Details

Subjects:

Counter-Reformation -- Switzerland.
Counter-Reformation.
Basel-Landschaft (Switzerland : Canton) -- History.
Switzerland.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Government records.
Church records.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

German.

Summary:

Copy of records of meetings and letters exchanged in connection with negotiations that took place from 3 July (Heuwmonat) to around mid or late August 1582, among Jacques-Christophe Blarer de Wartensee (Jakob Christoph Blarer von Wartensee), Bishop of Basel; the leadership of the district or bailiwick (Herrschaft, Vogtij, Ampt) of Pfeffingen (today located in the district of Arlesheim in the canton Basel-Landschaft, also called Baselland, Switzerland), which fell within Blarer's jurisdiction; and emissaries of the 7 Catholic cantons of the Swiss Confederation allied with Blarer: Luzern, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Freiburg, and Solothurn. Pfeffingen had earlier come under the influence of the Reformation and these negotiations marked the beginning of Blarer's introduction of the Counter-Reformation there. The copies of the 8 documents appear to form a unit, transcribed together.

Contents:

1. f.1r-4v: Kurtze Verzeichnus was auf den drittenn Tag Heuwmonats A[nn]o [15]82 zwijschen Herrenn Jacob Christoffel Blaarer Bischoff zu Brundruth [und den?] Unnderthonen der Herrschaft zu Pfeffingen, durch die Gesandten der siben catholischen Orthen der Eijdtgnossschaft, als Lutzern, Urij, Schwijtz, Underwalden, Zug, Frijburg und Solothurn, von wegen Religions sachen fürgenom[m]en uund verhandlet worden, wie volgt.
2. f.5r-5v: Copeij des Schrijbens, so die catholijschen Orth[en] loblicher Eijdgnosschafft, an die Meijer unnd Gemeindten des Ampts Pfeffingen gethon [Solothurn, 24 July 1582].
3. f.6r-7r: Verantwortung auf das erst Schrijben der sijben catholischen Orthen [2 August 1582] / leadership of Pfeffingen.
4. f.7v-8v: Das ander Schrijben der catholischenn Orthen, an die Gmeindten zu Pfeffingenn [Solothurn, ca. early August 1582].
5. f.9r-10r: Verantwortung auf das vorgenth Schrijben der Herren Eijdtgnossen [13 August 1582] / leadership of Pfeffingen.
6. f.10v-11r: Das dritt Schrijben der sijben catholischen Orthen an die Gmeindten zu Pfeffingen [Solothurn, 12 August 1582].
7. f.11r-13v: Grundthicher Bericht was Herr Jacob Christoffel Blaarer Bischoff zu Basell den 13. Augusti A[nn]o [15]82 mit seinen Unnderthenen der Vogtij Pfeffingen verhandlet, wie volgt.
8. f.14r-15v: Verantwortung unnd Supplicatio an den Bischoff auf vorgenth Anlangen unnd Begärenn [ca. mid to late August 1582] / leadership of Pfeffingen.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper, i (newer paper) + 15 (foliated 1, 3-16; f. 16 is blank) + i (newer paper); 1⁴(1 is pastedown; +3,4) 2¹² 3³(+1; 3 is pastedown). Contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, 3-16; supplementary modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, f. 1. Note in ink (19th-century or earlier?) indicates that a leaf is missing before f. 3 (hier fehlt ein halber bogen; f. 1v). Catchwords on both the recto and verso of f. 1, 3-6, 8, 9; and on the verso only of f. 7, 10-14.
Layout: Written in 33-34 long lines.
Script: Written in a German cursive hand.
Decoration: First line of first document enlarged and written in a more formal calligraphic hand. 5-line embellished initials of rubrics or opening lines (f. 5r, 6r, 7v, 14r); initials of rubrics and sections with pen flourishes throughout. Marginal drawings of pointing hands (f. 4r, 4v, 6v, 7v, 10r, 12v, 13r, 13v, 14v, 15r, 15v).
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in the bailiwick (Vogtei) of Pfeffingen (?), Switzerland, in 1582.

Penn Provenance:

Previously held at Archiv Schöppl (red stamp, upper left recto, f. 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14; and lower mid recto, f. 16).
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1960.

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. 86 (Ms. German 38).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1125

OCLC:

191880666