Details

Subjects:

Ostfriesland (Germany) -- History -- Sources.

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
reports.
Hybrid books.
Manuscripts, German -- 18th century.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

German, with some phrases and rubrics and a section of early 20th-century notes (f. 456r-463v) in Latin; printed works include Latin and German translations of official documents.

Biography/History:

Imperial public notary and procurator of the assembly of Ostfriesland (later note by a descendant, f. 464r).

Summary:

Collection of printed and manuscript works concerning the history of Ostfriesland, a region in Lower Saxony, Germany, primarily copies of official documents. A table of contents listing both printed and manuscript items, probably in the same hand as most of the manuscript items, is at the front of the volume (f. iii verso). The manuscript items concern the balance of power in Ostfriesland, with consideration of the court (Hofgericht), chancellery (Cantzleij), estates (whose owners were the leaders of the Landtag), and the sovereign (the prince Georg Albrecht or the princess and guardian Christina Charlotte, depending on the date of the document). These complement the printed items, which have similar concerns but also document the privileges granted to the Frisians by the Holy Roman Emperors. The writer of the 1910 inscription about C. Oldenhove (f. 464r) also added several pages of notes on Frisian history at the end of the volume in Latin, with citations from scholarly or official sources (f. 456r-463v).

Contents:

1. f.iii verso: [Manuscript table of contents]
2. f.1r-12v: [Printed collection of documents concerning privileges granted to the Frisians by various emperors]
3. f.13r-62r: Des ostfriesischen Cantzelars Thomae Frantzij, getreuwer Rath, wie eine bestendige, feste Regierung in Ostfriesslandt einzuführen sey ... [published 1662]
4. f.63r-74v: [Manuscript replacement for beginning of next printed work, with title page Abdruck sichern an die Romisch kaijserl. Maijt. ... ]
5. f.75r-98v: Abtruck Sichern An die Romisch. Keiserl. Majest. Von Ihr Furstl. Gn. die Furstl. Frauw Wittibe zu Oistfriesslandt ... [beginning lacking, printed]
6. f.99r-212v: Wiederholter Abdruck eines so genanten hoch-furstl. Oistfriessländischen Vormundschafftlichen publicirten ... [published 1684]
7. f.213r-366r: Ein mit Landes fundamentalen Gesetzen und Praejudiciis dicasterii illustrirter kurtzer Bericht, was es mit der Jurisdiction des ostfriesischen Hoffgerichts ... [manuscript]
8. f.375r-448r: Nachricht dessen was zwischen Seiner Hochfürstlichen Durchl. zu Ostfriessland und dero Landes Ständen, sodann dem ostfriesischen Hoffgerichte, wegen des in Anno 1718 inhaftiert gewesenen Liefke Gerdes verhandelt worden [manuscript]
9. f.449r-455r: Bedenken Domini Assessoris Feltmanni [?] über zweij von ihre Hochfürstl. Durchl. Anno 1689, den 12ten Junij, und 1690, den 10ten Julij, an das Hoffgericht abgelassene Schreiben [manuscript]
10. f.456r-463v: Notizen zur friesischen Geschichte [manuscript, early 20th century]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 467; [i-iii, 1-212, 213-366 (contemporary pagination 1-264, 267-309), 367-374 (blank), 375-464]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Manuscript leaves written in 20-23 long lines.
Script: Manuscript leaves written in German cursive script in the hand of C. Oldenhove (note dated 1910, f. 464r).
Binding: 18th-century mottled calf, blind-tooled and -stamped, rebacked; lower cover detached.
Origin: Written in Ostfriesland after 1718 (date of latest document copied, f. 213r).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Carl Oldenhove (Latinized form Carolus in inscription), Aurich, Germany, Ms. VII (inscriptions in ink, 1874, f. ii recto) and likely other descendants of the compiler.
Transferred from Culture Class collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2013.

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(1). Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 29-30 (Ms. German 62, Ms. German 63, Ms. German 64).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1631.

Contributor:

Oldenhove, Carl, former owner.

Contains:

Franzius, Thomas, 1563-1614. Ostfriesischen Cantzelars Thomae Frantzij, getreuwer Rath, wie eine bestendige, feste Regierung in Ostfriesslandt einzuführen sey.
Christine Charlotte, Princess of Ostfriesland, 1645-1699. Abtruck Sichern An die Romisch. Keiserl. Majest. Von Ihr Furstl. Gn. die Furstl. Frauw Wittibe zu Oistfriesslandt.
Wiederholter Abdruck eines so genanten hoch-furstl. Oistfriessländischen Vormundschafftlichen publicirten.
Ein mit Landes fundamentalen Gesetzen und Praejudiciis dicasterii illustrirter kurtzer Bericht, was es mit der Jurisdiction des ostfriesischen Hoffgerichts.
Nachricht dessen was zwischen Seiner Hochfürstlichen Durchl. zu Ostfriessland und dero Landes Ständen, sodann dem ostfriesischen Hoffgerichte, wegen des in Anno 1718 inhaftiert gewesenen Liefke Gerdes verhandelt worden.
Bedenken Domini Assessoris Feltmanni [?] über zweij von ihre Hochfürstl. Durchl. Anno 1689, den 12ten Junij, und 1690, den 10ten Julij, an das Hoffgericht abgelassene Schreiben.
Notizen zur friesischen Geschichte.

OCLC:

828627618

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