Legal Document (fragment).

Description

Title: Legal Document (fragment).
Published / Created: [between 1490 and 1499].
Publication Place: Enneberg, Tyrol
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of a legal document containing a document concerning tenure of land; an account of the election of Maximilian, Archduke of Austria and Duke of Burgundy, as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1486; and a brief description of how one is to celebrate the feast of a newly canonized saint
Description: In German and Latin.
Script: written in cursive gothic script (littera cursiva), similar to that of the scribe who wrote the document in MS 482.143.
Decoration: the document begins with a flourished initial; there is no punctuation.
Provenance: The fragment was used as the front flyleaf in the binding of Beinecke Library, Zi +4486, copy 2; it was taken out of the volume before 1946, when the book was acquired by Yale.
Extent: ff. 1 : 286 x 205 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: German

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Legal documents
Subjects: Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Legal documents
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Legal Document (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.