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MARIE-LUISE HECKMANN
University of Potsdam, Historical Institute
Research areas: papal, climate, and intellectual history; manuscript studies; diplomatics; historical auxiliary sciences.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35321/all81-02
PRUSSICA AND LITHUANICA IN THE BERLIN STATE LIBRARY – PRUSSIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE
Prussica and Lithuanica in the Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage
Abstract
The article “Lithuanica and Prussica in the Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage” consists of a brief introduction to the circumstances of transmission and several research aspects, as well as short descriptions of nearly thirty manuscripts in German, Latin, Prussian, or Lithuanian, which came to the Royal Prussian Library in Berlin mainly in the nineteenth century.
KEYWORDS: Borussica, Lituanica, and Prussica; Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage; linguistic monuments; Jagiellonian Library, Kraków; Christianization of the Baltic region; regional and municipal chronicles of Prussia; Reformation; Martin Luther’s Small Catechism and translations; Waidelotte; Prussian Lithuanian; Lithuania Minor and Greater Lithuania; Romanticism and linguistics.
ABSTRACT
The article “Lithuanica and Prussica deposited in the Berlin State Library of Prussian Heritage” consists of a short introduction to the tradition circumstances and some aspects of research as well as of tightly descriptions of almost thirty German, Latin, Prussian or
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Lithuanian manuscripts, which have been transferred to the Royal Prussian Library in Berlin mainly during the 19th century.
KEYWORDS: Borussica, Lituanica and Prussica; Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage; language monuments; Jagiellonian Library Cracow; Christianization of the Baltic; Territory and City chronicles of Prussia; Reformation; Martin Luther’s Small Catechism and its translations; Waidelotte; Prussian Lithuanian; Small and Large Lithuania; Romance and linguistics.
Prussica and Lituanica generally entered the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SBB PK) or one of its predecessor institutions through sales, donations, endowments, or estates. What follows is a concise presentation of a selection of manuscripts written in Lithuanian or concerning Lithuania. Also mentioned are Prussica that report, for example, on the Sudovians and other small Prussian tribes, whenever they also have connections to Lithuania or constitute genuine “linguistic monuments.” Grasilda Blažienė has devoted intensive study to the Prussian language and its idioms. This contribution is therefore dedicated to her.¹
No attempt is made to achieve completeness, as that would exceed the scope of an article. There are also further reasons for making a selection. For instance, according to their watermarks, some eighteenth-century manuscripts were written on Lithuanian paper, but this alone does not establish their provenance unequivocally.² Manuscripts that have already been catalogued in greater depth and are therefore accessible to research are also not discussed. The deposit of Wilhelm Gaigalat (1870–1945), who had served as a professor of Protestant theology at the University of Kaunas, for example, was returned to Wilno (Vilnius) in 1997. It had already been catalogued in the 1980s, so only a few questions require physical consultation of the items.³
Nevertheless, cataloguing is made more difficult by the fact that a considerable part of the SBB PK’s Slavic manuscripts, including
¹ E.g. Blažienė 2000; 2001; 2005.
² E.g. Ms. boruss. fol. 263: WZ: Madonna with halo of rays, || 60 mm, height: 125 mm, width 60 mm, type Laucevičius 1967, no. 2463); Ms. boruss. fol. 1253 and Ms. germ. qu. 2347: WZ: Mary with Child, below: S MARIA, countermark: Z VKAV / ML, type Laucevičius, Popierius Lietuvoje XV–XVIIIa. Atlasas, no. 2462/2465.
³ Range 1980. Weitere Lituanica könnten sich im Nachlass von Eduard Hermann (1863–1950) befinden.
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including those from or concerning Lithuania, was transferred to the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków as a result of the Second World War. They are included below only when relevant finding aids or digitized copies are available. As already noted, further items are found among the so-called Borussica, that is, manuscripts concerning or originating from places or regions of the Prussian state as a whole, without having been assigned to the Staatsbibliothek’s major series. For the most part, these are administrative books, historiography, or “carriers of tradition” linked by provenance. Lithuanian-related material is found chiefly in the Borussica collection today as a result of the historical proximity of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to the lands of the Teutonic Order and the Duchy of Prussia (from 1525).
What can the manuscripts preserved in Berlin tell us about Old Prussia and Lithuania? First, there is a series of manuscripts that report on the small Baltic tribes northeast of the Vistula and southwest of the Memel.⁴ The external and internal Christianization of these peoples was the decisive factor in the formation of this transmission. It is therefore unsurprising that not only the Dominican preacher Simon Grunau (around 1470–1530/1537), vilified in the nineteenth century as a “lying monk,”⁵ but also Prussian regional and urban historiography, which took shape from the sixteenth century onward, incorporated the Prussians almost seamlessly into its image of the past.⁶ Looking back at the pagan past, several Baltic deities even came to be regarded, as it were, as “principal ancestors” of the Duchy of Prussia.⁷
Looking at the Baltic “language family,” it became a subject of interest (alongside the Slavic, Germanic, and Romance language groups) precisely when, with the Reformation, the vernacular rose to become the principal medium of preaching and proclamation. For example, Martin Luther’s Small Catechism soon appeared after its first publication in 1529 in the languages of neighboring countries as well: first in Polish, Prussian, Lithuanian, and Danish, alongside Croatian, then also in French and Italian, and finally, toward the end of the seventeenth century, in Czech and Sorbian.⁸
⁴ Mss. boruss. fol. 68 and 303.
⁵ Ms. boruss. fol. 264 (supplement). Cf. Zonenberg 2007; Miltakis 2015. On the manuscripts of Simon Grunau’s Chronicle, see Zonenberg 2020.
⁸ Latin: VD 16 / VD 17: 39/9 (1529–1685); Low German: VD 16: 26 (1529–1599); Polish: L 5341, L 5343; 12:740759Z (1533, 1562, 1615, Königsberg); German / Prussian: L 5200, L 5202
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Among the Berlin Borussica, long overlooked and thus inaccessible to research, was a copy by the linguist Johann Severin Vater (1771–1826), with additions by the Halle-based Balticist Faber, of the first Prussian edition of Martin Luther’s Enchiridion.⁹ The linguistic quality of the translation by Abel Will, pastor in Pobethen (1540–1575), was still disputed among linguists at the beginning of the 20th century.¹⁰ The translation originally resulted from a commission by Duke Albrecht of Prussia (1525–1567). It was produced around 1545, shortly after the sacrifice of a black billy goat during the Knight’s War, which had taken place in 1520 in Pobethen, with the consent of Grand Master Albrecht (1511–1525), to ward off enemy ships from Danzig. Soon after the Reformation, however, attitudes toward the scarcely Christianized Prussians shifted, and the Bishop of Samland, Georg von Polentz (1519–1550), sentenced the pagan ‘Waidelotte’ Valentin Sopplit (Supplit) and 23 of his followers to comprehensive public penance before readmitting them to communion a year later.
