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Legal Document (fragment)
Title
Legal Document (fragment).
Created
Tyrol, [between 1490 and 1499].
Physical Description
ff. 1 : parchment ; 177 x 286 mm.
Language
German
Notes
Script: written in a cursive gothic script (littera cursiva) in a hand similar to that of the scribe who wrote the document in MS 482.144.
Decoration: the first word of the document ("Ich") is enlarged, with the initial "I" trailing down the margin of the entire text; there is no punctuation.
In German and Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Robert G. Babcock, Lisa Fagin Davis, and Philip G. Rusche.
Provenance
The fragment was used as a flyleaf in the back cover of Beinecke Library, Zi +4486, copy 2; the flyleaf was removed from the binding before 1946, when the incunable was acquired by Yale.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a contract concerning land near Bruneck, a description in Latin of the damage to Mohammed's tomb in Mecca by a storm in 1481, and an account of the coronation of Emperor Maximilian I at Aachen in 1486, written in southern German dialect.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 24, 2016
References
Legal Document (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Legal Document (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Germany - 15th century.
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