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[Guild regulations].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 1110
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- 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:
- 10 leaves : paper ; 325 x 208 mm
- Production:
- Neustadt an der Orla (Germany), 1534.
- Other Title:
- Handberges Büchlein
- Language Note:
- German.
- Summary:
- Hand-sewn booklet of guild regulations for the coopers (Bütticher) of Neustadt an der Orla. A prefatory statement indicates that the two current masters (Meister), Claus Keil and Nickel Lüdewigs, along with the town's entire guild (Handwerg), have asked that the regulations be newly issued and confirmed at this time.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Foliation: Paper, 10; [1-10]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right corner.
- Script: Written in a German cursive hand.
- Decoration: Initials of rubrics and sections with flourishes.
- Origin: Written in Neustadt an der Orla (Thuringia, Germany) in 1534 (f. 2r).
- 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 25).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1110
- OCLC:
- 190864589
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