The term Waidelotte is based on the reconstructed Prussian verb waidilis. According to research, it encompasses a whole range of meanings, from seeing and knowing to casting spells.¹² Against this background, a linguistic and historical study of the first Prussian catechism would be highly desirable,¹³ all the more so since not only the Bible and Psalter translation by Johannes Bretke (1536–1602), pastor in Labiau and Königsberg, but also the second translation of the Enchiridion, produced around 1575 by Bartholomäus Willent (1525–1587),¹⁴
(1545, 1561: Königsberg); Lithuanian Mažvydas 1547, 1:719679M (1547; 1612, both Königsberg); German / Latin: VD 16 / VD 17: 3 / 5 (1554–1669); German / Croatian: B 7650 (1561); German / Polish: L 5344, L 5345 (1574, 1588); Danish: L 5255, ZV 24213, L 5256 (1587, 1594, 1596); French 75:650634U, 23:292716Q, 23:664372K (1605, 1637, 1667); Greek / Latin / German: L 5191 (1565); German / Latin / Hebrew: 23:286143T (1602); German / Latin / Greek / Hebrew: 7 (1605–1660); German / Latin / French / Greek: 32:645194Z (1609); Latin / Greek: 384:717945U (1614); German / Latin / French / Italian: 39:146155Z (1615); Greek: 23:685649V = 75:656151H (1618); German / Latin / Greek: 1:040122D (1630); Czech: 32:682640P (1685); Sorbian: 547:653025A (1693).
⁹ Ms. boruss. fol. 462.
¹⁰ Hermann 1915.
¹¹ David 1812: 117–126. Vgl. Wijaczka 2014: 78. Die bei David beschriebenen Bußund Gegenrituale verdienten eine weitergehende religionswissenschaftliche Aufarbeitung.
The “Prussian Lithuanian,” with its valuable information on the culture and way of life of the so-called Lithuanian Minor, is now also available in a critical edition.
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The “fragments of transmission” relating to Lithuania Major in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin date from between the 16th and 20th centuries. Lithuania is mentioned primarily in connection with treaties, the granting of privileges, or administrative matters. It also occasionally appears in accounts of assemblies of the estates, guest lists of the Lithuanian court, bills, property deeds, travel reports, or historical treatises, such as the Historia Poloniae et Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae. Cum annexis Provinciis ab harum origine by the Jesuit priest Thomas Szpot. For the linguist, the search for the origins of the Lithuanian language during the Romantic period is particularly noteworthy, especially since it aligns well with recent research on Jacob Grimm’s (1785–1863) knowledge of Lithuanian.
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Bretke 1991 (1); Bretke 1991 (2); Bretke (2017). Cf. Kluge / Scholz 2002; Eglė 2007; Gelumbec-kaitė 2017; Range 2017; Thies 2017. On the first books in Prussian and Lithuanian: Lukšaitė 2017, 229–240. and http://www.hab.de/ausstellungen/postille/einleitung.htm (accessed on 6 November 2019).
Gerulaitienė 2011.
Further Lithuanica are held in the Russian National Library in Petersburg; cf. Bleski-na 2011; Logutova 2015.
Vgl. Kraut 2017. Kirchenslavischen Drucken aus Polen, die Übersetzungsund Vermittlungsbedarf sowie konfessionelle Konflikte des 17. Jahrhunderts anzeigen, ist ein längerfristiges Digitalisierungsvorhaben an der SBB PK gewidmet. Vgl. Neumann 2016 sowie „Digitalisierte Sammlungen“ der SBB PK.
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Brief descriptions
1) Ms. boruss. fol. 68: Peter von Dusburg: Chronica Prussiae Summarium Bellorum Pruthenicorum per annos 14 (Latin), III + 140 fols., Prussia?, 16th century. Red-speckled edges. Paper, 28.5 x 20.5, watermark: front flyleaf, fols. 274, 276 vase with two handles, three flowers, and the monogram MB; fols. 264, 270 handled jug with foot and superimposed crown (Briquet 12632?). Pagination on recto sides, fols. 16, 17, 36 traces of an earlier foliation, 31–37 lines, Kurrent script, three hands (fols. 1r–96r; 96v–97v, 105v–107v; 97v–98v, 100r–105r, 107v–132v), marginal notes, deletions toward the end, fols. 1–191 headings and initials in red, occasional red underlining. Previous ownership: handwritten title on the spine Chronica Prussiae; front pastedown, old shelfmark N. 55 (similar in Ms. boruss. fol. 72); on the front cover, gold-colored oval bookplate in the form of a coat of arms with the inscription Daniel Casimirus Krusius Theol. et I.U.D. Custos Vratisla[viensis], coat of arms: divided twice per pale, fields 1 and 3 each with two six-pointed stars, field 2 with one six-pointed star, above it a lion rampant reversed, bareheaded, holding three lilies in its paws; front pastedown (recto), ownership inscription Danielis Casimiri Krusii CW. Fols. 1r–96v Peter von Dusburg. Chronica Prussiae. Incomplete. Begins Honorabili viro et in Christo devoto fratri Wernero de Orsele magistro hospitalis sancte Marie domus Theutonicorum Ierosolimitani frater Petrus de Dusburgk... Breaks off at ordinavit ergo, quod David Castelhuus suus de Gartha cum valido exercitu intravit terram Masoviae XI Kal., fols. 1r–3r prologue, fols. 3v–4r De modo agendi libri huius. Prefatio ad institutionem ordinis domus Theutonicae, fols. 4r–96r Incipit prima pars libri de origine ordines domus theuton[icorum]..., fols. 96v–133r Summarium bellorum Pruthenicorum per annos 14. Begins Anno domini 1444 die sancte Dorothee virginis. Nobilo et ministro Prussie... Ends... per gratiam dei res habeant clara documenta. Finis, fol. 103rv German insertion. Begins Der gemeyne eyd laud alzo. Alle sachen wir daz geschen sint mit unserem eldesten... Ends... zu halden ein eides stat das (muß) goth so helffe etc., fols. 149r–150r, 132v–140v blank.
Lit.: Toeppen 1853, 17 f.; SRP 1: 3–219, hier 14 f.; Kletke 1858: 79; Peter von Dusburg 1984, 19 f.; Mentzel-Reuters 2001 (1); Heckmann 2004: 1–18; Piotr z Dusburga 2007: XLV; Smith 2017: 151–154. Vgl. Ms. boruss. fol. 245; PStA Danzig: 300, R/Li, q. 1; 492/971; UB Toruń: Rps 26/III (Altsignatur mf. 782); PStA Toruń: Kat. II, XIII, 1; ÖNB Wien: Cod. Vind. 9093.
2) Ms. boruss. fol. 303: Nicolaus von Jeroschin: Prussian Rhymed Chronicle, 252 fols., Germany, 17th century.
