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

Title

Golden Bull of Charles IV

Authors

• Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, 1316-1378 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80081765.html)

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Davis & Harvey, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81097143.html)
• Wright, Harrison, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 64
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 191

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This manuscript contains a Golden Bull of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, 1316-1378.

Extent

I+36+i; 305 x 210 mm bound to 315 x 222 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto

Collation

1-3 (12)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords; lower inner margin verso; fols 12, 24

Binding

Boards

Layout

Ruled in hard point; one column of twenty-seven to thirty-four lines; written area: 200 x 125 mm

Decoration

Initials with some decorative pen flourishing and extension of ascenders and descenders

Script

Gothic cursive

Provenance

• Harrison Wright, Wilkes-Barre, PA; his sale, Davis & Harvey, Philadelphia, June 11, 1908, no. 237; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• Pontifical
• 15th century
• German
• Charter
• Germany
• Legal

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