Liber primus. Anmerkungen zum Roten Buch als dem ersten Stadtbuch von Görlitz (1305–1343)
Liber primus. Remarks Concerning the Red Book as the Oldest Book of Records of the Town Görlitz (1305–1343)

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses problems of the rise of the town chancery in Görlitz and the early practices of registration of legal acts, based on the oldest part of the first book of records of the town, the so-called Red Book. The legal acts registered in the book were discussed according to their classification used in medieval Görlitz: all of them were classified as Resignationes, Entscheide, Obligationes, or Recognitiones. Some attention was also devoted to the fragments of the Red Book that could be treated as elements of the governance system of the town, where not only private transactions were noted, but also cases important for the community of townspeople.

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