Annals of the University of Ingolstadt

A detailed Gothic style engraving depicts the Virgin Mary seated on an ornate throne beneath a complex canopy with architectural tracery and decorative points. Mary wears a crown and a halo while cradling the infant Jesus. Two men kneel in prayer on either side of the throne. On the left is Duke Louis, the university founder, dressed in fur trimmed noble robes. A coat of arms featuring the Bavarian lozenges and a lion sits at his feet. On the right is Mendel, dressed in academic or clerical robes. The background contains dense, intricate leaf patterns. The entire scene is framed by a rectangular border with Gothic text at the bottom. This engraving was drawn by Johann Amandus Wink in Munich and engraved by Franz Xaver Jungwierth.

original: "Dux ludovicus fundator : Custosq3 mendel doctor prim' Recto". The "q3" is a scribal abbreviation for the Latin suffix "-que," meaning "and."

The figures depicted are Duke Louis IX of Bavaria, known as Louis the Rich, who founded the university in 1472, and Christopher Mendel von Steinfels, who served as the university's first rector.