[Documents of the town of Châtenois]

Date:

1478

Description:

Book of documents (Copialbuch; Urkundenbuch) of the town of Châtenois (German, Kestenholz), in the département of Bas-Rhin, region of Alsace, France. At the time that the book was begun, in 1478 (f. 1r), the town was in the possession of the archbishop of Strasbourg. The documents include oaths and regulations (Ordnungen) governing citizenship and various offices or professions; several agreements, notices, or petitions; and the recording of supervisors of the fields (Bannwarten, Rebbannwarten) and the prices of wine (Weinschlag), entered annually until 1762 (f. 151v) and 1788 (f. 142v), respectively. The last entries (f. 153r-154r) are mostly in French and record taxes on (or prices of?) wine from 1789 to 1832. Remains of leather finding tabs (f. 30, 47, 94).

Language:

German; French

Provenance:

Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1952.

Relation:

Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/153

Subject:

Wine and wine making -- Law and legislation -- France -- Alsace; Wine and wine making -- Law and legislation

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); government records; Manuscripts, German; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

152 leaves : paper; 318 x 200 mm bound to 335 x 218 mm

Geographic Subject:

Châtenois (Bas-Rhin, France) -- History -- Sources; France -- Alsace

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Collation: Paper, 148 + iv; 1⁸(-1) 2⁶(-1) 3¹⁰ 4⁶ 5⁸ 6⁶ 7⁸ 8¹⁰ 9⁸ 10¹⁰ 11⁶ 12¹⁰ 13⁶(-5) 14¹⁰(-8, 9, 10) 15⁸(-2) 16⁴(-1) 17⁶ 18⁸ 19⁶ 20¹⁰(-10) 21⁶ 22²(2 is pastedown); 1-42, 44-94, [i], 95-114,121-154 (f. 103-105, 121, 122, 131, and 152 are blank); contemporary foliation, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: Written in long lines, with varying line-spacing and margins.; Script: Written in multiple German cursive hands.; Decoration: Some initial flourishes and some headings in more formal book script throughout, with some instances of more embellished initials (f. 58r, 58v, 59r, 65v, 66r, 66v, 132v, 133r, 139r, 140r).; Binding: 16th-century half-pigskin over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch).; Origin: Written in Châtenois, France, from 1478 through 1832.; German, with some French on two leaves (f. 153-154).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1098