Miscellaneous manuscripts (Large), 1721.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Holy Roman Empire. Emperor (1711-1740 : Charles VI)

Contributor:

Punz, Nicolaus.

Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, 1685-1740.

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Latin

Subjects (All):

Hirschel, Marx.

Stift Klosterneuburg.

Jews--Austria--Vienna--History--Sources.

Jews.

History.

Austria--Vienna.

Genre:

Government records.

Manuscripts, German.

Sources.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (bookplate, inside upper cover).

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf)

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Large). Box 2 Folder 5

Place of Publication:

1721.

Language Note:

In German with some Latin phrases.

Summary:

Copies of 2 resolutions issued by the imperial government in Vienna in 1721 at the time that Charles VI would have been Holy Roman Emperor, both signed by Nicolaus Punz (or possibly: Prinz) under the attestation: Per imperatorem. The resolutions, which appear to be unrelated, are written on the recto and verso of the same leaf, each headed with a summarizing rubric. The first resolution, dated 31 March 1721 (recto), concerns the case of 12 beggar Jews (Bettl-Juden) who were found to be residing in Vienna without permission, at the residence of Marx Hirschel, a Jew who evidently had permission to reside in the city (Hirschel was the business representative in Vienna of Behrend Lehmann, a court Jew of Saxony). The resolution indicates that the beggar Jews would be held for 8 days in prison; that any other beggar Jews in the city would be sought in the meantime; and that they would all then be expelled, at the expense of Hirschel and anyone else who had given them refuge, with further prosecution threatened if they ever re-entered the city. It is mentioned that Hirschel's responsibility in the matter would be dealt with separately. The second resolution, dated 5 September 1721 (verso), concerns a jurisdiction dispute (Strittigkeit) between the imperial court of the city and district of Vienna (kaijserlichen Statt- und Landgericht), and the Klosterneuburg monastery (Stifft). It seems to be setting out a general principle to be followed in matters involving property or effects claimed by the monastery that are required to be turned over to the court in the prosecution of a case, with particular respect to a current case involving the effects of a resigned cleric of the monastery (deren resignirten ... Farrern Verlassenschafften betrf.).

Contents:

1. f. 1r: Judenschafft, so nit privilegiret hier zu sein solle mit Abschwöhrung der Urphed hier geschoben werden, also nachstehend allergnädigsten Resolution [Vienna, 31 March 1721].

2. f. 1v: Jurisdictions-Strittigkeit, zwischen dem alhiesigen kaijserlichen Statt- und Landgericht, dan den Stifft Closterneuburg, in puncto der Extradirung deren aberubten Effecten und corporum delictorum, ist laut nachstehende allergnädigsten Resolutions-Extract de dato Wien den 5ten September 1721 volgendermassen entschiden.

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. 181 (Ms. Lea 159).

OCLC:

235955382