Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Schwabenspiegel

Other related names

• Coleman, George Dawson, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/856146936611013780116/#Coleman,_George_Dawson,_1825-1878)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 260
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This manuscript contains the text of Schwabenspiegel, legal code concerning land ownership and other matters.

Watermark

Bull's head with an attached star/flower (fols. 1, 56)

Extent

Iii+65+ii; 280x195 mm bound to 288x204 mm

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in red ink upper center of margin recto

Collation

1 (8), 2-4 (12), 5 (11, +11), 6 (10)

Support

Paper

Layout

Frame-ruled in lead in two columns of variable lines ranging from forty-five to fifty-two

Decoration

Two-line initials in red decorated with foliate designs throughout; decorative faces in ascenders and initials; rubrication throughout

Script

Gothic--cursive

Keywords

• Treatise
• 15th century
• German
• Gothic
• Drawing
• Charter
• Germany
• Legal
• History

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

  To the extent possible under law, Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 260: Schwabenspiegel. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Decorations

• fol. 41r — Decorated initial D