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[Documents concerning the government of the Duchy of Sachsen-Lauenburg].

Publication:
[Herzogtum Lauenburg?], [1718, 1729?].
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Manuscript
266 leaves : paper ; 318 x 192 (250-260 x 140-150) mm bound to 325 x 218 mm
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Subjects:
Lauenburg (Duchy) -- History.
Sachsen-Lauenburg -- Politics and government.
Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) -- History -- Sources.
Herzogtum Lauenburg (Germany) -- History.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Government records.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
German, with Latin in the rubric, opening lines, notary attestations, and seals (pp. [i], [viii], 28, 133, 112, 120, 127, and 242).
Summary:
Collection of copies of 22 documents, dated 1584 to 1729, mainly pertaining to the estates of knights and landowners (Ritter- und Landschaft; p. [ii]) in the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg, or Saxe-Lauenburg (Herzogtum Sachsen-Lauenburg), also known simply as the Duchy of Lauenburg, a historical region around the cities of Lauenburg and Ratzeburg that existed as a separate entity with its own line of dukes from 1260 to 1689, and was then absorbed into the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, which subsequently became the Electorate of Hannover. In their own time the dukes of Saxony-Lauenburg carried the title Duke of Saxony (Herzog zu Sachsen). The area corresponds to what is today the district of Herzogtum Lauenburg in the southeast of the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein. The collection is prefaced by a narrative introduction (pp. [i-viii]), written in Hamburg, 18 February 1690 (p. [i]), and evidently transcribed around 1718. The introduction, which pertains specifically to documents 1-20, explains that the copies were prepared by the notary Johannes Plato in at the request of Joachim Werner von Bülow, of Gudow, and Friedrich August von Wittorf, of Lüdersburg, and witnessed by Uldrich Zielmann and Herloff Dalhoff (p. [i]). The introduction contains a table of contents for those 20 documents, including physical details about the originals from which the copies were made (pp. [ii-viii]). Document 21, dated 1718, is followed by a copy of the seal of Joachim Werner von Bülow (Hofrichter Land Marschall, unseres Hertzogthums Lauenburg; p. 242), and appears to be in the same hand as documents 1-20. Document 22, dated 1729, is in a different hand. In the introduction as well as many of the documents, references to Lower Saxony (Nieder Sachsen; pp. [i-ii], 29, 45), and use of the modifier Lower Saxon (nieder-sächsisch; pp. 25, 53), evidently relate to the Lower Saxon district or circle (Kreis) within the Holy Roman Empire, to which the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg belonged at that time, although the region is not part of present-day Lower Saxony. Documents 2 and 3, issued by Emperor Rudolf II, were prepared by court secretary Andreas Erstenberg and signed by the imperial vice chancellor Sigmund Vieheuser (pp. 23, 28). Documents 4 and 11 include the names of individual signers on behalf of the Ritter- und Landschaft (pp. 42-43, 147). In the case of document 6, issued by the mayors and council members (Bürgermeister und Rahtmänner; p. 58) of the cities of Lauenburg and Ratzeburg, individual signers are not given. Document 7, issued by Duke Franz II, was apparently witnessed by Bartold von Gerdenstein, Hieronimus Schultz, Otto Lüzow and Hans Daldorp (p. 84). Document 10, issued by Emperor Ferdinand II, was prepared by court secretary Johann Soldner and signed by imperial vice chancellor Peter Heinrich von Stralendorf (p. 133). It contains transcriptions of 3 documents issued by Duke August in 1629 (two on 6 May and one on 22 May). Documents 21 and 22, issued by King George I and King George II, respectively, were both signed by Philip von Hattorf, Hanoverian minister.
Contents:
1. pp. [i-viii]: [Introduction] [Hamburg, 18 February 1690] / Johannes Plato.
2. Document 1, pp. 1-7: Constitution Herrn Hertzogen Frantz zu Sachsen des Jüngern zu Befoderrung der heilsamen Justitz [Lauenburg, 3 January 1584] / Franz II, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg.
3. Document 2, pp. 9-23: Dero römischen kaijserlichen Maijestät provisional Abscheid [sic] in causa Lauenburg contra Lauenburg [Prague, 31 January 1585] / Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.
4. Document 3, pp. 25-28: Der römischen kaijserlichen Maijestät Patent und Befehl, an die nieder-sächsische Stände, dass sie Ihr fürstlichen Gnaden Herrn Hertzog Frantzen dess Andern für ihren Regenten erkennen sollen [Prague, 31 January 1585] / Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.
5. Document 4, pp. 29-43: Die Union der Ritter und Landschafft [Lauenburg, 16 December 1585] / Ritter- und Landschaft, Herzogtum Sachsen-Lauenburg.
6. Document 5, pp. 45-51: Herrn Hertzog Franzen Consens über die Union [Lauenburg, 8 (?) January 1586] / Franz II, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg.
7. Document 6, pp. 53-58: Der beeden niedersächsischen Städten Lauenburg und Ratzeburg Zustimmung und revers beij der Union steiff und fest zu halten [6 January 1586] / Mayors and council members of the cities of Lauenburg and Ratzeburg.
