacht

25r – 37r Scherer Wacht

25r Archbishop-Elector of Mainz Wolfgang von Dalberg

38r – 44v Quartier in der Pauluser Wacht

42v John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg

44r Johann Georg, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen

44v Philipp Ludwig II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

45r – 47v Donauwacht

45r Christian IV of Denmark

47v arms of the city of Nördlingen represented by city councillor Thomas Dithey und advocate Sebastian Rattinger

48r Wahlenwacht; arms of the duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg

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