Marston MS 254   Germany, s. XIII [?]
Legal document, in Middle High German, in roll format

[First article:] Ein vogt ze blixberg sol och alle iar ze dinge sin ze 
ongersheim an deme nehisten mantage nach sancte martins tage...;
[second article:] er sol och hie sin alle iar an deme mantage, nach der
liehtemes, vnd an deme abende...; [last article:] der hof sol och gaben,
deme dorfen einen pfeh rem [?] und ein eber.

Constitution for the dinghof or colonge of Ingersheim in Alsace, 
consisting of 16 articles.  A later French translation of this text 
is edited by M. L'Abbe Hanauer, Les constitutions des campagnes de 
l'Alsace au moyen-age (Paris-Strasbourg, 1865) pp. 349-54.  It is 
possible that some text has been lost at the beginning.


Parchment roll consisting of 2 irregularly trimmed membranes stitched
together, the whole measuring 1250 x 155 (widest part)-118 (narrowest
part) mm.  Written in neat gothic hand by a single scribe who placed a
paragraph mark before each article.  Roll shows considerable use.  Boxed.

Written in Alsace probably in the 13th century; provenance unknown. 
Purchased in 1958 from Roux-Devillas, Paris, by L. C. Witten (inv. no. 2125),
who sold it in 1959 to Thomas E. Marston.

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 94, no. 254.

Barbara A. Shailor