8. Document 7, pp. 61-84: Bericht auss was Ursachen der durchläuchtiger hochgebohrner Fürst und Herr, Herr Frantz Hertzog zu Sachsen ... bewegen in die von seiner fürstlichen Gnaden getreuen Ritter- und Landschafft offerirten und übergebenen Union gnädiglichen zu verwilligen [Ratzeburg, 1 June 1586] / Franz II, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg.
9. Document 8, pp. 85-94: Erklärung Ihr fürstlichen Gnaden Herrn Hertzog Augusti auf der Ritter- und Landschafft übergebene gravamina [Lauenburg, 6 May 1620] / August, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg.
10. Document 9, pp. 97-104: Confirmatio unionis der nieder-sächsischen Ritter- und Landschafft Ihr fürstlichen Gnaden Herrn Hertzog Augusti [Lauenburg, 6 May 1620] / August, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg.
11. Document 10, pp. 105-133: Die Confirmation des Kaijsers Ferdinandis [Vienna, 28 February 1626] / Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
12. Document 11, pp. 137-147: Recess Herrn Hertzog Julij Henrichs fürstlichen Gnaden mit Ritter- und Landschafft vor der eventual Huldigung aufgerichtet [Ratzeburg, 8 May 1654] / Julius Heinrich, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg, and Ritter- und Landschaft, Herzogtum Sachsen-Lauenburg.
13. Document 12, pp. 149-156: Herrn Hertzog Julij Heinrichs Huldigungs Revers, beij Auftretung der Regierung [Ratzeburg, 2 April 1656] / Julius Heinrich, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg.
14. Document 13, pp. 157-164: Confirmation Herrn Hertzog Julij Henrichs, der Ritter und Landtschafft Union [Ratzeburg, 2 April 1656] / Julius Heinrich, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg.
15. Document 14, pp. 165-180: Erklärung Herrn Hertzog Julij Heinrichs auff der Ritter- und Landschafft übergebene gravamina [Ratzeburg, 2 April 1656] / Julius Heinrich, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg.
16. Document 15, pp. 181-195: Remotio gravaminum Herrn Hertzog Frantz Erdmans zu Sachsen [Ratzeburg, 21/31 December 1665] / Franz Erdmann, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg.
17. Document 16, pp. 197-203: Reversalen Herrn Hertzog Franz Erdtmans [Ratzeburg, 21/31 December 1665] / Franz Erdmann, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg.
18. Document 17, pp. 205-211: Confirmatio unionis et privilegiorum Herrn Hertzog Franz Erdmanns [Ratzeburg, 21/31 December 1665] / Franz Erdmann, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg.
19. Document 18, pp. 213-220: Herrn Herzog Julij Franzen Confirmatio unionis reverses [Ratzeburg, 24 September 1666] / Julius Franz, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg.
20. Document 19, pp. 221-227: Herrn Hertzog Julij Franz zu Sachsen confirmatio privilegiorum [Ratzeburg, 24 September 1666] / Julius Franz, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg.
21. Document 20, pp. 229-232: Hertzog Julij Franzen zu Sachsen remotio gravaminum [Ratzeburg, 24 September 1666] / Julius Franz, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg.
22. Document 21, pp. 233-242: [Response to the Ritter- und Landschaft (?) of Herzogtum Sachsen-Lauenburg on several points concerning the rights and privileges of landowners vis-à-vis peasants] [Kensington, 27 June/8 July 1718] / George I, King of Great Britain.
23. Document 22, pp. 243-244: [Confirmation of privileges of the Ritter- und Landschaft of Herzogtum Sachsen-Lauenburg as previously set out by George I in 1703] [Herrenhausen (Hannover), 27 August 1729] / George II, King of Great Britain.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title of codex and of documents 21 and 22 supplied by cataloger. Titles of documents 1-20 from caption titles.
Pagination: Paper, i + 126 + cxxxix; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners: [i-viii], 1-232; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners, 233-244 (followed by 139 blank leaves). Catchwords scattered throughout after document 8.
Layout: Written in 26-27 long lines; upper and outer margins of text block-ruled in ink.
Script: Written in 2 German cursive hands.
Decoration: Initials of text of documents usually 3-line with pen flourishes.
Binding: Contemporary half calf (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Probably written in the Duchy of Sachsen-Lauenburg around 1718 and 1729.
Penn Provenance:
Sold by Habelet (or Hablet), 1969.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A(5). Library Chronicle 37, no. 2 (1971), p. 113 (Ms. German 74).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1197
Contributor:
Plato, Johannes.
Bülow, Joachim Werner von, 1653-1724.
Wittorf, Friedrich August von.
Zielmann, Uldrich.
Dalhoff, Herloff.
Franz II, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg, 1547-1619.
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1552-1612.
Erstenberg, Andreas von, -1592.
Viehauser, Sigmund, -1587.
Gerdenstein, Bartold von.
Schultz, Hieronimus.
Lützow, Otto.
Daldorp, Hans.
August, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg, 1577-1656.
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1578-1637.
Soldner, Johann.
Stralendorf, Peter Heinrich, Freiherr von, -1637.
Julius Heinrich, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg, 1586-1665.
Franz Erdmann, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg, 1629-1666.
Julius Franz, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg, 1641-1689.
George I, King of Great Britain, 1660-1727.
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760.
Hattorf, Philip von.
Lauenburg (Duchy). Ritter- und Landschaft.
OCLC:
232606012