Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Collection of privileges

Authors

• Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland (Netherlands),

Call number

Ms. Codex 984
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3663975
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3663975

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Dutch, with some earlier document texts in Middle Dutch and one text in Latin

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1725?

Place

Leiden?

Summary

Copies of privileges, letters, and confirmations concerning the Heemrad van Rijnland, the water board in charge of canals, dikes, and sluices for the region of the Netherlands containing Amsterdam, the Hague, and Gouda. The source documents, each with an introductory paragraph, date from the 13th through the 17th centuries.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

112 leaves : 259 x 208 mm. bound to 272 x 218 mm

Collation

Paper, iii + 112 + ii; 1-14⁸; [1-112]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf with gilt arms of Rijnland on upper and lower covers (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Introductory paragraphs written in shorter lines, with a wide left margin; document copies written in 27 long lines.

Script

Written in two different scripts used for introductions and document copies.

Provenance

• Bookplate in color with coat of arms (f. 1v): Dr. H.T. Habbema van Nieuwveen en Uiterbuurt; stamp with some elements of the bookplate coat of arms (f. 1v): Ambachtsheerlijke 10, Nieuwveen Rijnl.
   
• Purchased, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland (Netherlands)--History
• Dikes (Engineering)--Netherlands--History
• River engineering--Netherlands--History
• Sluices--Netherlands--History
• Privileges and immunities--Netherlands

Genres

• Codices
• Legal instruments
• Manuscripts, Dutch--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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