Details

Other Title:

Ms. Jus., Wien, 1572.

Subjects:

Criminal courts -- Austria -- Vienna -- History.
Peasant uprisings -- Europe.
Peasant uprisings.
Criminal courts.
History.
Vienna (Austria) -- History -- Sources.
Europe.
Austria -- Vienna.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Legal documents.
Petitions.
Testimonies.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

German.

Summary:

Record of interrogations and testimonies in connection with criminal trials conducted by the imperial municipal court (Stadtgericht) in Vienna, from ca. May 1572 to July 1574 (f. 234r), with notations about judgments, including pardons and executions (with some dates in August 1574; f. 229r). Among the trials is that of Ilija Gregorić (Elias Gregoritsch, f. 104r; Gregoritz, f. 104v) and his followers for organizing and leading a peasant revolt in Croatia (Crabatischer Paurnkrieg, f. 104r-122v, and 151r-157v). Those proceedings are signed by Johann Hutstocker (Huetstockher, f. 122v and 157v), Stadtrichter (city judge) of Vienna; Hutstocker is known to have held that office from 1572 to 1573. Bound upside down with the trial records is a copy of a petition from Hutstocker (f. 234v-239v), addressed to the emperor, containing a reference to the present year 1572 (f. 239v). Hutstocker discusses the exercise of his duties in office and is possibly seeking a promotion. Following the petition is a table of contents (f. 241r) listing the trials in the volume by name of individual, with crosses marking those who were executed.

Contents:

1. f.3r-234r, 241r: Malefitzsachen veindlicher Bekhanntnusser ingefangen den 30 Maii anno 1572.
2. f.234v-239v: [Petition to emperor ] / Johann Hutstocker.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from cover.
Foliation: Paper, i (later paper) + 240 + i (later paper); [3-9], 10-92, [i], 93-234, [235-241]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Folios 1-2 are missing; occasionally numbers have been lost or are not legible.
Layout: Written in 2 columns, with wider right column containing main text, and left column reserved for rubrics, signatures, notes on outcomes, insertions, and corrections.
Script: Written in a German cursive script, possibly by multiple hands.
Decoration: Rubrics often written in a more formal book script; initials of paragraphs usually with pen flourishes.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, rebound (Zacour-Hirsch), with partially intact leather ties.
Origin: Written in Vienna from 1572 to 1574 (f. 234r).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Gsellius (Berlin), 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 49).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1137

Contributor:

Hutstocker, Johann, -1576.
Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1527-1576.

OCLC:

212815703