Lantrecht van Zallant, va[n] Twenthe, van Vullenhoe, van Drenthe, mit anderen priviligien des landes van Overijssel.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Dutch

Subjects (All):

Law--Netherlands--Drenthe--Early works to 1800.

Law.

Law--Netherlands--Overijssel--Early works to 1800.

Privileges and immunities--Netherlands.

Privileges and immunities.

Drenthe (Netherlands)--Early works to 1800.

Drenthe (Netherlands).

Overijssel (Netherlands)--Early works to 1800.

Overijssel (Netherlands).

Netherlands.

Netherlands--Overijssel.

Netherlands--Drenthe.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

legal documents

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased in 1962.

Physical Description:

93 leaves : parchment ; 205 x 155 (155 x 105) mm bound to 213 x 165 mm

Production:

[Netherlands], [circa 1546]

Language Note:

Dutch.

Summary:

Copies of laws, rights, and privileges dating between 1380 and 1546 concerning the province of Drenthe and the communities of Salland, Twente, and Vollenhove in the province of Overijssel, all in the Netherlands. A detailed table of contents by the archivist of Drenthe, dated 1890, is laid in.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title (f. 1r).

Foliation: Parchment, i (contemporary parchment) + 93 + i (contemporary parchment); [1-93]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 27 long lines, ruled in lead.

Script: Written in Gothic cursive script.

Decoration: Underlining, paragraph marks, and marginal section numbers in red; 2-line initials in red or blue mark the beginning of a new document.

Binding: Vellum with a flap held closed by a metal clasp (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in the Netherlands, circa 1546.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Normal P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 48 (Ms. Dutch 4).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 991

OCLC:

155927441

Access Restriction:

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