[Account book].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Guilds--Germany.

Guilds.

Germany.

Germany--History--Sources.

History.

Genre:

Sources.

codices (bound manuscripts)

account books

Manuscripts, German.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Hugo Streisand (Berlin), 1953.

Physical Description:

46 leaves : paper ; 317 x 110 (at largest, varying to as small as 315 x 903) mm bound to mm 317 x 110 mm

Place of Publication:

[Germany], 1642-1662.

Language Note:

German.

Summary:

Account book of unidentified guild, recording payment of annual dues ("Jahrschilling"; in at least one instance, the term "Wochen Pfennig" is used, f. 27r), by masters ("Maister") and apprentices ("Khnecht"), as well as expenditures, for every year from 1642 to 1661; an entry for 1662 is unfinished.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger; date based on earliest date (f. 1r) and latest date (f. 47r) appearing in the item.

Collation: Paper, 46 (ff. 6-24 are blank); 1⁴⁸ (-37, torn out; 48 is pastedown); modern pencil foliation, lower right recto.

Script: Written in a German cursive hand.

Binding: Boards.

Origin: Written in Germany from 1642 through 1662.

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. 78 (Ms. German 2).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1075.

OCLC:

181375942

Access Restriction:

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