AM 8 8vo
Danish Legal Manuscript ; Denmark, most probably Jutland, 1550-1599
Contents
Rules of the Law
On the Duties of the Judges
The Provincial Law of Jutland
Fol. 11v has a quotation from the Bible concerning the right use of the law, written in the younger hand.
Articles by the Clerc Thord
„Tord degen“
62 chapters
After chapter 62 the younger hand has added some notes on weights and measures with an index for Articles by the Clerc Thord.
The Law of the Kingdom
The Manorial Court Law
„Gordtz Retth“
Expanded with the twenty-fifth article from Christian II's Copenhagen Recess, 1537
On f. 202v a younger hand wrote an index.
Kong Frederik II's Københavnske skik og ordning af år 1569 om stævninger mm
The Kolding Recess, 1558
Provided with an elaborate title.
Cotaining an index.
The originally blank fol. 263v contains the beginning of an index which was later crossed out.
King Frederik II's Coronation Charter, 1559
„Konningh Frederichs den Andens Handfestning, wdgiffuen 1559“
Supplied with an index.
King Frederik II's Maritime Law, 1561
Quotation from the Old Testament
Annalistic Notes Concerning Denmark
Register of the Law
Cases with a Penalty of Forty Marks
Cases with a Penalty of Three Marks
An Explanation of the Danish Coat of Arms
Enn herlig werdenns statut
„Enn herlig werdenns statut“
Listing social conditions and immoralities causing the ruin of a kingdom.
Formulae
Letter Formula for a Letter for Kieler Umschlag, 1573
Kieler Umschlag was a annual trading fair and money market.
Letter Formula for an Interest Rate Letter, Aalborg 1595
Written by an aristocrat.
A Christian Alphabet
„Itt Christeligt a-b-c colli|gerit aff thenn gamle |Philosophiske Schrifft wdi |huilckenn er beschreffwen |och optegnit mannge Christe|lige Lerdom och wnderwis|ning som hwer Christ|en well fornödenn |er att wide“
Each letter opens a moral verse in six lines.
Physical Description
Paper.
At the fly-leaf, now foliated as f. 1, apothegms occur in Latin, German and Greek.
Blind tooled leather binding. The fitting and the clasps are of metal.
History
The main part of the manuscript is written in Denmark, most probably Jutland, in the second half of the sixteenth century. According to a note on f. 263r, 276v and 302r the younger additions are written on the manor Vang, near Aalborg, Northern Jutland in 1595. Fol. 38 is written in a third hand in 1646.
The fly-leaf carrying the date 1593 has Johannes Vincentij f. Medendorphius on the top page. At the bottom page Benedictus Heliæ filius claims himself as owner, he paid 1 1/2 rigsdaler for the book. At the pastedown the following note is found: Ex dono Nobilissimi Domini IOHANNIS CONRADI WULFFEN Summi Archiatri Regii possidet Fridericus Rostgaard. November 1704 .
Bibliography
Title: Historieskrivningen og Historieskriverne i Danmark og Norge siden Reformationen
Editor: Kolderup-Rosenvinge, J. L. A.
Scope: III
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Contents
×- Rules of the Law
- List of Cases
- On the Duties of the Judges
- The Provincial Law of Jutland
- Articles by the Clerc Thord
- The Law of the Kingdom
- The Manorial Court Law
- Kong Frederik II's Københavnske skik og ordning af år 1569 om stævninger mm
- The Kolding Recess, 1558
- King Frederik II's Coronation Charter, 1559
- King Frederik II's Maritime Law, 1561
- Quotation from the Old Testament
- Annalistic Notes Concerning Denmark
- Register of the Law
- An Explanation of the Danish Coat of Arms
- Enn herlig werdenns statut
- Formulae
- Letter Formula for a Letter for Kieler Umschlag, 1573
- Letter Formula for an Interest Rate Letter, Aalborg 1595
- A Christian Alphabet