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

Title

Chart of Consanguinity; Schwabenspiegel Landrecht (Common Law of the Swabians)

Other related names

• Wright, Harrison, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 69
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 163

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)

Origin

Place

Bavaria?, Germany

Summary

This manuscript is a late fourteenth-century German manuscript containing a Chart of Consanguinity and the Schwabenspiegel Landrecht (Common Law of the Swabians).

Notes

• Becker identifies the script as bâtarde
   

Extent

I+184+i; 310 x 214 mm bound to 317 x 220 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-14 (12), 15 (16)

Signatures

Signatures throughout the last half of the manuscript, in red, lower right (alongside catchwords); "8" on 96v, "10" on 120v, "11" on 132v, partial "12" on 144v, "14" on 168v, "14" on 184v

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Catchwords throughout, heavily trimmed but visible; lower right, on 12v, 24v, 36v, 48v, 60v, 72v, 84v, 96v, 108v, 120v, 132v, 144v, 156v, 168v

Binding

19th century paper boards

Layout

One column of twenty-two to twenty-eight lines; unlined; frame-ruled in light-brown ink; written area: 205 x 123 mm

Decoration

Large initial in brown and red with penwork tracery (fol. 1r); red two- and three-line initials throughout; headings touched up in red

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Provenance

• Harrison Wright, Wilkes-Barre, PA; his sale, Philadelphia, June 11, 1908, no. 238; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2055, no. 163.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 75, no. 69 (+ Supplement).
• Hans-Jürgen Becker. "Eine unbekannte Handschrift des Schwaben- und Augsburger Sachsenspiegels." Zietschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Germanistische Abteiling 88 (1971): 190-197

Keywords

• Document
• 14th century
• German
• Gothic
• Germany
• Legal
• History

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Flyleaf 1 verso — Print catalog entry
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Print catalog entry

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial H
• fol. 74v — Marginal notation
• fol. 159r — Marginal notation
• fol. 164r — Decorated initial W