Ausführliche Nachricht oder Beschreibung von denen churfürstl[ich] sächs[ischen] Land- und Ausschuss-Tägen, von anno 1185 biss ad annum 1718, auch wie die Steüern und Anlagen nacheinander eingeführet und erhöhet worden, ingleichen wie die Bewilligung geschehen ist

Contributor:

Zech, Bernhard von, 1649-1720 (attributed name); Moser, Friedrich Carl, Freiherr von, 1723-1798 (attributed name); Schreber, Daniel Gottfried, 1708-1777 (attributed name)

Timespan:

1423-1815

Date:

1728

Description:

Treatise concerning the history of legislative assemblies (Landtagen), including so-called committee assemblies (Ausschusstagen), in the electorate of Saxony from 1185 until 1718, with a particular focus on the history of taxation. The manuscript evidently corresponds to a work that has been attributed to Bernhard von Zech, who served as a minister at the Saxon court in Dresden from 1691 until his death. That work was first published in 1753 by Friedrich Carl von Moser in his edited series Diplomatische und historische Belustigungen (vol. 1, pp. 185-336). A second, expanded version was published by Daniel Gottfried Schreber in 1754 (2nd edition in 1769), under a title that extended the analysis to the year 1728 (Ausführliche Nachricht von den churfürstlich-sächsischen Land- und Ausschusstägen von 1185 bis 1728); Schreber apparently added two appendices, including a table of Saxon legislative assemblies up to 1731. In 1793, a 3rd edition of Schreber's version was published, in which the table of legislative assemblies was extended by an unknown author to the year 1787. The present manuscript contains a list of the legislative assemblies up to 1728 (p. 19), as well as two displays concerning the rates of certain taxes (Pfennig-Steuern; Quatembersteuern), with the years listed up to 1750 (pp. 126, 129), although data is given only up to 1704.

Language:

German

Provenance:

Sold by Theodor Ackerman (Munich), 1968.

Subject:

Taxation -- Germany -- Saxony; Taxation

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Treatises; Histories; Manuscripts, German; Manuscripts, European

Physical Description:

94 leaves : paper; 298 x 187 (245 x 118) mm bound to 305 x 200 mm

Geographic Subject:

Saxony (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 1423-1815; Germany -- Saxony

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (p. 1).; Pagination: Paper, 94; 1, 2, 11-190, 199-204 (pp. 180-190, 199-204 are blank); contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Layout: Written in 33 long lines, with a single vertical ruled line in red ink marking inside margins; rubrics and, occasionally, citations from sources, written in margins.; Script: Written in a German cursive hand.; Decoration: Initial of title enlarged and decorated, forming part of a design of pen flourishes that encircles title; 2-line decorated initials (pp. 1, 11, 26); pen flourishes over first line of text (p. 11).; Binding: Contemporary boards (Zacour-Hirsch).; Origin: Written in Saxony around 1728 (p. 19).; German.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1178