Details

Subjects:

Finance, Public -- Holy Roman Empire -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
Orders of knighthood and chivalry.
Finance, Public.
Holy Roman Empire -- History -- Leopold I, 1658-1705.
Holy Roman Empire -- Officials and employees.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, European.
Handbooks and manuals.

Language:

German, with at least two passages in Latin (f. 69v-70r, 122v).

Biography/History:

Appointed director of the Hofkammer of the Holy Roman Empire in 1656.

Summary:

A reference manual pertaining to the administrative work of the Hofkammer (imperial treasury), the authority that oversaw the assets of the Holy Roman Empire, mainly compiled and written by Freiherr (Baron) Clement von Radolt (beschrieben und zusammen getragen durch ... Herrn Clementem Freijherrn von Radolth; f. 1r). The title page indicates that the work in its present form has been edited and expanded by an anonymous individual who identifies himself as an elderly cameralist, or civil servant of the empire, in the imperial city, Vienna (auf gegenwertigen Statum eingerichtet und umb viel vermehret von einem beiahrten und des Kaij. Statts practicirten Cammeralisten; f. 1r). Several main structural divisions are apparent in the manuscript: 1. an administrative overview of the imperial court (f. 2-68); 2. a narrative instructional guide for a councillor (Rath) of the Hofkammer (f. 69-122), entitled Geheimber Hoff Cammer Instruction (f. 69r), with a conclusion dated 1674 (f. 122v); 3. an inventory of the imperial art collection (Kunstkammer; f. 123-136), grouped according to halls, chambers, and galleries, including listings of titles and artists; and 4. a work by Hieronymus Megiser entitled Ursprung und Anfang des trifachen Ritterstands Ordens, about the origins of various orders of knights. The overview of the court includes a listing by name of current office holders or personnel under the rubrics for all of the ministries, standing bodies, and offices, with notations of monetary amounts, apparently salaries; a listing of members of the nobility by name and title (Verzeichnuss der jenigen löblichen allhisigen Lands Mitglieder in Österreich unter der Ennsz, f. 40); and a structural overview of the imperial army (Verzeichnuss aller deren von Ihro Röm. Kaij. Maij. anietzo in Bereitschaft, so wohl zu Pferd als auch zu Fuesz habenden Regimentern, auch wo sie liegen, und Ihro Kaij. Verpflegungs Ordinanz haben; f. 50r). The section on the army seems to consist mainly of copies of two ordinances issued by Leopold I (f. 50r, 60v), which include inventories of regiments signed by Count (Graf) Raimondo Montecuccoli (Raymund Montecucoh, f. 60r, 66v), Erasmus Constantin Sattler (Erasmus Constantin, f. 60r), and Christoph von Dorsch (Johann Christoff Dorsch, f. 66v). The rubrics in the subtitle generally describe the contents of parts 1-3 but slightly out of sequence. The section on the budget of the office of the Hungarian borders (hungarische Gränitzensambt denen Tabellen, f. 82r-99r), which is separately highlighted in the subtitle, actually comes in the middle of the instructional guide for Hofkammer councillors. The work by Megiser is not alluded to in the subtitle, but it is listed in a contemporary table of contents at the end of the volume (f. 144r-147v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Includes numerous table-like displays of numerical data, the most formal of which are tables of the personnel of the office of the Hungarian borders (f. 82v-83r); and of the budget for the Szepes Chamber (Zipser Cammer oder Administration Cassoviensis, f. 111v) for the years 1672-1674 (f. 112v-114v).
Foliation: Paper, i + 147; 1-143, [144-147]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a German cursive hand.
Binding: Contemporary parchment (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Vienna (?) in 1678.

Penn Provenance:

Contemporary bookplate with coat of arms depicting 2 horses, each holding a hammer and a horseshoe (pasted, inside upper cover).
Sold by Gilhofer (Vienna), 1965.

Cited in:

Described in Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A(1). Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 31 (Ms. German 68).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1176

Contributor:

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1640-1705.
Megiser, Hieronymus, approximately 1553-1618.
Montecuccoli, Raimondo, Prince, 1609-1680.

Contains:

Sattler, Erasmus Constantin.
Dorsch, Christoph von.

OCLC:

228073863