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Title

Pawilhar

Other related names

• Suchier, Hermann, 1848-1914, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1202
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943226253503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232609267
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4322625

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

French, with citations and margin notes in Latin

Origin

Date

after 1521

Place

Liège, Belgium

Summary

A Pawilhar (or Pawillart) was the title for the compilation of laws, privileges, and customs of the county and the city of Liège. Such compilations circulated widely under this title in a variety of forms and comprises laws from different periods of Liège's history. This particular codex begins with a copy of Alyance defencive (alliance defensive), which outlines the terms for the treaty of St. Trond that established an alliance between the previously neutral Liège and the Burgundian Netherlands in 1518. Some of the laws in the compilation date as far back as the 14th century; the most recent law is from 1521. The script and the decorations in this codex suggest that it was composed as an official copy. A Constitution du Conseil from 27 July 1521 follows this decoration.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from spine.
   
• Incipit: Alyance defencive: nous pr[- -ost] soucy Archdiacre [et] chappittre nobles baron et bas[c]htau[x] burghemrie... (f. 1r); Explicit: ... et puis ainsy [ad] ma[n]date Cic[saric] et catholi[qu]e ma[jes]te ppri[m- -] ha[mm]art (f. 269v).
   

Watermark

Outer leaves depict a coat of arms with a horn and an inscription Holland; these outer leaves have no writing on them and are thinner than the leaves with text; leaves with writing have a crowned vase as a watermark.

Extent

269 leaves : 295 x 200 (230 x 150) mm. bound to 305 x 210 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (modern paper) + 269 + xi (modern paper); 1-269; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Half calf (Zacour-Hirsch); detached spine and upper cover; gilt spine with title Pawilhar.

Layout

Written in 34 long lines; text block outlined in ink.

Decoration

Rubricated initials, capitals, headings, and paragraph marks; manicule (f. 120r); a full-page coat of arms with a double headed eagle holding two shields (f. 258v); the first shield, in the middle of the eagle's chest, depicts a lion on top of a red and white checkered board, the second shield with a white stripe in the middle of a red shield is held sideways by the eagle's tail.

Script

Written in a secretary script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Hermann Suchier (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Customary law--Belgium--Liège

Genres

• Codices
• Laws
• Customaries
• Manuscripts, French--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Legal
• Belgium
• French
• Paper
• Charter

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Alyance defencive, f. 1r
• fol. 5r — Compilation of laws, privileges, and customs of Lie?ge, f. 5r
• fol. 259r — Constitution du Conseil, f. 259r

Decorations

• fol. 33v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 33v
• fol. 64v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 64v
• fol. 71v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 71v
• fol. 71v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 71v
• fol. 81v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 81v
• fol. 93v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 93v
• fol. 93v — Decorated initial, Initial I, Fish, f. 93v
• fol. 120r — Manicule, f. 120r
• fol. 258v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 258v
• fol. 259v — Manicule, f. 259v