[Guild regulations]

Alternate Title:

Handwergs Büchlein

Name:

Johann Friedrich II, Herzog von Sachsen, 1529-1595

Date:

1558

Description:

Hand-sewn booklet of guild regulations for the coopers (Bottiger) of Triptis, drawn up under the auspices of the landgrave (Landgraf) of Thuringia, Johann Friedrich II, whose statements preface and conclude the document.

Language:

German

Provenance:

Sold by Ivan Volkoff (Pasadena, Calif.), 1960.

Subject:

Guilds -- Germany; Guilds

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Articles of incorporation; Manuscripts, German; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

8 leaves : paper; 295 x 198 mm

Geographic Subject:

Germany; Thuringia (Germany) -- History -- Sources

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Paper, 8; [1-8]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: Written in a German cursive script.; Decoration: Initials of rubrics and sections with flourishes; section rubrics written in a more formal book script.; Origin: Written in Triptis (Thuringia, Germany) in 1558 (f. 7v).; German.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1109