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Title

Rule, statutes, and customs of the Teutonic Order

Authors

• Teutonic Knights

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1087
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942343163503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182791975
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4234316

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Mostly German, with benedictions in Latin (f. 22v-23r)

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Germany

Summary

The rule, statutes, and customs of the Teutonic Order (Deutschen Orden), also known as the Teutonic Knights, or Brothers, of the Hospital of St. Mary of the German House in Jerusalem, in 3 parts: 1. The rule and life of the order (f. 2v-8v), including a prologue (f. 2v-3r) that discusses the order's founding in 1190, 2. the statutes, or laws, of the order (f. 9r-16r), 3. and the customs, or other laws (alia statuta), of the order (f. 16r-22r). The conclusion of the third section is followed by papal and imperial indulgences, or confirmations (f. 22r-22v), and then by papal benedictions in Latin (f. 22v-23r). The codex includes a table of contents (f. 1r-2r), with references only to section numbers, rather than to page or leaf numbers. The manuscript seems to have been part of a larger work (Sterns); the remnants of a finding tab (f. 2) mark the beginning of the text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• A note found with the manuscript, perhaps dating from the 19th century, claims that the manuscript once belonged to the Commandery of Beuggen, but no evidence in the manuscript appears to support this claim.
   

Extent

23 leaves : 273 x 203 (203 x 150-155) mm. bound to 276 x 205 mm. +

Collation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 23 + i (modern paper); 1¹¹(+ 10, f. 10, the other end of which is pasted down on f. 2r) 2¹²; [1-23]; modern pencil foliation, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern half vellum.

Layout

Written in 44-58 long lines.

Decoration

2-line initials in red at beginnings of sections; rubrics in red. Initial letters of sentences generally stroked with red.

Script

Written in a German cursive hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York), 1954.
   

Subjects topical

• Teutonic Knights--History--Sources
• Teutonic Knights--Privileges and immunities

Genres

• Codices
• Finding tabs
• Manuscripts, German--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Paper
• German
• Germany
• History
• Charter
• Legal

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Table of contents, f. 1r
• fol. 2v — Dy? Regel und Leben der Bruder Sancte Marie des Deutschen Ordens von Jherusalem, f. 2v
• fol. 9r — Di Statuten des selbigen Ordens, f. 9r
• fol. 16r — Alia statuta, f. 16r
• fol. 22r — [Ancillary papal and imperial pronouncements], f. 22r

Decorations

• fol. 2r — Finding tab, f. 2r
• fol. 2v — Finding tab, f. 2v