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Library binding. Paper (various types), 28 x 22. Earlier pagination 1–491, fol. 272 omitted, 2 columns, written area approx. 23 x 9 each, generally 30 lines, Kurrent script, several hands, page references to the exemplar noted in the margins, headings underlined in red, from fol. 58 in printed script, beginning of a verse written larger from fol. 55, partly underlined in red. Previous ownership: note on the front pastedown stating that the manuscript came to Berlin from Königsberg, and two bibliographical references (Lilienthal and Hanow).
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3) Ms. boruss. fol. 245: Stenzel Bornbach: Cronica des Preußenlands, vol. 1: From the Beginnings to 1290 (contains Ps.-Wartzmann: Chronicle of the Land of Prutenia) List of princes, 166 fols., Germany, 16th century.
Autograph. Paper, 30 x 21. Loss of leaves between fols. 50 and 60, margins trimmed during binding (with partial text loss); quires of 8 bifolia, watermark: ox head (resembles Piccard, vol. V, nos. 212 and 214), earlier pagination 2–20, earlier foliation on the verso 21–164, written area generally 26 x 17, chancery and Kurrent scripts, fols. 30r, 33rv, 35r, 54r coats of arms of the grand masters of the Teutonic Order, colors indicated, fols. 94v, 114r, 139r, 152v outlines of coats of arms, blank, fol. 9r pen drawing, coat of arms with three heads, crowned by helmet and oak tree, figure of Widowito on the left, Bruteno on the right, fols. 2r–18v blank, attached along the outer edge with Gothic capitals A–Z, Z largely destroyed when the text block was trimmed. Fol. 166v contains a list of princes from Lithuania, Samogitia, and Masuria with whom the Prussians and the Teutonic Order waged wars.
4) Ms. boruss. fol. 251: Andreas Huckewitz: Prussian Chronicle (up to 1527), II + 393 fols., Danzig, 16th century.
Paper, 30 x 20. Watermark: handled jug with foot and superimposed quatrefoil flower (resembles Briquet 12573), quires of five with quire signatures on the last page of each quire, earlier foliation 1–393, written area approx. 25 x 15, page ruled in pencil, Kurrent script, chancery script (title page, headings). Provenance: fol. 1v monogram GR, fol. IIr note identifying the commissioner Johann Kopfen. Fol. Ir motto. Navita dementis, de tauris narrat arator. / Vulnerat miles, enumerat pastor oves, fol. Iv blank, fol. IIr preface, fol. IIv blank, 1r–393r text, fols. 1r–4v history of the kings of Jerusalem, fols. 5r–12r foundation of the Teutonic Order, fol. 12v blank, fols. 13r–341v history of the grand masters and the land of Prussia (up to 1525). Each new grand master begins on a recto page, resulting in several blank folios; fols. 342r–373v Reformation and social unrest in Danzig and the surrounding area (1522–1527), fols. 371v–381v insertion. The War of the League of Cambrai (1520/1521), fols. 382r–393r Der Ungläubigen Sudawen ihrer Bockheyligung mit sampt andern Ceremonien, so sie zu gebrauchen pflegen, fol. 393v blank.
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Kletke 1858: 91–93; Döhn 6, fol. 70 f. Lit.: Förster 1820: 15 f. On the Sū-dauers, cf. Ms. boruss. fol. 592.
5) Ms. boruss. fol. 265: Danzig City Book, 60 + 1 fols., Danzig, 15th c. (1386, 1414–1455).
Gray cardboard binding, spine: title label (difficult to read), red-and-gold shelfmark label (current shelfmark), 30 x 22.5. Paper, 29.5 x 22. Several fols. restored, an inserted leaf pasted in before fol. 3, one fol. cut out before each of fols. 6 and 33; (VI–1)25 + (IV–1)32 + XIV60, WZ: ǁǁǁ 64 mm, height 56 mm, width 26 mm, tower with battlements and one window (Piccard 100743), front and rear endpapers: WZ: inscription, often 32–33 lines, Gothic cursive, several hands, Latin, Middle High German, Middle Low German, fol. 16v fish with three fins, fols. 22v and 51v nota hands. Previous ownership: fols. 2r and 59r red stamps of the Royal Library, fol. 2r current shelfmark. Four fascicles: I: fols. 1r–12v council ordinance and other council matters; II: fols. 13r–38v correspondence with trading partners and rulers; III: fols. 39r–46v charters and letters of the territorial ruler; IV: fols. 47r–60v council, town lord, and town hall. Contains fols. 30v–31v Grand Duke Boleslaw Swidrigal of Lithuania to the Roman King Frederick (III). In dem namen der hilgen Drifaldigkeit. Armen … [Kerschemen, 1431 VI 19].
Description according to Döhn, Gesamtbestand, under the shelfmark. Lit.: Tandecki 1990; Eibl 2004: 57 f., no. 15; Grulkowski 2015: 469–472 (all without this manuscript). Cf. Ms. boruss. fol. 72.
6) Ms. boruss. fol. 272: Numophylacium Hornianum Polono-Prussicum J. H. Liedert: Polish and Lithuanian Coin Cabinet J. H. Liedert: Polish and Lithuanian Coin Cabinet, 51 fols., Prussia?, 18th c.
Cardboard binding, 34 x 22. Paper, 33 x 21.5. Several watermarks, Madonna in a radiating aureole (similar to Suprașlius, 1778, according to no. 2365 in Lietuvoje XV–XVII, E. Laucevičius); irregular gatherings, paginated, 2 pastedowns each at front and back, approx. 40 lines, Kurrent script, one hand, German. Note on fol. 3r. Ex Collectione Manuscriptorum Fried. Carl. Gottl. de Duisburg. Fol. 4r–5r List of the Prussian and Polish coins that were current before and after the time of the Teutonic Order, fol. 5v–8v Coins minted in the time of the Teutonic Order, fol. 9r–10r Old royal coins of Vladislau Jagello etc., fol. 10v–11v Bohemian groschen that were current in Poland even in the time of the Teutonic Order, fol. 12rv Various groschen, schillings, pennies. 2 groschen sl. [scilicet] Dreyzeleher, from Poland, fol. 13r On Thorn coins, fol. 13v
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Elbing coins, fols. 14r–15v Danzig coins, fol. 16r Continuation of the Thorn coins. Vide fol. 19, fol. 16v blank, fols. 17r–19r Continuation of the Polish coins, fol. 19v Polish thaler [Thaler?], fols. 20r–21r Continuation of the Polish RP. [Res Publica / Rzeszpospolita?], fols. 21v–22r On gold coins, fols. 22r–24r On Polish gold coins, fols. 24v–31r On Polish silver medals, fol. 31v blank. Fols. 32r–36r List of Prussian [i.e. Brandenburg] coins as well as thalers [i.e. medals], fol. 36v blank, fols. 37r–43v On Prussian Brandenburg medals in tin, fols. 44r–49v J.H. Liedert. Polish and Lithuanian Coin Cabinet, fol. 45v, fols. 50r–51v blank.
