Codex Palatinus germanicus 8

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Cod. Pal. germ. 8, sheet 2r: Treaty between Elector Friedrich II of the Palatinate and King Franz I of France , June 14, 1546
Cod. Pal. germ. 8, sheet 39r: Letter from the botanist Jakobus Theodorus from Bergzabern (Tabernaemontanus) to Elector Friedrich III. von der Pfalz , January 12, 1576

The Codex Palatinus germanicus 8 is an early modern manuscript from the former Bibliotheca Palatina in Heidelberg . The Codex belongs to the Codices Palatini germanici , the German-language manuscripts of the Palatina, which have been kept in the Heidelberg University Library since 1816 ; The signature of the Heidelberg University Library and the common scientific name is Cod. Pal. germ. 8 (short form: Cpg 8 ).

The composite manuscript contains letters and other documents from the 16th and 17th centuries, primarily those to and from the Palatinate electors.

description

Cod. Pal. germ. 8, sheet 78r: Letter from Elector Frederick IV of the Palatinate to the mayor and the city council of Nuremberg, May 1, 1597 (page 1 of 2)
Cod. Pal. germ. 8, sheet 78v: Letter from Elector Frederick IV of the Palatinate to the mayor and the city council of Nuremberg, May 1, 1597 (page 2 of 2)

Most of the documents in the Codex are made of paper, sheets 2 and 258 are parchment manuscripts.

The total of 338 sheets of this manuscript have different formats (documents, letters, notes). They used to be tied together in 11 or 12 fascicles . On the pages of the manuscript there are pencil entries by a previous editor on fascicle counting (fascicle 1: sheet 1ar; fasc. 2: sheet 13r; fasc. 3: sheet 42ar; fasc. 4: sheet 68r; fascicle 5: sheet 95r ; Fasc. 6: sheet 129r; fasc. 7: no entry given (!); Fasc. 8: sheet 185r; fasc. 9: sheet 211r; fasc. 10: sheet 235r; fasc. 11: sheet 259r; fasc. 12 : Sheet 279r).

A modern pencil foliation counts the text pages from 1 to 329 (sheet margin lower right, sometimes upper right), but originally the sheets were arranged differently, as can be inferred from the surviving remains of the older Roman foliation from the 17th century (sheet margin top right). On the pages of the manuscript, a chapter division is also noted in pencil, probably from the 19th century.

The handwriting suffers from incipient, sometimes severe, ink corrosion ; some leaves show old mold growth .

In 1908 the codex was restored by the Heidelberg court and university bookbinder Carl Hohmeister, the manuscript was re-bound, all pages were individually joined to folds and the codex was given a new half leather cover with a spine label made of red leather.

origin

Originally with the signature Cod. Pal. Germ. 8 provided manuscript was in the inventory of the Vaticana "recorded as missing or as possibly in Latin".

The librarian Friedrich Wilken , commissioned with the cataloging and return of the German-language parts of the Bibliotheca Palatina from the Vaticana to Heidelberg, received an unbound fascicle with text documents of various kinds in Rome (he names: directory of a coin collection; authentication via a goods transport; various recipes) . However, the contents of the manuscript mentioned by Wilken in 1817 do not match the contents cataloged later (Wille 1903; Zimmermann 2003), but why this is so is unclear. The contents of the collective manuscript, which has been cataloged since 1903, are letters and documents from the Electoral Palatinate State Archives or from the Elector's Office.

Like the other manuscripts of the Electoral Palatinate Libraries, the Codex came into the possession of the Vatican Library in Rome after the conquest of the Electoral Palatinate in the Thirty Years War in 1622 and was only brought to Heidelberg in 1816 with the other German-language holdings of the Palatina as part of the regulations during the Congress of Vienna returned.

Content

The composite manuscript contains more than 300 documents on the history of the Electoral Palatinate , mostly letters, but also certificates, appointments, receipts and invoices.

