Details

Subjects:

Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland (Netherlands) -- History.
Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland (Netherlands).
Dikes (Engineering) -- Netherlands -- History.
River engineering -- Netherlands -- History.
Sluices -- Netherlands -- History.
Privileges and immunities -- Netherlands.
Privileges and immunities.
Sluices.
History.
River engineering.
Dikes (Engineering).
Rijnland (Netherlands).
Netherlands.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Legal instruments.
Manuscripts, Dutch.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Dutch, with some earlier document texts in Middle Dutch and one text in Latin.

Summary:

Copies of privileges, letters, and confirmations concerning the Heemrad van Rijnland, the water board in charge of canals, dikes, and sluices for the region of the Netherlands containing Amsterdam, the Hague, and Gouda. The source documents, each with an introductory paragraph, date from the 13th through the 17th centuries.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, iii + 112 + ii; 1-14⁸; [1-112]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Introductory paragraphs written in shorter lines, with a wide left margin; document copies written in 27 long lines.
Script: Written in two different scripts used for introductions and document copies.
Binding: Contemporary calf with gilt arms of Rijnland on upper and lower covers (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Probably written in Leiden, early 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Bookplate in color with coat of arms (f. 1v): Dr. H.T. Habbema van Nieuwveen en Uiterbuurt; stamp with some elements of the bookplate coat of arms (f. 1v): Ambachtsheerlijke 10, Nieuwveen Rijnl.
Purchased, 1961.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 48 (Ms. Dutch 3).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 984.

OCLC:

155928999

Access Restriction:

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