Unidentified legal treatise

F-mfvu

Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Rps 43/III

General Information

Title Unidentified legal treatise
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Prague?

Original Condition

Page Width at least 160 mm
Width of Written Area at least 130 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns at least 60 mm
Line Height 4 – 5 mm

Current Condition

Dimensions 120 x 295
More about the Current Condition

The upper part and the margin of the bifolium were cut off.

Content

  • Content Item
    • _65A9849_raw

History

Origin

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.

Provenance

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.

Persons and Institutions 1. Unknown clergyman of the Teutonic Order; 2. Cathedral library in Königsberg?; 3. Prince Albrecht's Hohenzollern castle library in Königsberg; 4. Royal (since 1918: State) and University Library in Königsberg; 5. University Library in Toruń

Host Volume

Title Lectura super primo libro Decretalium Gregorii IX
Date of Origin/Publication 90s of the fourteenth century
Shelfmark Ms 43/III
Remarks

Cutleather binding made in a Prague workshop around 1400 

Bibliography

  • 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.)