Amerbach Cabinet

[1] A central piece of the cabinet included the heritage of the Christian scholar Erasmus von Rotterdam[2] for which Bonifacius had commissioned a trunk in 1539.

[3] The collection included paintings, sketches, medallions, rare coins, the letters of the Amerbach family, and a library of 9000 books.

[5] The cabinet included an extensive collection of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger, which Basilius seemed to have acquired in the late 1570s.

[6] Works by Urs Graf, Hans Baldung Grien, and Niklaus Manuel Deutsch where also included in the cabinet.

[2] In 1671 the cabinet moved into the House zur Mücke [de], where the collection initially was open to the public every Thursday afternoon, later on two days a week.