Beschreibung dess Lanndtags der auff Absterben weillendt des durchleuchtigen hochgebornnen Fürstenn und Herrn Herzog Albrechts in Bayrn hochloblicher Gedechtnus von seiner f.g. Son dem auch durchleuchtigen hochgebornnen Fürsten und Herrn Hertzog Wilhelmen alss angehendem ainigem regierenden Lanndsfürsten auf den dritten Tag Decembris geen Minchen ausgeschriben : was auch daselbs der Erbhuldigung und ander Sachen halben von Tag zu Tag gehandlet und beschlossen worden ist.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Wilhelm V, Duke of Bavaria, 1548-1626.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

• Bavaria (Germany)--History--Sources.

Genre:

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

Penn Provenance:

• Sold by Robert Wölfle (Munich), 1958.

Physical Description:

181 leaves : paper ; 310 x 200 (210 x 130) mm bound to 312 x 210 mm

Production:

[Munich], 1579.

Other Title:

• Landtag de anno: 1579
• Landtag i. Minchen 1579

Language Note:

German.

Summary:

Proceedings of the state assembly (Landtag) of the duchy of Bavaria, in Munich in December 1579. The assembly was called by Duke Wilhelm V (1548-1626), upon his accession to power following the death of his father, Duke Albrecht V (1528-1579), and met from 3 December (f. 2r) through 24 December (f. 171r, 177r).

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (f. 2r).
• The proceedings of the meeting of the Bavarian Landtag of 27 November 1583 to 19 January 1584, also under Duke Wilhelm V, are found in Ms. Codex 1119.
• Foliation: Paper, 181; [i], 1-177, [iii]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
• Layout: Written in 19-21 long lines.
• Script: Written in German cursive script.
• Decoration: First word of title (f. 2r) with large decorated initial and pen flourishes; initials of rubrics and sections usually 2- to 3-lines with flourishes (especially f. 51v, 62v, 63r, 94r, 116r, 132r, 137v, 147r, 155v). Additional pen flourishes at the end or beginning of some sections.
• Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin (Zacour-Hirsch), with clasp straps (one strap missing on upper cover).
• Origin: Written in Munich (Minchen, f. 2r; Münichen, f. 171r, 177r), in Bavaria, Germany, in 1579.

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 35).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1118

OCLC:

191726462