University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1137

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DS ID:

DS940

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1137

Title:

Malefitzsachen veindlicher Bekhanntnusser ingefangen den 30 Maii anno 1572 ... etc..

Place:

Vienna

Vienna TGN

Date:

1572-1574.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

German

German WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 240 leaves : paper ; 295 x 194 mm bound to 298 x 210 mm

Note:

Title from cover.
Origin: Written in Vienna from 1572 to 1574 (f. 234r).
Script: Written in a German cursive script, possibly by multiple hands.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, rebound (Zacour-Hirsch), with partially intact leather ties.
Decoration: Rubrics often written in a more formal book script; initials of paragraphs usually with pen flourishes.
Foliation: Paper, i (later paper) + 240 + i (later paper); [3-9], 10-92, [i], 93-234, [235-241]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Folios 1-2 are missing; occasionally numbers have been lost or are not legible.
Layout: Written in 2 columns, with wider right column containing main text, and left column reserved for rubrics, signatures, notes on outcomes, insertions, and corrections.
Ms. codex.
Sold by Gsellius (Berlin), 1962.

Keyword:

petitions

Manuscripts, German

Manuscripts, Renaissance

testimonies

legal documents

codices (bound manuscripts)

Austria--Vienna

Europe

Peasant uprisings

Criminal courts

History

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9942717723503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p33x83q3c/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania