Austrian Manuscript (3 results)

Small 8vo, (170x107mm), pp: [i], 1-258, engraved frontispiece of Christ on the Cross, title page with a red & brown border, chapter headings in red, page 1 verso of title page to page 258 complete, plate between pp 33 & 34, pp 93 & 94, and pp 111 & 112, text in a ruled border, lacks rear free endpaper, German text in ink in very good condition in a blind stamped full calf lbinding with initials 'MAW' to head of front cover, 'IHS' ovas stamp to front cover & a similar stamp to rear cover, bumped & worn with loss of leather to front board & fore edge, however sound, tight & with the contents in very good condition.

Sm. 8vo., (151x97mm), 127,[1], numbered pages incl. title page being dpage 1, engraved frontispiece printed in Linz, (Austria), written in brown ink & red for chapter headings, within a ruled border, owner inscribed & dated 1870 to front free endpaper and an earlier inscription to pastedown endpaper opposite. Illustrated with marginal flowers in red, green & brown on six pages, rear endpapers with notes, text occ. marked, otherwise very good in a contemporary binding of full contemporary calf withd a faded gilt wreath to each cover, little wormed to tail of spine & a burn to head of rear cover. Early nineteenth century.

Folio (210 x 310 mm). German manuscript on paper. 698 written pages on 396 unnumbered ff. Contemporary calf; spine gilt. Collection of almost entirely German (Austrian) 16th century legal texts, but also comprising a few 15th century sources (and one in Latin), thus assembled in the late 17th century. The tax legislation for all five Lower Austrian countries and Gorizia from 1542 (copied from the printed book) is followed by the extensive Treatises of Bernhard Walther (the "father of Austrian law" who in the mid-16th century collected the Lower Austrian customary law). The present, very complete manuscript comprises 14 of the 15 treatises (all except that on bankruptcy), and it was used by Max Rintelen for his critical edition, published in 1937 (cf. reference below). The treatises are followed by decisions concerning the law of inheritance ("Von Erbschafften drey Fragen, dem Herrn Landtmarschalkh . alhier anzuzaigen"; "Ob deß abgestorbnen Wittib, oder Glaubiger den Vorgang haben: Der Regierung Rathschlag" etc.), "Bericht wegen der Caution im Landtsrechten in Österreich Under der Enß", "General wegen der Verstorbenen Pfarrer in Steyer Verlassenschafft", "Tractatus de testibus, ex secundo tomo actionum forensium D. Joan. Oldendorffii"; "Königlicher Bevelch daß ain jede Sach vor dem ordentlichen Gericht erster Instanz clagt soll werden (4 March 1534); "Khay. May. Declaration und Spruch zwischen der Löblichen Universitet zu Wienn, und gemainer Statt daßelbst" (1571), "Gemaine Beschwerung der Erblande" (with detailed regulations on mining and minting, manslaughter, gypsies, Jews, etc.), confirmations of decrees issued by Frederick III in 1444, 1462 and 1470, etc. - Some waterstaining near end; occasional slight staining. Spine-ends professionally repaired. - Handwritten ownership of Baron Anton von Egger (d. 1727): "Ex lib. Ant. L. B. de Egker". Later in the collection of the Austrian legal historian and numismatist Arnold Luschin von Ebengreuth (1841-1932) with his etched bookplate to the front pastedown. After Luschin's death his heirs presented the volume to his student, the legal historian Max Rintelen (1880-1965); cf. his entry in blue ink: "Von Luschins Erben erhalten. Max Rintelen". - M. Rintelen, Bernhard Walthers privatrechtliche Traktate (Leipzig 1937), Ms. LE (p. XVIII).