Manuscript codex. This version, which contains significant variations, is probably of Austrian provenance (Kisch, pp. 762-763) Written in two columns of 31 lines (20.5 x 7 cm.; columns ruled in ink) Pen and ink drawing of Jesus with a crown of thorns (front pastedown) Accompanying materials: 4 leaves containing Guido Kisch's report on this manuscript, Zeits. der Savigny-stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte lvii, abt. 1937, pp. 762-764, in a separate envelope. Written in black ink; headings and numbering in red ink Final date (1511) from end of text (fol. 202v): & Deo gratias ivxi (Kisch, p. 762, claims this date is a late addition, and dates the text to [14--]) Fol. 9-64 foliated 1-56 in contemporary roman numerals; 65-161, 1-98 (98 appears on 161v, fol. 162 unnumbered) in contemporary roman numerals; 163-202, 1-38 in contemporary roman numerals. "Identisch mit Nr. 898 in Homeyers Verzeichnis der deutschen Rechtsbücher des Mittelalters, neue Aus., Weimar 1931-1934 ... sie in der Imhoff-Ebnerschen Bibliothek in Nürnburg (I124) gewesen und im Jahre 1816 ... veräussert worden ist" (Kisch, p. 763 f.) Kisch summarized the history of Schw. and the contributions it makes to Medieval Jewry law in several places, among them: Jewry law in medieval Germany (NY, 1949) 54 fol. and The Jews in medieval Germany (Chicago, 1949) 38 fol. Kisch, op. cit., p. 762, refers to Alexander Marx' description of Schw. to appear in K.'s "Manuscripts of of German law-books in America" (which may never have been published?) Former shelfmark: Imhoff-Ebnersch Bibliothek in Nürnburg, I124. Sulzberger, Mayer, library. Shelfmark: New York, The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary, MS NH93. Digitization funded by the Dr. Georgette Bennett and Dr. Leonard Polonsky Digitization Project.
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