[Account book]

Date:

1642

Description:

Account book of unidentified guild, recording payment of annual dues ("Jahrschilling"; in at least one instance, the term "Wochen Pfennig" is used, f. 27r), by masters ("Maister") and apprentices ("Khnecht"), as well as expenditures, for every year from 1642 to 1661; an entry for 1662 is unfinished.

Language:

German

Provenance:

Sold by Hugo Streisand (Berlin), 1953.

Subject:

Guilds -- Germany; Guilds; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Account books; Manuscripts, German; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

46 leaves : paper; 317 x 110 (at largest, varying to as small as 315 x 903) mm bound to mm 317 x 110 mm

Geographic Subject:

Germany; Germany -- History -- Sources

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger; date based on earliest date (f. 1r) and latest date (f. 47r) appearing in the item.; Collation: Paper, 46 (ff. 6-24 are blank); 1⁴⁸ (-37, torn out; 48 is pastedown); modern pencil foliation, lower right recto.; Script: Written in a German cursive hand.; Binding: Boards.; Origin: Written in Germany from 1642 through 1662.; German.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1075