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Lawbook of the City of Herford Facsimile Edition

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The Lawbook of the City of Herford is a parchment manuscript of municipal law produced probably in Herford in 1368-1376. Written in Middle Low German, its sixty-one articles draw in part on the Sachsenspiegel and record the legal principles governing the city's community. Two imposing full-page miniatures, later bound at the front, visualize civic concord and the administration of justice. The manuscript's carefully executed initials, pen-flourishing, and painted imagery make it an exceptional witness to late medieval urban legal culture.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Lawbook of the City of Herford": Rechtsbuch der Stadt Herford facsimile edition, published by Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 1989

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Rechtsbuch der Stadt Herford

Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 1989

  • Commentary (German) by Helmert-Corvey, Theodor; Fedders, Wolfgang; Weber, Ulrich; Rütting, Heinrich; Schild, Wolfgang et al.
  • Limited Edition: 380 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Lawbook of the City of Herford: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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Bound in black blind-tooled leather.

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