Copenhagen wax tablets

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The Copenhagen wax tablets are part of a court record book for the judicial districts of the Danzig Commandery from 1368 to 1419.

Together with the Danzig 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 Danzig and Pomerania .

They consist of 29 wooden panels, each with two columns of wax, and show court hearings from the judicial districts of Lauenburg and Putzig, which are part of the Danzig Commandery . The wax tablets were in the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen , where they were transcribed by Gustav von Buchwald in 1879 . Buchwald describes the wax tablets as a " crumbly codex with worm-eaten wooden tablets, each containing two columns of black wax ". The wax tablets came into the possession of the Copenhagen library, apparently due to a mix-up between the Lauenburg / Lębork district in Pomerania and the Duchy of Lauenburg, which was in personal union with Denmark until 1864 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. GvBuchwald, The wax tablets of the Great Royal Library in Copenhagen , in: Journal of the West Prussian History Association, Book I, Danzig 1880, p. 3. The wax tablets are no longer listed in the current catalog of the Royal Library

literature

  • Gustav von Buchwald: The wax tablets of the great royal library in Copenhagen . In: Zeitschrift des Westpreußischen Geschichtsverein 1, 1880, ZDB -ID 201424-5 , pp. 1–33, (reproduction of the still decipherable text of the wax tablets).
  • A. Bertling: Explanations and results of the Copenhagen wax tablets . In: Journal of the West Prussian History Association 1, 1880, ZDB -ID 201424-5 , pp. 34–82.