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Arundel MS 131

Record Id:

040-002039414

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002039280

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x000293

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Arundel MS 131

Title:

German juridical and law texts

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains juridical and law texts in High Middle German, including the Schwabenspiegel, attributed to a Franciscan friar in Augsburg (c. 1275), and the Golden Bull of Emperor Charles IV.

ff. 1v-14v: Register.

ff. 15r-87v: Schwabenspiegel (Common law).

ff. 88r-107v: Schwabenspiegel (Feudal).

ff. 108r-156v: Upper Bavarian Common law of Emperor Louis V of Bavaria (1346).

ff. 157r-181v: The Golden Bull of Emperor Charles IV (1356).

ff. 182v: Municipal law.

[ff. 6v, 12r, 14v, [107a] recto-[107e]verso, and 181v are blank]

Decoration:

3 historiated initials.

The subjects of the miniatures is as follows:

f. 14r: An emperor and seven electors.

f. 88r: A king and princes.

f. 108r: Emperor Ludwig.

1 large initial in gold against a blue background in a purple frame (f. 15r); 1 large initial in blue with red pen-work decoration (f. 157r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Arundel Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002039280
040-002039414

Is part of:

Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts

Arundel MS 131 : German juridical and law texts

Hierarchy:

032-002039280[0132]/040-002039414

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Paper codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

German

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper and parchment.

Dimensions: 290 x 200 (210 x 140) in two columns.

Foliation: ff. 201 ( + 1 modern paper and 1 medieval parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 4 medieval and 1 modern paper flyleaves at the end). Medieval foliation throughout the manuscript; 5 medieval paper leaves with medieval foliation after f. 107 (ff. [107a]-[107e]). ff. 1-15, 88, 108 and 157 are parchment leaves.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: BM/BL in-house. Edges yellow; rebound in 1962.

Custodial History:

Origin: Germany, S.

Provenance:

? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.

Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.

The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp on f. 1r: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.').

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

Robert Priebsch, Deutsche Handschriften in England, 2 vols (Erlangen: Junge, 1896–1901), II, pp. 39-41 (no. 60).

Die Goldene Bulle Kaiser Karls IV. vom Jahre 1356, ed. by Wolfgang D. Fritz, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Fontes iuris Germanici in usum scholarum separatim editi, 11 (Weimar: Böhlaus, 1972), p. 31.

Ulrich-Dieter Oppitz, Deutsche Rechtsbücher des Mittelalters, 3 vols (Cologne: Böhlaus, 1990-1993), Volume 2 (1990): Beschreibung der Handschriften, p. 655 (no. 956).

Stephan Müller, 'Schwabenspiegel' und 'Prosakaiserchronik': Textuelle Aspekte einer Überlieferungssymbiose am Beispiel der Geschichte Karls des Großen’, Wolfram-Studien, 19 (2006), 233-252 (p. 251).

Marie-Luise Heckmann, 'Zeitnahe Wahrnehmung und internationale Ausstrahlung: Die Goldene Bulle Karls IV. im ausgehenden Mittelalter mit einem Ausblick auf die frühe Neuzeit', in Die Goldene Bulle: Politik - Wahrnehmung - Rezeption, 2, ed. by Ulrike Hohensee and others, Berichte und Abhandlungen, Sonderband, 12 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009), pp. 933-1042 (p. 997).

Matthias Johannes Bauer, ‘er nam ain guot end: er versiecht. Sterbende Herrscher und die Konnotationen ihrer Tode in der Prosakaiserchronik (Buch der Könige niuwer ê)’, in Gott und Tod: Tod und Sterben in der höfischen Kultur des Mittelalters, ed. by Susanne Knaeble, Silvan Wagner and Viola Wittmann, Bayreuther Forum Transit, 10 (Münster : LIT, 2011) , pp. 251-66 (p. 265).

Matthias Johannes Bauer, ‘A minimized ‘Prosakaiserchronik’ (burch der koenige niuwer ê) for the ‘Schwabenspiegel’? Remarks on London, British Library, MS Arundel 131’, Medium Aevum Quotidianum, 74 (2017), 5-20.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Material:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series, Vol. 1 (London: Woodfall, 1834), Part 1: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 31:

'Partly paper, partly vellum, in folio, ff. 201, xv. Collection of laws of the German Empire, in five parts, with a very full table of contents prefixed: 1. "Das recht puch das die Pebst und Keyser gemacht liaben." fol. 15.

2. "Das puch der recht uber die lehen." fol. 88.

3. "Das recht puch das Kayser Ludweig gemacht hat, und das puch helt die Payerische recht, und das hat acht und zweinzig puchlein." fol. 108.

4. The Golden Bull of Charles IV. published in 1356; in German. fol. 157.

5. "Die Sachsischen recht." fol. 1 82.

includes:

f. 15 German Empire, Laws of: Das recht puch das die Pebst und Keyser gemacht haben.: Cent. xv.
f. 88 German Empire, Laws of: Das puch der recht iiber die lehen.: Cent. xv.
f. 108 German Empire, Laws of: Das recht puch das Kayser Ludweig gemacht hat, und das puch helt die Payerische recht.: Cent. xv.
f. 157 German Empire and Emperors, History of: CHARLES IV.; reigned from 1347. to 1378. The Golden Bull, published in 1356 ;: in German.: Cent. xv.
f. 182 Saxony, Laws of: Die Sächsischen recht.: Cent. xv.
f. 182 German Empire, Laws of: Die Sachsischen recht.: Cent. xv.'