In this act, Charles IV (1314-1378, crowned emperor in 1355) authorizes Countess Irmengard of Nassau († 1371) to collect tolls in her villages, courts, and towns, as did her father, Kraft II von Hohenlohe-Weikersheim († 1344), before her. The revenues are intended to repay the Empire's debts owed her. Attached to the document by a parchment strip, the fragmentary wax seal is that of King Charles IV. After passing several centuries in the Hohenlohe family, the document was sold by the auction house of J. A. Stargardt in Marburg to Martin Bodmer in 1969. (rou)

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This manuscript contains the Pastorale novellum by Rudolf von Liebegg (around 1275-1332), canon and provost of Bischofszell. The widely known canonical-theological didactic poem in 8,723 hexameters is incomplete in this manuscript and has gaps. Two hands shared the copying of the poem. According to the colophon at the end of the work (p. 211), the second scribe, Johannes Mündli, completed his work on May 5, 1354 in Rottweil. Later the manuscript was owned by the Conventual and jurist Johannes Bischoff († 1495) of St. Gall. (len)

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