Von Gottes gnaden, Wyr Augustus, Herzog zu BrunsWyg und LunäBurg, &c. Haben aus unterschydlichen Fällen war genommen, was Gestalt weegen der Abzuggelder, oder des dritten Pfennigs, so in Unserm Fürstentuum ... gebräuchlich, ein und ander Irrtuum und Misverstand entstanden ... : Gescheehen in Unserer Vestung Wulffenbüttel, den 30. Octobr. des 1651. Jares.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Braunschweig (Duchy)

Contributor:

August, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, 1579-1666.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Law--Germany--Braunschweig--Early works to 1800.

Law.

Braunschweig (Germany : State)--History--Sources.

Braunschweig (Germany : State).

Germany--Braunschweig.

Genre:

Broadsides -- Germany -- Wolfenbüttel -- 17th century.

Penn Provenance:

August, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, 1579-1666 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

August, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, 1579-1666 (autograph) (seal) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 31 x 34 cm

Other Title:

Brunswick Pamphlets. box 37 no. 31 PU

Brunswick Pamphlets. box 37 no. 32 PU

Fingerprint:

s,l, n.ch n.rn rmn- (S) 1655 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Wolfenbüttel?] : [publisher not identified], [1655]

Notes:

Broadside.

Title from beginning of text.

Imprint from VD 17.

Initials.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copies 1 and 2 are box 37, no. 31 and 32, respectively, in a collection of early modern German legal pamphlets and broadsides issued in Braunschweig or (later) the Napoleonic kingdom of Westphalia.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 signed at end by August, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1579-1666).

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has at foot of document faint rounded oval applied seal of validation (presumably red shellac), with hole in top center and damage to design and legend. Size: 45 x 35 mm. Design and legend lost.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has early ms. correction in brown ink to date of promulgation (from "1651" to "1655") on final line; illegible early ms. inscription in upper right corner of recto; inscription in pencil ("30 Oct, 1655") in bottom right of recto; partially illegible early ms. inscription in brown ink on verso ("Mandatum Im Abzug des dritten Pfenninges [...] 1655.").

Culture Class Collection copy 1: portions of lower left and lower right corners torn off, with minor damage to autograph and last five lines of text.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 signed at end by August, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1579-1666).

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has at foot of document fair rounded oval applied wafer seal of validation (paper, 82 x 78 mm., presumably over red shellac); right portion of impression indistinct with some loss of legend. Design: arms of August, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1579-1666). Legend (start point at top of seal): VGG:AU[...]USTU[...]H.ZU*B[...] SCH WEIC [...]N[...]N[...]R[...].

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has early ms. correction in brown ink to date of promulgation(from "1651" to "1655"); partially illegible early ms. inscription in brown ink on verso ("Im Abzug[...] Gold, [...] Pfenning [...]").

Culture Class Collection copy 2: sheet closely cropped at bottom left with minor damage to autograph.

Cited in:

Petersen, W. Verzeichnis der Einblattdrucke und Handschriften ... Braunschweig-Lüneburg, 1433

VD 17 23:678607P

OCLC:

795834193