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.Karl Bosl (ed.)
''Bosls Bayerische Biographie''
(Munich: Friedrich Puster, 1983), p. 577. There he served as ''

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'', chorister, organist and teacher of music. He also worked as a manuscript illustrator at Tegernsee and at

Andechs Abbey Andechs Abbey is a Benedictine priory in the municipality of Andechs, in the ''Landkreis'' of Starnberg, Upper Bavaria, Germany . A place of pilgrimage on a hill east of the Ammersee, the Abbey is famed for its flamboyant Baroque church and its ...

. His illustrations are of high quality. In 1458 he went on a pilgrimage to the

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, departing from

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. He wrote a conventional description of Jerusalem and the

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. 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.R. J. Mitchell, ''The Spring Voyage: The Jerusalem Pilgrimage in 1458'' (London: Readers Union, 1965), pp. 64 & 189–190.

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{{reflist 1465 deaths People of medieval Bavaria German Benedictines Manuscript illuminators Choristers Holy Land travellers German travel writers