Unidentified legal treatise
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General Information
Original Condition
Current Condition
The upper part and the margin of the bifolium were cut off.
Content
History
The manuscript was written in Prague in the 1490s (paper watermarks) and was also bound there. It can be assumed that the fragment used to strengthen the binding was also created here.
We do not know how the manuscript ended up in Prussia, perhaps it was obtained (rewritten?) by the unknow clergyman of the Teutonic Knights during his Prague studies. It may have belonged to the cathedral library in Königsberg. After the secularization of Teutonic Prussia by prince Albrecht Hohenzollern (1525) and before the end of the first half of the 16th century, the manuscript was placed in the castle library in Königsberg. In 1827 the castle library was merged with the University Library - the Royal (then State) and University Library in Königsberg was established in this way. The manuscript was there until 1944.
Then, as a result of the evacuation of the most valuable collections of the library and the change of state borders after the second world war, the evacuated books (among them the host volume) found themselves in the territory of the Polish state. In July 1946, by the decision of the Ministry of Education, they were transferred to the University Library in Toruń.
Host Volume
Cutleather binding made in a Prague workshop around 1400
Bibliography
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Katalog rękopisów średniowiecznych Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Toruniu, ed. M. Czyżak in cooperation with M. Jakubek-Raczkowska, A. Wagner, Toruń 2016, p. 176 (il.), 177-178, 179 (il.)