Description by Sara Knothe (University of Potsdam). Lit.: Gartmann 1901; Sajauskas / Kaubrys 1993, 2006.
Fig. 2 Johann Seoverin Vater: Enchiridion. The Small Catechism of Doctor Martin Luther, German and Prussian, fols. 26v–27r (copy, German on the left, Prussian on the right)
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7) Ms. boruss. fol. 462: Johann Severin Vater: Enchiridion. The small catechism of Doctor Martin Luther, German and Prussian. Printed in Königsberg in Prussia by Johann Daubmann. M.D.LXI (copy) Faber: collation of the copy against the printed edition, 64 fols., Halle, c. 1821.
Fig. 3 Rulers’ family tree of the sovereign Duchy of Prussia, 1693–1694 (detail)
Brown-mottled cardboard binding, on the spine a green label inscribed Ms. Boruss. fol. 462. Prussian catechism. Copy of the printed edition v.
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1561. Below, red label with current shelfmark, 30 x 20. Paper, BR 32.5 x 19.5. Two fascicles: I: fols. 1r–62v, foliation with an ornamental border, in ink, number of lines varies, Kurrent script, one hand, catchwords. II: fols. 63r–64v, larger format: 36.5 x 22, folded, written on both sides. Another hand. Provenance: fol. 1r note S. Josef Sauer in Vater’s Die Sprache der alten Preußen. Braunschweig 1821. Preface, pp. X–XI, fol. 62r remark by Herr Doctor Vater in Halle. So far not the original, which …–1…and could replace it with a print of the original; fol. 2v stamp of the Royal Library (Latin inscription). Fol. 1r see above, fol. 2r title, fol. 2v blank, fols. 3r–61r copy, fols. 63r–64v divergences of the copy from its exemplar: Enchiridion 1561.
Lit.: Vater 1821: X–XI.
8) Ms. boruss. fol. 474: Samuel von S.: Rulers’ family tree of the sovereign Duchy of Prussia, 1693–1694, scroll, mounted on canvas, in a portfolio.
Modern brown wooden binding, 49.5 x 35. Parchment pasted onto canvas, bound on the right during restoration, 67.5 x 48. Latin cursive, one hand (Samuel de Su … 1694), pen drawing: tree diagram, colored green, red, and yellow. Title: Family tree of the rulers of the sovereign Duchy of Prussia and its former and present servants. The diagram shows the Duchy of Prussia from its origins in Franconia (House of Ansbach, Hohenzollern), Old Prussia (Vaidevutus, 373 AD, to Krÿwe Krÿweiten, 583 years later), and the Holy Land (Teutonic Order) up to its last officeholder: the name of the ruler in office in 1693/1694, Friderich Wilhelm I., Elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713), Duke (1688–1701), and King of Prussia (1701–1713), has, however, been erased. His half-sister Luise Dorothée (1680–1705), his mother Sophie Charlotte of Hanover (1668–1705), and his elder brother Friederich Augustus (1685–1686), marked as deceased, are noted, however. The erasure therefore took place between 1701 (the coronation of Friedrich Wilhelm I as king) and 1705 (the deaths of his half-sister and mother). The occasion for creating the rulers’ family tree was presumably Friedrich Wilhelm I’s impending (self-)coronation as King of Prussia. The broader context of its creation may perhaps lie in the tree motif, which appears in contemporary funeral sermons. Cf. VD 17: 1:0334477F; 29:725438C. VD18: 90537262.
9) Ms. boruss. fol. 592: Johannes Freiberg: Prussian Chronicle (excerpt 1190–1440). Documentary records and historical narratives, Kulm charter, 139 fols., Germany, 16th c.
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Binding error at the end, paper in 2°, binions, 3 WZ (not in Briquet), 31 x 22, SR approx. 26 x 17, old pagination in the scribe’s hand, 28 or more lines, Kurrent script (list of Grand Masters, 18th c.), chancery script (text and headings). Scribe Johannes Freiberg. Previous owners: Hans Mülfelt from Königsberg? (neither detail can be read from external features); [acc. ms. 158] (1830: Vend. Halling. Studioso in mense Februario). Addition on fol. 1v. List of Grand Masters up to Albrecht as a detailed table of contents, fols. 1r–99r Ps.-Wart(z)mann (1190–1525), fols. 99rv Mandate of Bishop Johann Poliander of Ermeland (concerning the Lutheran religion, 1540), fols. 100r–124r Further mandates, 124r–126v Artickell uff die Stette, gemachtt vom Orden (1529), fols. 126v–131v Von den Sudawytternn und ihren Gebräuchen, fols. 131v–132v list of the Landmasters in Prussia, 132v–139v Kulm law. Old Kulm and charter (breaks off).
Described after Döhm 7, fols. 59–61. Lit.: Kletke 1858, 125 f.; Toeppen 1868, 249 (without this manuscript). Cf. Mss. boruss. fol. 176, fols. 242r–329v and fol. 629, fols. 22r–144v, as well as StdtB Königsberg, S 24 fol., fols. 319r–327r; on the Sudauers, Ms. boruss. fol. 251. Cf. also Rappolt 1738; M iletius 1742: 701/707–721; Poliander 1808; SRP 1968: 331–335, no. 10. Cf. Ms. boruss. fol. 629.
10) Ms. boruss. fol. 1157: Village regulations for the domain offices in the East Prussian and Lithuanian chamber department, 16 fols., Berlin, 19th c.
Lit.: Flade 2014.
Fig. 4 Theodor Lepner: The Prussian Lithuanian, fols. 1v–2r
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11) Ms. boruss. oct. 5: Theodor Lepner: The Prussian Lithuanian, X + 202 fols., Prussia, late 17th c. With book decoration (colored drawing).
Binding of the Royal Library. Paper, 16.5 x 10, Kurrent script, chancery script (“neogothic cursive”), 13–14 lines. Previous ownership: according to Ms. Cat. A, acquired before 1818.
Described after Döhm 13: fols. 6–8. Printed edition: Lepner 1744. Edition: Gerulaitienė 2011. Cf. also SRP 6: 50–60 (The Lithuanian by Schondoch).
12) Ms. boruss. oct. 20: Information on the offices and towns of the Kingdom of Prussia · General information on the Royal Prussian-Lithuanian offices · Information on the towns of the Lithuanian Department of Prussia, 104 fols. (+ 1 insert), n.p., n.d. [1807–1813/1815, since the designation “department” points to the Duchy of Warsaw].
