Details

Subjects:

Court rules -- Czech Republic -- Moravia -- Early works to 1800.
Court rules.
Moravia (Czech Republic) -- History -- Sources.
Czech Republic -- Moravia.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Codices.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

German, with some passages or citations in Latin (f. 1v-2r, 3v, 4r-4v, 6r, 11v, 13v, 48r, 61v, 62r, 68v, 71r, 71v, 72r, 74v), as well as Latin terms scattered throughout.

Summary:

A manual of judicial procedures and municipal law of the town of Olmütz (Czech, Olomouc). The manual is divided into 33 articles, and two parts, with the second part (apparently that pertaining to municipal law as opposed to court procedures) beginning at article 14 (f. 30r). It has a table of contents (f. 94r-100v). Remnants of a red wax seal that was removed are visible on f. 1r.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, iii + 100 + i; 1-93, [94-100]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (some numbers partially trimmed).
Layout: Written in 17-18 long lines.
Script: Written in a German cursive hand.
Decoration: Rubrics in a more formal calligraphic hand; initials of article rubrics decorated.
Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin (Zacour-Hirsch), with remnants of two clasps.
Origin: Written in Olomouc (Czech Republic) in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
OlmP̈ublished in Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Mr. Tallandier (Marseille), 1942, and formerly part of a private library that was sold in Monte Carlo earlier that year (note, inside upper cover).
Sold by Stuttgarter Antiquariat (Stuttgart), 1965.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A(1). Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 30 (Ms. German 66).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1111.

OCLC:

190898823

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