[Guild regulations]

Alternate Title:

Handberges Büchlein

Date:

1534

Description:

Hand-sewn booklet of guild regulations for the coopers (Bütticher) of Neustadt an der Orla. A prefatory statement indicates that the two current masters (Meister), Claus Keil and Nickel Lüdewigs, along with the town's entire guild (Handwerg), have asked that the regulations be newly issued and confirmed at this time.

Language:

German

Provenance:

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

Subject:

Guilds -- Germany; Guilds

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); articles of incorporation; Manuscripts, German; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

10 leaves : paper; 325 x 208 mm

Geographic Subject:

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

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Foliation: Paper, 10; [1-10]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right corner.; Script: Written in a German cursive hand.; Decoration: Initials of rubrics and sections with flourishes.; Origin: Written in Neustadt an der Orla (Thuringia, Germany) in 1534 (f. 2r).; German.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1110