Cardboard binding, black marbled. At the top of the spine an old label Information on the Offices in Prussia, at the bottom the Royal Library’s shelfmark label. Red stamp of the Royal Library on fol. 11 (Latin inscription), current shelfmark. 17 x 10.5, gatherings: 8 IV64 + (IV−1)72 + III78 + IV102 + (III−3)105, thirteen fascicles with varying leaf formats: eight times 17 x 10 (1 fol.), 17 x 8 (6 fols.), 17 x 10, then 17 x 10 (2 fols.), 17 x 8 (5 fols.), twice 17 x 10 (1 fol.), 17 x 8 (4 fols.), once 17 x 10 (1 fol.), 17 x 8 (5 fols.), once 17 x 10 (1 fol.), 17 x 8 (4 fols.), once 17 x 10 (1 fol.), 17 x 8 (2 fols.), 17 x 10 (3 fols.), varying number of columns and lines. Statistical surveys organized by the names of the offices (1st column, always filled in; fols. 1–77: 57 unnumbered place names, fols. 78–99: 49 numbered place names Waldau...–... Riesenburg, fols. 100–103: 10 numbered place names Altkoff Insterburg...–... Rush), further columns, e.g. for the number of persons or the number of existing gardens (additional columns, often empty).
Cf. Ms. boruss. fol. 1110.
13) Ms. gall. fol. 196: Journal of the General Diet of the Estates of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: 3 October – 14 November 1746, 88 fols., Warsaw, 1746.
Autograph. Mottled cardboard binding (of the Royal Library, 18th c.), 34.7 x 20, spine: inscription: Journal de la Diete des Etats [...] [P]ologn[e] 1746, VD library annotations, German. Paper, 34.7 x 19.6. Several fols.
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lost (text loss), paper brittle; leaf ruling, 30–50 lines, three hands, first hand with German β. Provenance: fol. 1r acc. [ms.] 10, 940, fol. 88v purchase note. Acquired from the antiquarian T.O. Weigel, Leipzig; red stamps of the Royal Library, Berlin (Latin inscription). Fol. 1r–88v Journal de la Diete Generale des Etats du Royaume de Pologne et du Grand Duché de Lithuanie, commencée à Varsovie le 3 d’octobre l’an 1746. Lundi le 3 d’octobre 1746. 1 Session. Begins L’ouverture de la Diete Generale des Etats de Pologne et de Lithuanie se fit aujourd’hui selon les formalités usitées …
The description is based on http://info.filg.uj.edu.pl/fibula/sites/default/files/pdfs/Gall-Fol-196.pdf (consulted 24.10.2019).
14) Ms. germ. fol. 857: On the History of the Duchy of Prussia (contains Ps.-Wartzmann: Chronicle of the Land of Prutenia), I + 437 + I fols., Kulm, 17th c.
Autograph. Grey cardboard binding, 30 × 18.5; at the top of the spine a printed title label, at the bottom a red shelfmark label with gold embossing (current shelfmark). Paper, SR 21–22 × 14–15; fols. 4r–13v wrongly ordered during binding at the Royal Library; 16–21 lines, cursive script, cursive hand (fols. 305rv, 321r–322v), one hand (except fol. 419v), catchwords, red marginalia, scribe’s note on fol. 1r. Sum Georgij Lobuuaseri Schneebergensis. Previous ownership: ownership note on fol. 1r. Ex Bibliotheca Hempclij … Anno 1668; another hand. …origissimam Theodori Mitzeln abg. Dato Friol. Lauhen et 31 … 1759; accession 9438 (i.e. sale by Assessor Brakenhausen to the Royal Library for 6 thalers on 11 October 1867), Royal Library shelfmark, fol. 1r, 437v red stamps of the Royal Library (Latin inscription).
Fol. 1r title, fol. 1v blank, fols. 2rv register of 16 quires, fols. 3rv blank, fols. 4r–13v alphabetical register to Kulm law, fols. 14r–15v blank, I: fols. 16r–26r charters of the cities of Kulm and Thorn (1251), fol. 26v blank, II: fols. 27r–32v Kulm charter (excerpt), fols. 33r–36v blank, III: fols. 37r–207v The Five Books of Kulm Law (Old Kulm), fols. 208r–210r Magdeburg law (excerpt on inheritance law). Erklärung des Magdeburgischen rechten von wegen eines Puncts … Fol. 210v blank, IV: fols. 211r–222v Perpetual treaty between Poland and Prussia (Krakow, 1525 IV 8), Bl. 223r Der Abgesandten vom Orden, auch Lande unnd Stedte Bewilligung und Consens dieses vorhergehenden ewigen Friedes … found on fol. 103 (Krakow, 1525 IV 9), fol. 223v blank, V: fols. 224r–233r Perpetual treaty between Lithuania and Prussia. Nach dem aus der Regirendenne Heuster [Hochmeister] unnd unser … Fol. 233v blank, VI: fol. 234r–276r Duke
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Albrecht of Prussia. Testament. Testament of His Princely Grace in Prussia (1567 II 17), which, at the Landtag held at Heiligenbeil in 1568, was opened on 14 June and delivered to an honourable country estate..., fols. 276v–277v blank, VII: fols. 278r–281r Duke Albrecht of Prussia. Privilege. Ordinance of Margrave Albrecht concerning the land and town, to uphold each person in his rights and freedoms (Krakow, 1525 IV 11), fols. 281v–282v blank, VIII: fols. 283r–300r Magdeburg law concerning the two children (Königsberg, 1540 X 31), fol. 300v blank, IX: fol. 301r List of castles and towns in Prussia, X: fol. 301v Names of the beers in Prussia (1443), XI: fol. 303r How powerful the Order was in the land of Prussia, fol. 303v The land’s revenues. 18,368 villages in the land..., fols. 304rv blank, XII: fols. 305r–311v Recess of the Three Cities of Königsberg... found on folio 48 (1566 X 25), XIII: fols. 312r–319v Matthias Reutel. Confession (1575), fols. 320rv blank XIV, fols. 321r–322v Latin. King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland. Privilege for Duke Albrecht Friedrich of Prussia (Lublin, 1569 VII 19), fols. 323rv blank, XV: fols. 324r–419r Ps.-Wartzmann. Chronicle of the Land of Prutenia. Excerpt of some events from the Chronicle of the Teutonic Order in Prussia. In the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1190, the great city of Arkurs was... (1190–1525), fols. 417r–419r epilogue (concerning 1466, 1511, 1517–1546), fol. 419v another hand (partly rubbed off). Excerpt of some history from the chronicle of the government in Prussia following the abolition of the Teutonic Order, XVI: fols. 420r–437v The Willkür of the Three Cities of Königsberg (1394).
15) Ms. germ. fol. 1493: Cosmus von Simmer: Old and New World, Historia, vol. 14, 493 fols., 1620, additions through 1632. With a humorous poem by Jodocus Hond (1563–1612).
16) Ms. germ. qu. 1045: Xaver Bohuss: On the origin of the Lithuanian nation and its language, 73 leaves, 19th century (1827).
