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Copy of records of meetings and letters exchanged in connection with negotiations that took place from 3 July (Heuwmonat) to around mid or late August 1582, among Jacques-Christophe Blarer de Wartensee (Jakob Christoph Blarer von Wartensee), Bishop of Basel; the leadership of the district or bailiwick (Herrschaft, Vogtij, Ampt) of Pfeffingen (today located in the district of Arlesheim in the canton Basel-Landschaft, also called Baselland, Switzerland), which fell within Blarer's jurisdiction; and emissaries of the 7 Catholic cantons of the Swiss Confederation allied with Blarer: Luzern, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Freiburg, and Solothurn. Pfeffingen had earlier come under the influence of the Reformation and these negotiations marked the beginning of Blarer's introduction of the Counter-Reformation there. The copies of the 8 documents appear to form a unit, transcribed together.
Support: paper; Extent: 17 leaves : 304-306 x 193-200 (240 x 140) mm. bound to 310 x 205 mm; Collation: Paper, i (newer paper) + 15 (foliated 1, 3-16; f. 16 is blank) + i (newer paper); 1⁴(1 is pastedown; +3,4) 2¹² 3³(+1; 3 is pastedown). Contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, 3-16; supplementary modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, f. 1. Note in ink (19th-century or earlier?) indicates that a leaf is missing before f. 3 (hier fehlt ein halber bogen; f. 1v). Catchwords on both the recto and verso of f. 1, 3-6, 8, 9; and on the verso only of f. 7, 10-14.
Written in 33-34 long lines.
Written in a German cursive hand.
First line of first document enlarged and written in a more formal calligraphic hand. 5-line embellished initials of rubrics or opening lines (f. 5r, 6r, 7v, 14r); initials of rubrics and sections with pen flourishes throughout. Marginal drawings of pointing hands (f. 4r, 4v, 6v, 7v, 10r, 12v, 13r, 13v, 14v, 15r, 15v).
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Basel-Landschaft?, Switzerland
Written in the bailiwick (Vogtei) of Pfeffingen (?), Switzerland, in 1582.
Modern boards.
German
Previously held at Archiv Schöppl (red stamp, upper left recto, f. 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14; and lower mid recto, f. 16).
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1960.
Basel-Landschaft?, Switzerland
Written in the bailiwick (Vogtei) of Pfeffingen (?), Switzerland, in 1582.
German
Previously held at Archiv Schöppl
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal
Copy of records of meetings and letters exchanged in connection with negotiations that took place from 3 July (Heuwmonat) to around mid or late August 1582, among Jacques-Christophe Blarer de Wartensee (Jakob Christoph Blarer von Wartensee), Bishop of Basel; the leadership of the district or bailiwick (Herrschaft, Vogtij, Ampt) of Pfeffingen (today located in the district of Arlesheim in the canton Basel-Landschaft, also called Baselland, Switzerland), which fell within Blarer's jurisdiction; and emissaries of the 7 Catholic cantons of the Swiss Confederation allied with Blarer: Luzern, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Freiburg, and Solothurn. Pfeffingen had earlier come under the influence of the Reformation and these negotiations marked the beginning of Blarer's introduction of the Counter-Reformation there. The copies of the 8 documents appear to form a unit, transcribed together.
Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Written in a German cursive hand.
First line of first document enlarged and written in a more formal calligraphic hand. 5-line embellished initials of rubrics or opening lines (f. 5r, 6r, 7v, 14r); initials of rubrics and sections with pen flourishes throughout. Marginal drawings of pointing hands (f. 4r, 4v, 6v, 7v, 10r, 12v, 13r, 13v, 14v, 15r, 15v).
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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