Details

Subjects:

Oaths -- Germany.
Oaths.
Passau (Germany) -- History -- Sources.
Passau (Germany) -- Church history.
Germany.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

German.

Summary:

Collection of transcriptions of documents, dated 1290 to 1539, concerning the governance of the city of Passau, especially with respect to the relations between, and respective jurisdictions of the bishop of Passau, on the one hand, and the civil authorities (Bürgermaister, Richter und Rath; f. 62r) and citizenry (gemaine Bürgerschafft; f. 2r), on the other. Document 1 was issued by Wilhelm IV and Ludwig X, Dukes of Bavaria, on behalf of their brother Ernest of Bavaria, then administrator of the bishopric of Passau (Administrator des Stiffts Passau; f. 1r). It contains a series of 75 numbered articles of complaint (Irrung, f. 11r; Clagarticul, f. 49v) raised by Ernest against the civil authorities and citizenry of Passau. Document 2 is apparently a related agreement regulating the relations between the two parties, Ernest and the town of Passau. It ends with texts of oaths to be sworn to the bishop, or to his chosen mayor and council (f. 61r-62r). Document 3 represents a pronouncement issued by Albert I, Habsburg Duke of Austria, from his court at Nuremberg (Hof zu Nürnberg; f. 63r), settling a dispute between the town of Passau and the then bishop of Passau, Bernhard (Vernhardt; f. 62v) of Prambach; it ends with the text of an oath (f. 66r). Document 4 apparently corresponds to what is known as the Stadtbrief (town letter) of Bernhard, which established a new foundation for the law of the town. Document 5 contains pronouncements of Bishop Ernest, presented as an interpretation of the Stadtbrief (Erleuterung uber Bischof Bernharts Stattbrief; f. 74v). Documents 6-8 apparently relate to the settlement reached between Bishop Albert III von Winkel (Albrecht Bischof zu Passau; f. 93r) and the town of Passau through the intervention of Albert III and Leopold III, Habsburg Dukes of Austria, following the crisis of relations that occurred in 1364, when the town refused submission to the newly elected bishop.

Contents:

1. f.1r-56r: Die neuen Sprüch aufgericht anno 1535 / Wilhelm IV, Duke of Bavaria, and Ludwig X, Herzog von Ober- und Niederbayern.
2. f.57r-62r: Hernach volgt der Inhalt beeder Partheien Verschreibung auf Volziehung des Vertrags [ca. 1535] / Ernest of Bavaria, Archbishop and Elector of Cologne.
3. f.62v-66r: Der Spruch vom König Albrechten dem römischen, ergangen des zwelfhundertundneunzigisten Jars [1290] / Albert I, Holy Roman Emperor.
4. f.66v-74r: Bischof Bernharts Brief so aufgericht des dreizehenhundertisten Jahrs [1300] / Bernhard of Prambach, Bishop of Passau.
5. f.74v-92v: Volgt hernach die Erleuterung uber Bischof Bernharts Stattbrief, so beschehen des funfzehenhundert neununddreissigisten Jares [1539] / Ernest of Bavaria, Archbishop and Elector of Cologne.
6. f.93r-96r: Das Vidimus des Anlasbriefs vnd Hindergangs under die Fürsten von Ossterreich, geschehen des dreizehenhundert und sibenundsechzigisten Jars [1367] / Albert III, Duke of Austria, and Leopold III, Duke of Austria.
7. f.97r-101r: Der Spruch von den Fürsten von Össterreich, ergangen in dem aintausent dreihundert sibenundsechzigistn Jahre [1367] / Albert III, Duke of Austria, and Leopold III, Duke of Austria.
8. f.101v-115v: Der Spruch von den Fürsten von Össterreich ergangen im Jahr aintausent dreihundert achtundsechzig [1368] / Albert III, Duke of Austria, and Leopold III, Duke of Austria.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, ii + 115 + ii; 1-115; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 18-21 long lines.
Script: Written in a German cursive hand.
Decoration: Titles and first lines of documents enlarged and written in a more formal book script, with embellished initials; section rubrics and initials of sections throughout codex with flourishes, sometimes embellished.
Binding: Later boards.
Origin: Probably written in Passau, in Bavaria, Germany, after 1539, probably in the second half of the 16th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by H. Thomas Wenner (Osnabrück), 1962.

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. 88 (Ms. German 48).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1135

Contributor:

Wilhelm IV, Duke of Bavaria, 1493-1550.
Ludwig X, Herzog von Ober- und Niederbayern, 1495-1545.
Ernest, of Bavaria, Archbishop and Elector of Cologne, 1554-1612.
Albert I, Holy Roman Emperor, approximately 1255-1308.
Albert III, Duke of Austria, 1350-1395.

Contains:

Bernhard, von Prambach, Bishop of Passau, approximately 1220-1313.
Leopold III, Duke of Austria, 1351-1386.

OCLC:

212745315