Anton Pelchinger (died 18 September 1465) was a Bavarian Benedictine monk, artist and writer. He was born at Hofen, near Bad Aibling. He entered Tegernsee Abbey in 1442.[1] There he served as Kapellmeister, chorister, organist and teacher of music.[2] He also worked as a manuscript illustrator at Tegernsee and at Andechs Abbey. His illustrations are of high quality.[1] In 1458 he went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, departing from Venice. He wrote a conventional description of Jerusalem and the Christian holy places.[a] He does not include any personal details, but identifies himself as a professor of Tegernsee. One manuscript of this work is in the Austrian National Library in Vienna (no. 3012) and there may be another in the Bavarian State Library in Munich.[3]
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- ^ 197 pilgrims in two ships departed Venice at this time. Six of them wrote accounts: Pelchinger, William Wey, Roberto da Sanseverino, Gabriele Capodilista, Giovanni Matteo Butigella and an anonymous Dutchman.
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- ^ a b Karl Bosl (ed.), Bosls Bayerische Biographie (Munich: Friedrich Puster, 1983), p. 577.
- ^ Pelchinger, Anton, in Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online.
- ^ R. J. Mitchell, The Spring Voyage: The Jerusalem Pilgrimage in 1458 (London: Readers Union, 1965), pp. 64 & 189–190.