Danzig wax tablets
The Gdańsk wax tablets are part of a court record book of the judicial districts of the Danzig Commandery from 1368 to 1419.
Together with the Copenhagen wax tablets , they represent an important genealogical as well as a legal historical source for the time of the rule of the Teutonic Order in Gdansk and Pomerania .
They consist of 16, two columns each with wax provided wood panels and have court hearings from the members of the Danziger Commandery jurisdictions Danczk (Danzig) , Sulmin and today the community Kartuzy (Karthaus) belonging Mirchau after. The wax tablets were in the Gdansk City Library, where the city archivist August Bertling transcribed them and published and commented on their still decipherable content in 1884.
The catalog of the manuscripts of the Gdańsk City Library published in 1903 states that the wooden panels are often worm-eaten and that the wax has become illegible due to splitting. The tablets were transferred from the depository to the library in 1608.