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[Wedding regulations]

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3ws1c
Title: [Wedding regulations]
Date: 1511
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Codices, Laws (documents), Manuscripts, German, Manuscripts, Renaissance, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Sumptuary regulations for betrothals and weddings (Hochzeitsordnung) issued by the city of Nuremberg, covering such details as how the announcement of the engagement (Lautmerung) should be made; how much the musicians should be paid; what guests may be invited; and what kind of food and wine may be served. The form of the regulations given in the codex includes an amendment made in April 1511 (f. 7v). An amendment concerning the permissibility of the bridegroom giving the bride a maiden-ring worth 10 gulden, which became part of the code in or before 1526, has been written in subsequently, or as an afterthought, in a similar hand (f. 4r).
Extent: 20 leaves : parchment ; 225 x 170 (155 x 100-105) mm bound to 238 x 180 mm
Language: German
Note: Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloger., Collation: Parchment, 20; 1-2¹⁰; [1-20]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record., Layout: Written in 22-23 long lines., Script: Written in a German semi-cursive script by a single hand, with headings in a more formal book script with flourished initials., Binding: Contemporary stamped calf over wooden boards, rebacked (Zacour-Hirsch); upper cover detached., Origin: Written in Nuremberg after 1511. Dated 1509 (f. 1r, 7v), 1510 (f. 7v), and 1511 (f. 14r), with an amendment added in 1526 (f. 4r)., German.
Relation: Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3ws1c, Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/87/
Subject: Sumptuary laws -- Germany -- Nuremberg, Sumptuary laws
Geographic Subject: Germany -- Nuremberg
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1096
Provenance: Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1954.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9942483913503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3ws1c/manifest

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