Details

Subjects:

Guilds -- Germany.
Guilds.
Germany.
Ingolstadt (Germany) -- History -- Sources.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

German.

Summary:

Booklet containing records of the guild of harness-makers (riemer; f. 1r, 2r, 17r) in Ingolstadt, with entries dated from 1558 until 1745. Entries include such information as the names of masters and the establishment of their workshops; the names of apprentices (pueben, bueben, gesellen) taken on; the term of the apprenticeship; the places where the apprentices learned their craft (often localities in Bavaria); and the payment of fees (maistergeldt; f. 16r). The last dated entry notes the purchase of a seal for the guild (handwercks sigl; f. 42v) and other expenditures.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 53; [1-53]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in various German cursive scripts by multiple hands.
Binding: Paper wrapper. Folio 1 is completely detached; f. 41 is attached to sewing by a slip of paper fastened with a metal pin. Staining visible due to water and mildew damage; numerous tears at corners and edges.
Origin: Written in Ingolstadt (f. 21r, 29r) from 1558 (f. 1r) through 1745 (f. 42v).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Streisand, 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. 84 (Ms. German 31).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1112

OCLC:

191077767