!!!Beutelbücher

Pouch Books (purse books, German: Beutelbuecher), "pocket books" of 
the 15%%sup th/% /16%%sup th/%  centuries; their covers were 
lengthened into a purse-like construction which could be attached to a 
belt; one of the 17 such books that have survived is kept at 
Kremsmuenster monastery. In Austria, there are seven surviving works 
of art which show such pouch books (e.g. St. Matthew at the cathedral 
of Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, and St. John at the parish church 
of Poeggstall, Lower Austria).

!Literature
L. and H. Alker, Das Beutelbuch in der bildenden Kunst, 
1966.


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