The original version of the Schwartz costume book

As an update to the entry the other day, here are the Bildindex links to the Matthais Schwartz childhood pictures from Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum original version of Matthais's costume book 

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[As always with Bildindex, to see the super large size picture, replace the b at the end with an a]

Birth of Matthaus Schwartz, 1497

Coma at age two and sick at age three

Learning his alphabet at age 5

Herding cows and working for the farmers

Playing in the street and saying Mass in his bedroom with his own little altar

Entering Saint Moritz school and trampling his school books

Sampling the wine


These next pictures are from the life of (I believe) his son Conrad and start in the 1540's
1542 - Toddlers at play

1548-1549 Boys playing in the street

1551 Winter games and a snow ball fight