[Guild records].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Guilds--Germany.

Guilds.

Germany.

Ingolstadt (Germany)--History--Sources.

Ingolstadt (Germany).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, German.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Streisand, 1953.

Physical Description:

53 leaves : paper ; 210 x 158 mm

Place of Publication:

Ingolstadt (Bavaria, Germany), 1558-1745.

Language Note:

German.

Summary:

Booklet containing records of the guild of harness-makers (riemer; f. 1r, 2r, 17r) in Ingolstadt, with entries dated from 1558 until 1745. Entries include such information as the names of masters and the establishment of their workshops; the names of apprentices (pueben, bueben, gesellen) taken on; the term of the apprenticeship; the places where the apprentices learned their craft (often localities in Bavaria); and the payment of fees (maistergeldt; f. 16r). The last dated entry notes the purchase of a seal for the guild (handwercks sigl; f. 42v) and other expenditures.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 53; [1-53]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Script: Written in various German cursive scripts by multiple hands.

Binding: Paper wrapper. Folio 1 is completely detached; f. 41 is attached to sewing by a slip of paper fastened with a metal pin. Staining visible due to water and mildew damage; numerous tears at corners and edges.

Origin: Written in Ingolstadt (f. 21r, 29r) from 1558 (f. 1r) through 1745 (f. 42v).

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. 84 (Ms. German 31).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1112

OCLC:

191077767