Details

Subjects:

Ferdinand, Archbishop and Elector of Cologne, 1577-1650.
Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor, 1557-1619.
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1552-1612.
Stefan Batory, King of Poland, 1533-1586.
Crell, Nicolaus.
Electors (Kurfürsten).
Inquisition.
Holy Roman Empire -- Kings and rulers -- Genealogy.
Inquisition -- Germany.
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.
German poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
German poetry.
German poetry -- Early modern.
Germany.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Genealogical tables.
Genealogies (histories)
Poems.
Hybrid books.
Wood engravings (prints)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.
Family histories.

Language:

Latin and German.

Summary:

Collection of printed documents and manuscripts, many related to the genealogy of electors of the Holy Roman Empire.

Contents:

1. f.11r-29v: Aurea Bulla Karoli IIII. Rom. Imperatoris [n.d. printed Iohannem Taschnerum, p.1-38].
2. f.31r: [Quotations from Polybius and De Oratione] / Cicero.
3. f.32r-40r: De Aurea Bulla.
4. f.49r: Anno 1610. Ad sacram caesaream maiestatem [Latin poem in elegiac couplets addressed to Rudolf II].
5. f.56r-57v: Ambitio quorundam circa titulos notata & reprehensa / Mich: Piccard: (scribe).
6. f.58r-59r: Matthias König ...
7. f.61r-133v: [Printed lists and registers of officers, servants, and horses, many with the heading Furier und Futterzettel, including one for Archbishop Ferdinand of Köln, printed in Frankfurt am Main by Sigismund Latomo and Johann Bringern, 1612, 11 items]
8. f.134r-168r: Brevis designatio omnium comitum Palatinorum, 1601 [genealogy].
9. f.170r-177r: [Poem in German]
10. f.180r-188r: [Genealogy of Philipp, Baron of Winnenburg]
11. f.190r-190v: Brevis designatio successionis.
12. f.194r-194v: Epistola Hieronym[i] Treutleri F.C. de familia Bathereorum Transilvaniae principum [genealogy, Stephan Batory, King of Poland].
13. f.195r-200r: Ad nobilem et magnificum virum dominum Casparum.
14. f.202r-224r: Danielis eremitae Belgae iter german[i]cum.
15. f.226r-238v: Vera relatio processus Crelliani, Dresdae, 9 Oct. 1601 [Process of the Inquisition against Nicolaus Crelli or Crell, including his epitaph]
16. f.239r: Hieron: Treutlerus de Crellio [poem].
17. f.243v-244r: Genealogiae comiti Isembergicorum particula.
18. f.244v-246r: Comites Leonsteinii et Wertheimii ex Imperii Septemviro.
19. f.250r-250v: [Three Latin poems] / Filiczki (possibly János Filiczki).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Contemporary title from spine.
Foliation: Paper, 246; [1-246]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Printed items have separate pagination. Some blank leaves between sections are uncut.
Script: Written in various cursive and italic scripts by at least 9 hands.
Decoration: Genealogical tables in text (one previously laid in the manuscript is now housed as Misc Mss (Large) Box 2 Folder 26, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania). A few woodcuts on title pages of printed materials.
Binding: Contemporary limp parchment leaf from an earlier liturgical manuscript containing musical notation. Some quires are nearly or completely detached.
Genealogical table of the Menardus or Meinardus family, previously folded and laid in this manuscript, has been removed, unfolded, and housed and cataloged separately as Misc Mss (Large) Box 2 Folder 26, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.

Penn Provenance:

Accessioned, 1952.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 819

Contributor:

Filiczky, János, approximately 1580-1622 or 1623.
Piccard, M., scribe.
Treutler, Hieronymus, 1565-1607.

Contains:

Holy Roman Empire. Bulla Aurea.
Furier und Futterzettel.

OCLC:

187966252