Vorbesitz: Aus dem Nachlass des Geographen Carl Ritter (1759–1859). In einer öffentlichen Sitzung der Königlichen Warschauer Gelehrten Gesellschaft vorgelesen am 12. Dezember 1806. Übersetzt von Hrn. von Zalesky 1827 [eher Wacław Michał Zaleski (1799–1849) als Józef Bohlan Zaleski (1802–1886)].
Degering 1926: 174; http://kalliope.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/de/ead?id=DE-611-BF-26361 (Einsichtnahme 3. November 2019).
17) Ms. lat. qu. 828: Thomas Szpot SJ: Historia Poloniae et Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae. Cum annexis Provinciis ab harum origine usque ad obitum Ioannis III. Regis Poloniae (up to 1696), II + 286 leaves, Rome, early 18th century.
Red leather over wooden boards, 25 x 17.5. Paper, SR 20 x 12.5. 31 lines, Latin cursive (formal script), catchwords. Provenance: fol. 1r shelfmark of the Royal Library, acc. ms. 1920, 3 (sale by Friedrich von Schwanghoff, Helgoländer Ufer 1, for 160 marks), fols. 1r, 2r, 286v red stamps of the Royal Library (Latin inscription). Fol. 1r title. Historia Poloniae et Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae. Cum annexis Provinciis ab harum origine usque ad obitum Ioannis III. Regis Poloniae. Authore R.P. Szpot Societatis Iesu Theologo Pontificio, a Confessionibus in Urbe. Opus multa arcana continens, collecta ex variis Manuscriptis, Relationibus, ab Authore dum adhuc in Patria degeret, fol. 2r blank, fols. 2r–270r Origo Nominis Poloniæ. Compendium variarum ex Historicis Polonis collectum, Bl. 2r–3v Origo Nominis. Nomen hov Polonia et distinctivum gentis Pagino non est antiquum..., Bl. 3v–4v Origo Regni Poloniæ. Omnes fere historici nostri referunt..., Bl. 4v–5r Stemmatis regni Poloniæ, quæ est Aquila alba, extensis ad volandum pennis in campo purpureo. Origo. Coronatus originem ejus deducit a Lecho..., Bl. 5rv Limites Regni Poloniæ. Quantos Sarmatia Europea limites habuerit..., Bl. 5v–240v Successio Principum & Regum Poloniæ. Primus Princeps et Rex Poloniæ Lechus I. Non est dubium Sarmatas ante Lechum suas Principes et Duces habuisse..., Bl. 240v–267r Secundus Princeps (atque) Rex Poloniæ Ioannes. III. Filius Jacobi Sobieski Castellani Cracouiensis Principis Senatus sæcularis. De hoc Principe traditur cum natus esset..., Bl. 267r–270r Russia. Russia, qua etiam Raqdania dicitur, alia est septentrionalis, qua alba dicitur, alia autrakis, qua etiam Russia partim rubra, partim nigra nominatur..., Bl. 270r–273v Prussia. Prusiam olim gentes incoluerant non ab similes ritibus moribus et linguâ, imò Lituanis ut nonnulli Historici Stella et Dlugos attingunt ejusdem ferè originis, Prussia seu Borussia ac Lituania fuere..., Bl. 273v–275v Masouia. Masouia est ea Prouincia et
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The part of Poland which borders on Ducal Prussia on one side, Royal Prussia on another, Podlachia on a third, and finally Greater Poland and Lesser Poland on the fourth..., Bl. 275v–276r Samogitia. Samogitia, a province or Duchy of the Samogitians, and, as Vaporius also wishes, the seat of the Massagetae, is divided from Lithuania..., Bl. 276rv Podlachia. Podlachia or Subsgluania is a region and province of the Kingdom of Poland, between Prussia, Masovia, Lithuania, and Lesser Poland, formerly inhabited by the Iazyges or Iaziuingians..., Bl. 276v–277r Livonia. It is uncertain from which province this name was received..., Bl. 277v–278r Provinces and palatinates. Palatinates are named after palatines; moreover, “palatines” are named after the palace, because they are the king’s councillors..., Bl. 278rv Greater Poland. The first palatinate is Poznań, whose coat of arms is a white eagle..., Bl. 278v–279r Lesser Poland. The first palatinate is Kraków, whose coat of arms is a white eagle with its wings spread for flight..., Bl. 279rv Duchy of Lithuania. In this province there are two notable things: first, the common coat of arms of its palatinates is an armed knight riding at a gallop with a drawn sword..., Bl. 279v Rus’. The first palatinate is the one properly called the Palatinate of Rus’. Its outer emblem is a crowned lion cub in a field..., Bl. 279v–280r Prussia. The first palatinate is Chełmno, whose outer coat of arms is a white eagle with its wings spread in the sky, a golden crown on its right wing..., Bl. 280r Masovia. The first palatinate is the one properly called the Palatinate of Masovia, whose coat of arms is a white eagle with wings spread in a red field, crowned with a ducal mitre, as the castellan has..., Bl. 280r Duchy of Samogitia. It retains its name and has no palatine, but a captain or prefect..., Bl. 280r Podlachia. It has only one palatinate, in which there is one land, Bielsk, and three districts..., Bl. 280rv Livonia. There is only one palatinate and one castellan; the coat of arms of the palatinate is a white griffin..., Bl. 280v–284r Wallachia. The prince of this province is called a palatine, by analogy with the palatines of Poland..., Bl. 284v–285r Order of the Senators of the Kingdom of Poland. The Archbishop of Gniezno. His dignity in Poland is the highest..., Bl. 285r–186v Secular Senators. After the bishops, they hold the place next to the king. The Castellan of Kraków...
Mentioned in Ms. Cat. A 557/16.
18) Cod. Simul. 298: Photomechanical copy of: Aldona Gustas: Elche meine Brüder, supplement, German, to her: Briedžiai mano broliai. Poems, Vilnius 1983.
100 typewritten pages. Unbound. General shelfmark: 524810.
19) Ms. slav. fol. 1: Christoph Sigmund Pac: Royal decrees [Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac: Xiegi dekretalowe roku 1650 za dicrty wielmoznego iego mosci Pana
Autograph. Reddish-brown leather over wooden boards, with gold engraving; title label at the top of the spine. Paper. Watermark: a circle containing a cross with three bars ending in paws, accompanied by two six-pointed stars; cursive script, one hand. Provenance: fol. 4r, shelfmark of the Royal Library; fol. 707v, red stamp of the Royal Library in Berlin (Latin inscription). Fols. 1r–3v blank; fols. 4r–5r register; fols. 5r–719v decretals, arranged chronologically; fols. 5r–15v, 45v, 79v, 96v, 127rv, 149v, 192rv, 277rv, 299v, 305v–306v, 446v, 586v, 708r–710v, 720r–725v blank.
