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Pawilhar.

Format/Description:
Manuscript
269 leaves : paper ; 295 x 200 (230 x 150) mm bound to 305 x 210 mm
Production:
[Liège, Belgium], [after 1521]
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Subjects:
Customary law -- Belgium -- Liège.
Customary law.
Liège (Belgium) -- History.
Belgium -- Liège.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Laws.
Customaries.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
French, with citations and margin notes in Latin.
Summary:
A Pawilhar (or Pawillart) was the title for the compilation of laws, privileges, and customs of the county and the city of Liège. Such compilations circulated widely under this title in a variety of forms and comprises laws from different periods of Liège's history. This particular codex begins with a copy of Alyance defencive (alliance defensive), which outlines the terms for the treaty of St. Trond that established an alliance between the previously neutral Liège and the Burgundian Netherlands in 1518. Some of the laws in the compilation date as far back as the 14th century; the most recent law is from 1521. The script and the decorations in this codex suggest that it was composed as an official copy. A Constitution du Conseil from 27 July 1521 follows this decoration.
Contents:
1. f.1r-4r: Alyance defencive.
2. f.5r-258r: [Compilation of laws, privileges, and customs of Liège]
3. f.259r-269v: Constitution du Conseil.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Incipit: Alyance defencive: nous pr[- -ost] soucy Archdiacre [et] chappittre nobles baron et bas[c]htau[x] burghemrie... (f. 1r); Explicit: ... et puis ainsy [ad] ma[n]date Cic[saric] et catholi[qu]e ma[jes]te ppri[m- -] ha[mm]art (f. 269v).
Foliation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 269 + xi (modern paper); 1-269; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 34 long lines; text block outlined in ink.
Script: Written in a secretary script.
Decoration: Rubricated initials, capitals, headings, and paragraph marks; manicule (f. 120r); a full-page coat of arms with a double headed eagle holding two shields (f. 258v); the first shield, in the middle of the eagle's chest, depicts a lion on top of a red and white checkered board, the second shield with a white stripe in the middle of a red shield is held sideways by the eagle's tail.
Watermarks: Outer leaves depict a coat of arms with a horn and an inscription Holland; these outer leaves have no writing on them and are thinner than the leaves with text; leaves with writing have a crowned vase as a watermark.
Binding: Half calf (Zacour-Hirsch); detached spine and upper cover; gilt spine with title Pawilhar.
Origin: Written in Liège, after 1521.
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by Hermann Suchier (bookplate, inside upper cover).
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. 158 (Ms. Lea 47).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1202.
Contributor:
Suchier, Hermann, 1848-1914, former owner.
OCLC:
232609270
Access Restriction:
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