Document book

In historical studies, a document book is a printed collection of medieval and early modern documents from a contextual, geographical or factual context. Diplomatarium is also used in older publications and in non-German-speaking countries , otherwise analogous terminology in the respective language. Also Codex diplomaticus is common in older editions.

The document book differs from the copy book and the register , which are not printed, but handwritten collections of documents from the Middle Ages or the early modern period. The document book also differs from the regesta work in that the former usually prints the full text of the documents, while the latter only contains summaries of the content. In document books from the 19th century in particular, however, there are longer passages that only contain regesta of the documents. The latest example is the “Liechtenstein Document Book”, the continuation of which only contains regesta.

Document books by country

Germany:

• Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch : Documents on the history of Mecklenburg up to 1400
• Pomeranian document book : documents on the medieval history of Pomerania
• Prussian document book : documents on the history of Prussia
• Rheinisches Urkundenbuch : Documents about the Rhineland
• Westphalian document book : documents for Westphalia
• Wirtembergisches Urkundenbuch : Documents on the history of Württemberg

Austria:

• Document book on the history of the Babenbergs in Austria : contains all documents relating to the Babenbergs
• Upper Austrian document book : documents on the history of Upper Austria
• Tyrolean document book : all documents relating to the area of ​​historical Tyrol

Municipal charter books

There are also corresponding document books for Free Imperial Cities and other cities:

• Codex diplomaticus Lubecensis : Documents of the City of Lübeck
• Document book of the city of Chemnitz and its monasteries

Other document books

The Hansische Urkundenbuch contains documents for trading on the Baltic Sea and in the Low German area up to 1500.

Monastic document books:

• Document book of the Sanct Gallen Abbey : Documents from the St. Gallen monastery archive on northern and eastern Switzerland , Alsace , Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria and Vorarlberg

Web links

• Document books in the DNB catalog
• Document books. In: wiki.genealogy.net (collection of links to document books in the Google Book Search).
• Codex Diplomaticus Saxoniae Regiae. In: codex.isgv.de (document books of the Margraviate of Meißen , the Hochstift Meißen , the cities of Chemnitz , Dresden , Freiberg , Leipzig etc.).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Liechtenstein document book. In: llv.li. Retrieved on May 14, 2020 (contrary to its name, the Liechtenstein document book is not a document book, but a register book). 
2. ↑ Virtual Prussian Document Book: Regesta and texts on the history of Prussia and the Teutonic Order. In: uni-hamburg.de.
   Prussian document book. In: poznan.pl (political (general) department, Volume I: The formation of the Order State, 1st half: edited by Rudolf Philippi in conjunction with Carl P. Wölky, 2nd half: edited by August Seraphim, Königsberg i. Pr . 1882-1909).
3. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Württembergisches Urkundenbuch Online. In: wubonline.de.
   Royal State Archives in Stuttgart (Ed.): Württembergisches Urkundenbuch . 11 volumes, Scientia Verlag und Antiquariat Schilling OHG, Aalen 1972–1978 (1986), ISBN 3-511-05180-0 (reprint of the 1849–1913 edition).
4. ↑ Document book on the history of the Babenbergs in Austria. In: opac.regesta-imperii.de.
5. ^ Hubert Ermisch (editing): Document book of the city of Chemnitz and its monasteries. In: Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae Regiae. II 6, Leipzig 1879 ( online at codex.isgv.de ).