The description is based on https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/publication/291844/edition/279209/content (consulted 27.10.2019). On Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac (1621–1684), see Wolff 1885: 150–171, here 152 f. (excluding this manuscript).
20) Ms. slav. fol. 2: Christoph Sigmund Pac: Royal Decrees [Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac: Zięgi dekretalowe roku 1650 za dicrty wielmoznego jego mosci Pana Christopha Paca Chorazego WXI, starosty wilkowskiego], vol. 2, 352 fols., Wilna, 1650, October–December.
Autograph. Black cardboard binding (17th century?), title label at the top of the spine. Paper. Cursive script, one hand. Previous ownership: fol. 4r, shelfmark of the Royal Library; fols. 4v, 351v, red stamps of the Royal Library in Berlin (Latin inscription). Fols. 1r–3v blank; fols. 4r–351v decrees, arranged chronologically; fol. 352rv blank.
The description is based on https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/publication/292270/edition/279604/content? (consulted 27.10.2019). On Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac (1621–1684), see Wolff 1885: 150–171, here 152 f. (excluding this manuscript).
21) Ms. slav. fol. 3: Receipt book of the Lithuanian treasurer and court treasurer, Stefan Pac [Kopiariusz kancelarii podskarbiego litewskiego Stefana Paca], 306 fols., Lithuania (Wilna?), 1631–1634.
Autograph. Binding: parchment over wooden boards, from an antiphonary, square neumes on four lines, 14th century, VD CAO 6789, HD CAO 4747. Paper, watermark:
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Fish in a circle, two-contoured (fol. 305), ruled pages, pagination by the scribe, 35 lines, chancery script, one hand, frequent catchwords, Polish. Provenance: inside front cover, ownership note? Maryn Kuspi; fol. 2r, shelfmark of the Royal Library in Berlin; fols. 2v, 302v, red stamps of the Royal Library in Berlin (Latin transcription). The genre and purpose of the official register are apparent from the heading on fol. 180r (see below). Fols. 1r–10v alphabetical index, fols. 1v–4v, 5v, 7rv, 8v–9v, 10v–11v blank; fols. 12r–14v, 6 documents (undated); fols. 15r–35v, 49 documents (1631); fol. 25r blank; fols. 36r–40v, 14 documents (1631 and 1631/1632); fol. 41rv blank; fols. 42r–97v, 61 documents (1631); fol. 98rv blank; fols. 99r–118r, 16 documents (1631); fols. 118v–120v blank; fols. 121r–130v, 7 documents (1623, 1627, 1627, undated); fols. 131r–134v blank; fols. 135r–145v, 8 documents (1631); fols. 146r–148v blank; fols. 149r–150r, 5 documents (1632); fols. 150r–157v, 42 documents (1632); fol. 158rv blank; fol. 159r, heading. Rok Panski 1633; fol. 159v blank; fols. 160r–173r, 12 documents; fol. 173v blank; fols. 174r–179v, 6 documents; fols. 180r–213v Kwity odszczenia Trybunału Skarbowego, Panom Poborcom dane na Cztery Pobory oboey Raty na Seymise. Trzyniedzielnym w Roku 1632 Vchwalone., 28 documents; fols. 214r–215r, one document (1634); fols. 216v–216v blank; fols. 217r–302v Rok Panski 1634. 62 documents; fols. 303r–305v blank; fols. 306rv, inside back cover, change of hand? Notes and calculations.
Description based on https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/publication/292279/edition/279610/content (consulted 25.10.2019). On Stefan Pac (1587–1640), private secretary to King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland (from 1611), court treasurer of Lithuania and treasurer of Lithuania (both from 1630), see Wolff 1885: 80–88, here 82–84 (excluding this manuscript).
22) Ms. slav. fol. 4: Privileges of the Kings of Poland for the City of Vilna [Sumariusz liberatij od świątobliwej pamięci krolow... jako ij teraz krolatemu szczęśliweman [i.d. szczęśliwym] pamięćego Pana Kaszi (miri Miłosciwego) miastu Wilenskie-mu nadanych ktore pres Mikołaja z Ciechanowca Kiszka wojewodę Mscisławskiego zrewidowane ij De Verbo ad Verbum wpisanę są. Działo sie w Wilnie dnia 22 miesiąca septembra Anno 1633], 48 fols., Vilna, 1633, September 22.
Brown cardboard binding, title label at the top of the spine (worn), corners covered with leather, front cover with title in ink (nearly rubbed off), pasted-on shelfmark label of the Royal Library (damaged). Paper, torn away at both lower corners. Earlier pagination and old numbering of the privileges,
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Cursive, several hands. Provenance: inside front cover, numeral 28; fol. 1r, shelfmark of the Royal Library in Berlin; fol. 23v, red stamp of the Royal Library in Berlin (Latin transcription). Fol. 1r, title; fol. 1v blank; fols. 21r–23r, 32 privileges; fols. 23v–48v blank.
See https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/publication/292432/edition/279735/content (consulted 31.10.2019). On Nikolaus Kiszka (c. 1588–1644), voivode of Dorpat (1617–1626) and Mszislau (1626–1636), castellan of Trakai (1636–1640), grand treasurer of Lithuania (1640–1644), starost of Waukawysk (1637) and Mahiljow / Mogiljow (1644), see PSB 1966: 513.
23) Ms. slav. fol. 7: The Statutes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 1595. Occasionally also prayers and songs [Statut Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego z roku 1595. Przy tym okolicznościowe modlitwy i pieśni]. 224 fols., Poland-Lithuania, late 16th century.
Reddish-brown leather binding, front cover frame with floral stamps; inner field: plant tendrils in the corners, an open flower at the center top and bottom, three open flowers arranged vertically on both the left and right; central medallion with the profile of a man wearing a hat, inscription above STATVT (KWL); back cover with a double frame on the left and right and a multiple frame at the bottom: interlace, floral stamps (17th century). Fol. 1 torn (with loss of leaf and text); ruled in red ink, cursive, one hand, catchwords, chapter headings and numbering, majuscules at the beginning of a section in red, Polish. Provenance: fol. 1r, red stamp of the Royal Library in Berlin (Latin transcription); stamp of the Schutzstaffel (two Iron Crosses arranged vertically within a wreath, separated by a ribbon, to the right and left of the uppermost cross pattée the initials SS). Fols. 1r–6v, notes (letter?); fols. 7r–9v blank; fol. 10r, title; fol. 10v blank; fols. 11rv, privilege of Sigismund III of Poland-Lithuania (Krakow, 1588); fols. 12r–29v, index (of 14 books); fols. 30rv blank; fols. 31r–47r, Book 1. 35 chapters; fols. 47v–54r, Book 2. 27 chapters; fols. 54r–73v, Book 3. 51 chapters; fols. 74r–125v, Book 4. 105 chapters; fols. 126r–133v, Book 5. 22 chapters; fols. 133v–139r, Book 6. 15 chapters; fols. 139r–148r, Book 7. 31 chapters; fols. 148v–150v, Book 8. 9 chapters; fols. 151r–162v, Book 9. 32 chapters; fols. 163r–166v, Book 10. 18 chapters; fols. 167r–190r, Book 11. 68 chapters; fols. 190v–198r, Book 12. 24 chapters; fols. 198v–201v, Book 13. 14 chapters; fols. 202r–213r, Book 14. 37 chapters; fols. 231v–217v blank; fol. 218r Trybunał Obiwatelem Wielikoho Kniaztwa Litowskoho na Soyme Warszawkomdani (1591?); fol. 218v blank; fols. 219r–228r Sposob Praw Tribunalskich. Begins Stephan ZBozci miłości...; fols. 228v–229v Priwiley preiozenia
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Description based on https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/publication/292131/edition/279449/ content (consulted 24 October 2019).
