Details

Subjects:

Guilds -- Germany.
Guilds.
Germany.
Germany -- History -- Sources.
History.

Form/Genre:

Sources.
Codices.
Account books.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

German.

Summary:

Account book of unidentified guild, recording payment of annual dues ("Jahrschilling"; in at least one instance, the term "Wochen Pfennig" is used, f. 27r), by masters ("Maister") and apprentices ("Khnecht"), as well as expenditures, for every year from 1642 to 1661; an entry for 1662 is unfinished.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; date based on earliest date (f. 1r) and latest date (f. 47r) appearing in the item.
Collation: Paper, 46 (ff. 6-24 are blank); 1⁴⁸ (-37, torn out; 48 is pastedown); modern pencil foliation, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a German cursive hand.
Binding: Boards.
Origin: Written in Germany from 1642 through 1662.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Hugo Streisand (Berlin), 1953.

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. 78 (Ms. German 2).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1075.

OCLC:

181375942

Access Restriction:

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