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[Guild regulations].
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Johann Friedrich II, Herzog von Sachsen, 1529-1595.
- Language:
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Guilds--Germany.
- Guilds.
- Germany.
- Thuringia (Germany)--History--Sources.
- Thuringia (Germany).
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- articles of incorporation
- Manuscripts, German.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Ivan Volkoff (Pasadena, Calif.), 1960.
- Physical Description:
- 8 leaves : paper ; 295 x 198 mm
- Production:
- Triptis (Thuringia, Germany), 1558.
- Other Title:
- Handwergs Büchlein
- Language Note:
- German.
- Summary:
- Hand-sewn booklet of guild regulations for the coopers (Bottiger) of Triptis, drawn up under the auspices of the landgrave (Landgraf) of Thuringia, Johann Friedrich II, whose statements preface and conclude the document.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Foliation: Paper, 8; [1-8]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Script: Written in a German cursive script.
- Decoration: Initials of rubrics and sections with flourishes; section rubrics written in a more formal book script.
- Origin: Written in Triptis (Thuringia, Germany) in 1558 (f. 7v).
- 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. 83 (Ms. German 24).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1109
- OCLC:
- 190861443
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