Jeffery & Yates, Descriptive inventories: Austrian libraries, v. 2, p. 239-241
Notes:
This MS has no 17c St. Georgenberg ownership marks. See also Karl Gustav Homeyer, Die deutschen Rechtsbucher des Mittelalters und ihre Handschriften (Weimar 1931-4) 75, no. 346.
Provenance:
Pasted over back pastedown (16c-17c?) two printed coats of arms,one the two-haded Habsburg eagle, the other with what is probably a pine cone.
Physical Issues:
Folio
Reproduction:
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Lombard initials, some of them divided, in the texts on ff. 1r-92r.
Notes:
Foliated 1-139 in a recent hand (first leaf unnumbered). Stubs of many excised leaves are visible. Four main hands; others visible in the probations and ff. 116r-117r, 130r-139r.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
1r-63r
Supplied Title:
Schwabenspiegel Kurzform Landesrecht
Rubric:
Hye hebt an das landsrecht puech wye man all sache Richten soll. Hye hebt das lantrecht puech ayn ennde.
Incipit:
Herre gott himellischer vatter durch dem milte gut
Explicit:
ire recht vor allem weltlichem gericht mit recht.
Language(s):
German
Notes To Text:
A form of this text is edited by Karl August Eckhardt in Schwabenspiegel Kurzform 1, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Fontes iuris germanici antiqui, n.s. IV, 1-2 (Hanover 1960-61). ff. 88r-91r: Chapter headings.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
63r-88r
Supplied Title:
Schwabenspiegel Kurzform, Lehensrecht
Rubric:
Hye hebt sich an das lehenpuech. Des pueches ennde.
Incipit:
Wer lehensrecht kunnen welle der volge dises puche
Explicit:
Colophon: Hye hat daz lehenpuch ain ende alle lehe
Language(s):
German
Notes To Text:
A form of this is edited by Eckhardt in MGH, Fontes iuris germanici antiqui, n.s. IV, 2. Ff 91r-92r: Chapter headings.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
93r-95v
Supplied Title:
Charter
Incipit:
Wir lewpold von gotes gnaden herzog ze Osterreich
Explicit:
Mit urkund des bryeffs geben ze gracz an dem phing
Language(s):
German
Notes To Text:
f. 92v: blank, except for rulings, a probatio, and dirt. ff. 96r-98v: blank, except for rulings and (on 96r) a probatio of two words.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
99r-115v
Supplied Title:
Charters
Incipit:
Wir Ludwig von gottes gnaden Romischer kaiser zu a
Explicit:
mit meiner eygen handt undtergeschriben.
Language(s):
German
Notes To Text:
The documents date from 1342 to 1486. Many name a scribe who copied them in his own hand from the original. But as different scribes are named and this section is entirely in one hand, it is evident that the notes do not refer to this copy
Manuscript Text
Folio:
116r-117r
Supplied Title:
Parts of additional documents copied in various hands, some crossed out.
Language(s):
German
Notes To Text:
116v blank. 117r Another charter copied in a very poor hand. 117v-119r blank, except for rulings.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
119v-129v
Supplied Title:
Charters
Incipit:
Nota zu der zeyt Als man zallt tawsennd Vierhunder
Explicit:
Durch so erhalten [. . .].
Language(s):
German
Notes To Text:
The last breaks off abruptly at the end of the folio. Stubs following this folio show that leaves have been removed. The text on ff. 120r-v is entitled: Wie das Pergwergk aufkommen ist.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
130r-139r
Supplied Title:
Additional charters in various hands
Language(s):
German
Notes To Text:
Most of these have been crossed out. Folios 134r, 135v, are blank except for rulings.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
139v-back pastedown
Supplied Title:
Probationes. Included are some alphabets, portions of prayers, drawings of horses, deer, boar, snakes, peacocks, chickens, castles and soldiers carrying flags.
Language(s):
German
Notes To Text:
Pinecone coat of arms pasted over the back pastedown may be the arms of Augsburg; it is similar to an Augsburg coat of arms printed by Virgil Solis in Nurnberg, 1555. See Virgil Solis' Wappenbuchlein, ed. G. Hirth, Liebhaber-Bibliothek (Munich 1886) 25.
