Details

Subjects:

Bavaria (Germany) -- History -- Sources.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Government records.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

German.

Summary:

Register (Landtafel) of jurisdictions within the localities forming administrative units of the principalities of Upper and Lower Bavaria in 1557. Under each locality are listed its subunits, including noble and church properties, often designated as constituting a Hofmarch (Hofmark); and, where applicable, the names of individuals who hold privileges over that property. Each locality listing begins with a list of offices (without names); the following terms occur: Pfleger, Zollner, Mautner, Richter, Gerichtsschreiber, Gegenschreiber, Cästner (Kastner?), Ungelter.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. 1).
Pagination: Paper, iv + 199 + xviii; [1-2], 3-398; modern pagination (1832; p. 398) in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a German cursive script.
Decoration: Initials of rubrics (localities) sometimes with flourishes (especially p. 49, 63, 153, 178, 277, 313 and 331).
Binding: Contemporary vellum; sheet from earlier missal (Zacour-Hirsch). With clasp straps (on the lower cover only stubs remain).
Origin: Written in Bavaria in 1557 (p. 1).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Jo. Otho of Taufkirchen ("Jo. Otho à Taufkhirch"), in 1610 (p. 1).
Formerly owned by Föring, in 1832 (front flyleaf; p. 398).
Sold by V. A. Heck (Vienna), 1958.

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. 85 (Ms. German 34).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1117

Contributor:

Otho, J., former owner.

OCLC:

191696251