The Legacy of Dowager Empress Wilhelmina Amalia (1673-1742): “In der und ausser der Clausur” - [Transkription]

This transcription was prepared for the 2017 publication of my contribution to Helga Penz (ed.), 300 Jahre Kloster der Heimsuchung Mariens in Wien 1717-2017 (Petersberg, 2017), but was too lengthy to appear in print. Hence, its publication via Art-Dok will make the contents of the Nachlass of the Dowager Empress Wilhelmine Amalie (1673-1742) easily available to researchers whose interests encompass works of art and religious devotion as well as material culture and patterns of collecting and display. The inventory was bound into a Testament of over 400 pages which is found in the Sächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden because her eldest daughter, Queen Maria Josepha (1699-1757) was executrix of the estate; the Testament has been scanned and can be viewed online at: https://www.archiv.sachsen.de. A comparable archival document is not found in Vienna today.