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Legal opinion

issued by canons of Lübeck

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Cambridge, Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, MS 520

Pludra-Żuk, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2024 (Born Digital)

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Title Legal opinion
Material Parchment
Date of Origin 1296

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      Legal opinion issued by canons of Lübeck concerning the rights of the Elbląg commune to appeal to Lübeck

      [...] cum consules eiusdem civitati privilegio vel cosuetudine ...><... [re]sedimus, ipsam sigillorum nostrorum munimine roborantes.
    • f. iv
    • Edition Codex Diplomaticus Warmiensis, oder Regesten und Urkunden zur Geschichte Ermlands, Bd 1: Urkunden der Jahre 1231–1340, Mainz 1860, no 117, 203–208.
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History

Origin

The document is the second of two legal opinions that has been issued by the canons of Lübeck between 5 January and 24 July 1296 in response to a delegation of Elbląg citizens. It is likely that the copy was made for Teutonic Order in Elbląg, kept in the local castle and afterwards used in a binding. 
Provenance

The host volume is a part of a manuscript collection which was brought from Elbing to Cambridge by an Anglican priest, Richard Pernham, and his wife Mary (her name appears on f. 2v). The Pernhams stayed in Elbing from 1618 to 1626 and were connected to the local English trading post. Some of the volumes contain provenance evidence of the Brigittine monastery, which, in turn, took over (at least partially) the library of the local Teutonic castle.

Previous owners of the host volume:
Laurentius Rothermunt alias Scholen (Schelen)

Host Volume

Title Henricus Wirzeburgensis siue Herbipolensis, De statu curiae Romanae. Petrus Riga, Aurora. Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica (extracts)
Date of Origin/Publication 14th cen.

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