The intricately-designed metal clasps from the book's original Renaissance binding are still functioning, nearly five centuries later.
Nearly five centuries old, the book remains in its original pigskin binding over wooden boards, and retains both of its original metal clasps.
“Cette pièce provient des collections personnelles d’Adolf Hitler Berghof. Berchtesgaden 4-5-1945. Pour authentification.” “This item comes from the personal collections of Adolf Hitler, Berghof. Berchtesgaden, 4 May 1945. For authentication.” O
Printed in 1568, the book predates Galileo’s discoveries and the Spanish Armada, and lived through the final centuries of the Holy Roman Empire.
Original sixteenth-century pigskin binding, decorated with intricate blind-stamped Renaissance panels.
The title page of Pantaleon's Teutscher Nation Heldenbuch , printed in 1568 and dedicated to recording the lives of notable figures from German history.
Frederick Barbarossa (1122–1190) Frederick I "Barbarossa" receives one of the longest biographies in the volume. Pantaleon describes him as an ideal ruler – brave, just and capable of uniting a divided empire. In 1941, Hitler invoked his mythical
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