[Financial records].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Hospitals, Medieval--Germany.

Accounting--Germany--16th century.

Accounting.

Hospitals, Medieval.

Germany--History--Sources.

Germany.

History.

Genre:

Sources.

codices (bound manuscripts)

accounts

credit records

Manuscripts, German.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Horst A. Rittershofer (Berlin), 1956.

Physical Description:

210 leaves : paper ; 218-224 x 146-160 mm bound to 235 x 180 mm

Place of Publication:

[Rheinhessen-Pfalz?], 1511-1527.

Language Note:

German.

Summary:

Records of debts owed in connection with transactions between parties. The entries are written in a narrative form, with headings that usually indicate the names of one or two parties, usually individuals; in at least a few instances a hospital or a hospital administrator (Spitalmeister) is named (f. 80r, 165v). Sometimes place of residence seems to be given, such as Pfeddersheim (f. 160v and 194r, and partial leaf mounted on f. 15r) and Heidelberg (f. 43r). Modern leaves inserted during binding bear notes concerning the dates of entries enclosed in the corresponding gathering (see the unnumbered leaves preceding f. 107, f. 115, f. 143); the gatherings are apparently bound out of chronological order.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collation: Paper, ii (modern paper) + 96 + i (modern paper) + 8 + ii (modern paper) + 28 + ii (modern paper) + 12 + i (modern paper) + 56 + ii (modern paper); 1³ (1 is pastedown) 2¹⁴ 3⁸ 4-6¹² 7⁸ 8¹² 9⁴ 10¹⁴ 11¹⁰ 12¹⁴ (-14) 13¹⁸(-1) 14¹⁴ 15¹² 16⁸ 17¹²(-12) 18¹⁴(-14) 19¹² 20³(3 is pastedown). A total of 10 partial leaves are mounted as follows: 1 on f. 15r; 1 on f. 59r; 1 on f. 66r; 4 on f. 75r (the first partial leaf is f. 74); 1 (f. 17) on 108r; 1 on f. 115r; and 1 on 160r. A total of 4 loose partial leaves are inserted as follows: 2 between f. 25 and 26; 1 after f. 114; and 1 between f. 158 and 159. Modern foliation (likely contemporary with the 19th- century binding) in green pencil upper left recto, as follows: 1-12, 12a, 13-54, 56-90, 100-110, 110-210. Modern (19th-century) leaves used in binding are not foliated. Link to collation model at end of record.

Layout: Written in 24-29 long lines with varying margins.

Script: Written in a number of different German cursive hands.

Binding: 19th-century cloth (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in Rheinhessen-Pfalz and vicinity (?) from 1511 (f. 199v, 200r, 201v, 202r) through 1527 (f. 80-83).

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. 81 (Ms. German 11).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1089.

OCLC:

183421339

Access Restriction:

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Online:

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