24) Ms. slav. fol. 12: Guest register at the court of King Władysław IV in Vilnius [Revisia gospod dworoviego krolevskiei m[o]lsci w miescie Wilnie pod bytnosc krola iegomosci [Władysława IV.] w roku 1636], 101 fols., Vilnius, 1636.
Brown leather over wooden boards (17th c.); front cover with a triple frame of double fillet lines, the middle frame decorated with quatrefoils, central field with a medallion, wreath and flowers on the outside, lily crown with arch above, inner field divided and quartered, each compartment with a flower, the whole decorated with a heart-shaped panel (each rubbed). Provenance: fol. 1r owner’s inscription (16 January 1691, Stanislaw...), shelfmark of the Royal Library (ms. slav. Fol. 12), fol. 97v red stamp of the Royal Library, Berlin (Latin inscription). Fol. 1r title, fol. 1v blank, fols. 2r–97r names, sorted and numbered by date and page [at the audience?], fols. 97v–101v blank.
Description based on https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/publication/292770/edition/280061/ content (consulted 24 October 2019).
25) Ms. slav. fol. 15: Guest register at the court in Vilnius [Rewizja gospód dla dworu królewskiego w Wilnie], I + 57 fols., Vilnius, 17th c.
White leather over wooden boards (17th c.); front and back covers with a double frame of double fillet lines or a beaded band, central field with a vase, two handles, and a bouquet of three rings of flowers (inner ring 16 buds, around it 12 buds, outer flowers in three directions: vertical, diagonally upward to the left or right, and horizontal); cursive script, one hand (writing heavily rubbed). Provenance: fol. 2r shelfmark of the Royal Library (ms. Slav. Fol. 15), fols. 2r, 54r red stamps of the Royal Library (Latin inscription). Fols. 1rv blank, fols. 2r–54r names, sorted and numbered by date and page [at the audience?], fols. 54v–57v blank.
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Description based on https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/publication/294124/edition/281294/content (consulted 24 October 2019).
26) Ms. slav. fol. 47: Documents concerning land and property matters of noble families in the Voivodeship of Trakai [Collection of eighteen original documents from the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, mainly concerning property matters, dating], 41 fols., Lithuania, 1568–1777.
Cardboard leaves, single or double, various formats, inserted in a cardboard cover. Cursive scripts, Polish and Belarusian. Provenance: Each leaf bears a red stamp and accession number of the Royal Library, Berlin (acc. ms. [4 May] 1917, 32: from the Akramowski estate near Terrie, sold by Lieutenant Erwin Maßmann, Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Waghäusenerstraße 19i). 18 documents.
Description based on https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/publication/294389/edition/281787/content (consulted 31 October 2019) and Ms. Cat. A 557/16.
Paper. Previous owner: From the Royal House Library, Berlin: B8327 or B8927 (acc. ms. [18 February] 1962, 28). The texts are bilingual, except for the first poem, a Lithuanian translation of Hail to Thee in the Victor’s Crown; fol. 4r contains musical notation.
Mentioned in Ms. Cat. A 557/16.
LITERATURE
Aleknavičienė Ona 2011: Pirmasis Baltramiejaus Vilento Enchiridiono leidimas: terminus ad quem – 1572-ieji. – Archiwum Lithuanicum 11. Vilnius: Lietuvių kalbos institutas.
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Bechtel Fritz 1882: Bartholomäus Willent’s litauische Uebersetzung des Luther’schen Enchiridions und der Episteln und Evangelien, nebst den Varianten der von Lazarus Sengstock besorgten Ausgabe dieser Schriften. Mit einer Einleitung hrsg. von Fritz Bechtel. Göttingen: R. Peppmüller.
Becker Peter Jörg 1986: Kurzes Verzeichnis der von Hermann Degering nicht mehr erfaßten Handschriften in Folio. Ms. germ. fol. 1384–Ms. germ. fol. 1500. Berlin: Typoscript (auch als Digitalisat der SBB PK).
Blažienė Grasilda 2000: Die baltischen Ortsnamen im Samland. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
Blažienė Grasilda 2001: Stand und Aufgaben der altpreußischen Onomastik. – Namenkundliche Beiträge Wolfgang P. Schmid zum 70. Geburtstag. Hrsg. von Friedhelm Debus. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 47–60.
Blažienė Grasilda 2005: Baltische Ortsnamen in Ostpreußen. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
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ABBREVIATIONS & SIGLA
BPAW – Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences; SB – Bavarian State Library; HD – back cover; ÖNB – Austrian National Library; PStA – Polish State Archives; SBB PK – Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage; UB – University Library; VD – front cover; VD 16 – Catalogue of Books Printed in the German-Speaking Countries in the 16th Century; VD 17 – Catalogue of Books Printed in the German-Speaking Countries in the 17th Century.
Prussica and Lithuanica in the Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage
SUMMARY
The article “Prussica and Lithuania in the Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage” briefly reviews the circumstances in which more than thirty manuscripts in German, Latin, Prussian, or Lithuanian entered the Royal Prussian Library in Berlin in the 19th century, as well as some research aspects, and provides brief descriptions. Prussica and Lithuanica manuscripts came to the Berlin State Library in various ways—they were sold, donated, inherited, or transferred from other libraries. Lithuanica essentially comprises manuscripts written in Lithuanian or related to Lithuania, while Prussica consists of “linguistic monuments” associated with Sudovia and other Prussian tribes and their lands bordering Lithuania. The article does not include manuscripts that have already been catalogued and are readily accessible to researchers. What can be expected from the manuscripts discussed? They contain information about the Baltic tribes northeast of the Vistula and southwest of the Nemunas; about the Christianization of this region; they offer the possibility of looking back retrospectively to the pagan past and becoming reacquainted with the Baltic deities; Baltic languages became the languages of sermons and prayers in the Reformed Church, and Martin Luther’s Kleine Catechismus was translated into them—and much else of interest is to be found.
This article is dedicated to Grasilda Blažienė, who diligently researches the Prussian language and everything related to it.