Among them are correspondence of the Palatine Electors Friedrich II. (R .: 1544–1556; sheets 1r – 33v), Friedrich III. (r .: 1559–1576; sheets 34r – 42v), Friedrich IV. (r .: 1583–1610; sheets 52r – 84v) and Friedrich V. (r .: 1610–1623; sheets 87r – 135v), the administrator der Kurpfalz, Johann Casimir (reign 1583–1592; sheets 42br – 51v), as well as the Dutch cartographer and engineer Johan van den Corput (1542–1611; sheets 301r – 329r), also letters from Amélia d'Orange (1581–1657; Sheets 96r – 114r) to Friedrich V, letters from Duke Johann von Zweibrücken (1584–1635) to his ward Friedrich V and Duke Johann Casimir von Zweibrücken (1589–1652) to Friedrich V (sheets 116r – 123r), as well as letters Countess Palatine Christine (1573–1619, daughter of Elector Ludwig VI of the Palatinate ) to Friedrich V (sheets 126r – 131v).

See also

literature

  • Karin Zimmermann : Cod. Pal. germ. 8. Collection of letters and documents. In: Karin Zimmermann (arrangement), with the participation of Sonja Glauch, Matthias Miller, Armin Schlechter: The Codices Palatini germanici in the Heidelberg University Library (Cod. Pal. Germ. 1–181). Catalogs of the Heidelberg University Library, Volume 6. Reichert Verlag , Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 978-3-89500-152-9 , pp. 15–32 ( digitized version ).

Older catalog:

  • Jakob Wille : Pal. Germ. 8. Mixed files on the history of the XVI. Century In: Jakob Wille: The German Palatinate Manuscripts of the XVI. and XVII. Century of the university library in Heidelberg. With an appendix: the manuscripts of the Batt'schen library. Catalog of the manuscripts of the University Library in Heidelberg, Volume 2. Verlag von Gustav Koester, Heidelberg 1903, pp. 3–6 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Unless otherwise noted, the information in this section follows the description by Karin Zimmermann: Cod. Pal. germ. 8 . In: The Codices Palatini germanici in the Heidelberg University Library (Cod. Pal. Germ. 1–181) . Wiesbaden 2003, p. 15 ( digitized version ; accessed February 17, 2020).
  2. ↑ Zimmermann, Cod. Pal. germ. 8 , Wiesbaden 2003, p. 15, counts 11 fascicles. Will, Pal. Germ. 8 , Heidelberg 1903, p. 3, counts 12 fascicles, but is generally less reliable in the description (see note in the reference).
  3. ↑ s. Overview of the digital copies, Heidelberg University Library; accessed March 6, 2020.
  4. ↑ Example: Sheet 1ar: Letters to Elector Friedrich II and written by him ; s. Karin Zimmermann: Cod. Pal. germ. 8 . In: The Codices Palatini germanici in the Heidelberg University Library (Cod. Pal. Germ. 1–181) . Wiesbaden 2003, p. 15 ( digitized version ; accessed February 17, 2020).
  5. ↑ Unless otherwise noted, the information in this section follows the description by Karin Zimmermann: Cod. Pal. germ. 8 . In: The Codices Palatini germanici in the Heidelberg University Library (Cod. Pal. Germ. 1–181) . Wiesbaden 2003, p. 15 ( digitized version ; accessed January 29, 2020).
  6. ↑ Friedrich Wilken: History of the formation, robbery and destruction of the old Heidelberg book collections [...] together with a [...] directory of the manuscripts returned to the University of Heidelberg in 1816 . August Oswald's Universitäts-Buchhandlung, Heidelberg 1817, p. 308 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ Will, Pal. Germ. 8 , Heidelberg 1903, p. 3; followed by Zimmermann, Cod. Pal. germ. 8 , Wiesbaden 2003, p. 15.
  8. ^ UB Heidelberg : The Bibliotheca Palatina - Fates of a world-famous library ; accessed January 18, 2020.
  9. ↑ Unless otherwise noted, the information in this section follows the description by Karin Zimmermann: Cod. Pal. germ. 8 . In: The Codices Palatini germanici in the Heidelberg University Library (Cod. Pal. Germ. 1–181) . Wiesbaden 2003, pp. 15–32 ( digitized version ; accessed February 17, 2020).
  10. ↑ “Frequently incorrect information”, Zimmermann, Cod. Pal. germ. 8 , Wiesbaden 2003, p. 15.