Tables
1 The contents of Magdeburg’s Legal Instructions for Wrocław (1261 and 1295), Magdeburg Bench Law, and the Constitution of Courts in selected texts of the Weichbild. Source: author’s own compilation based on: Appendix 1; Paul Laband, Magdeburger Rechtsquellen. Zum akademischen Gebrauch herausgegeben (Königsberg, 1869), pp. 48–49 and 110–111; Ferdinand Bischoff, “Beiträge zur Geschichte des Magdeburgerrechts”, Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften: Philosophisch-Historische Classe 50/4 (1865), 289–291 45
2 References to the Sachsenspiegel in the marginal glosses of Mikołaj Jaskier’s edition of the Weichbild. Source: author’s own compilation 46
3 Provisions of the Sachsenspiegel incorporated into Cracow MS (BJ 169) via Magdeburg’s Legal Instructions for Wrocław of 1261. Source: author’s own compilation 49
4 Comparison of the text of Article 27 in Cracow MS (BJ 169) and the matching passages in Magdeburg’s Legal Instructions for Wrocław of 1261 (1261Wr.), Magdeburg Bench Law (MSR), and Wawel MS (BJ 168). Source: author’s own compilation 57
5 Contents of Baworowscy MS (BN 12607). Source: author’s own compilation based on the research of F. Ebel and R. Schelling, and the National Library inventory of medieval and early 16th-century manuscripts (Inwentarz rękopisów do połowy XVI wieku w zbiorach Biblioteki Narodowej) 60
6 Comparison of the Article 22 with matching phrases in German manuscripts. Source: author’s own compilation. Numbering of articles follows the MS BJ 169 65
7 Contents of Part IV of Działyńscy Codex I. Source: author’s own compilation based on a critical analysis of Part IV of MS Dział. I and the literature, i.e. Antoni Z. Helcel, Starodawne prawa polskiego pomniki poprzedzone wywodem historyczno krytycznym tak zwanego Prawodawstwa Wiślickiego Kaziémirza Wielkiego w texcie ze starych rękopism krytycznie dobranym [Ancient Monuments of Polish Law with a Critical-Historical Introduction to the Legislation Known as Kazimerz the Great’s Statute of Wiślica: A Critical Edition of Its Text Collected from Old Manuscripts] (Warszawa, 1856), pp. XXX–XXXI and Jerzy Zathey, Katalog rękopisów średniowiecznych Biblioteki Kórnickiej [A Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts in Kórnik Library] (Wrocław, 1963), p. 449 ff. 82
8 Formal features of the Latin texts of the Weichbild as compared with that of Cracow MS (BJ 169) and Wawel MS (BJ 168). Source: author’s own compilation 101
9 Articles 56, 57, 76 and 77 of the Weichbild and their origin. Source: author’s own compilation 104
10 Petersburg MS (F 143): Quantitative analysis of textual divergences from Gniezno MS (Gn.). Source: author’s own compilation based on Appendix 2 108
11 Divergences from Gniezno MS (Gn.) in Baworowscy MS (BN 12607), Opatów MS (Oss.) and Żagań MS (II Q 4). Source: author’s own compilation based on Appendix 2 111
12 Text displacements within Article 24, 76 and 87. Source: author’s own compilation 112
13 Provisions concerning servants’ wages and complaints about the price and quality of food in Baworowscy MS (BN 12607). Source: author’s own compilation 113
14 Two ortyle included in Article 48 and 73 of the Statutes in selected German and Latin MSS. Source: author’s own compilation 117
15 Conformity of the Latin texts in MS Gn., MS BN 12607 and MS Dział. IV with the German texts in the MSR, MS BJ 168, MS BN 12607 and MS BJ 170a as indicated by divergences that do not conform with MS BJ 169. Source: author’s own compilation based on Appendix 3 125
16 Divergences in the Latin translation in the Gniezno MS (Gn.) and the Baworowscy MS (BN 12607). Source: author’s own compilation based on Appendix 3 133
17 Notable divergences from the German base in the wording of some provisions in Gniezno MS (Gn.) and Baworowscy MS (BN 12607). Source: author’s own compilation 136
18 Differences of vocabulary in selected Latin texts of the Weichbild. Source: author’s own compilation 138
19 Characteristics of the Weichbild in Jan Łaski’s Statutes as compared to the Gniezno MS (Gn.). Source: author’s own compilation 151
20 Examples of the use and adaptation of provisions from the versio Sandomiriensis and the Cracow version in Łaski’s Statutes. Source: author’s own compilation 153
21 The origin of provisions and various significant amendations in Łaski’s Statutes. Source: author’s own compilation 154
22 Types of glosses added to the texts of the Weichbild. Source: author’s own compilation 192
23 Borrowings from the Cracow version in Działyńscy Codex I (Dział. I), Żegota Pauli’s MS (BJ 4405) and Leipzig MS (951b). Source: author’s own compilation. Source: author’s own compilation 196
24 A list of Latin legal terms and their Polish equivalents including extracts from bilingual glossaries of the Magdeburg Law in Działyńscy Codex I (Dział. I) and the Tomasz of Bydgoszcz’s MS (BN 3068). Source: author’s own compilation 204
25 Regulae iuris in the Weichbild of Działyńscy Codex I (Dział. I) and Tomasz of Bydgoszcz’s MS (BN 3068). Source: author’s own compilation 209
26 Concordance table of articles, part 1 246
27 Concordance table of articles, part 2 252
28 Concordance table of articles, part 3 258
Figures
1 Borrowings from Magdeburg’s Legal Instructions for Wrocław of 1261 and 1295, the Magdeburg Bench Law (MSR) and the Constitution of Courts (RGV) in the Weichbild manuscripts. Source: Appendix 1 48
2 Quantitative analysis of divergences from the text of Gniezno MS in subsequent Latin texts on the basis of data collected in Appendix 2 (in per cent). Source: Appendix 2 107
3 Share of the Sandomierz version and the Cracow version in the Weichbild of Commune incliti. Source: author’s own compilation 157
4 Evolution of the Latin texts of the Weichbild in the Silesian-Małopolska compilation. A slash separates manuscripts that form close pairs even though they are not directly related. Source: author’s own compilation 232
Photos
1 Cracow City Council manuscript, Jagiellonian Library in Cracow, Shelfmark 169 III, f. 275r.
2 Manuscript of High Court of German Law at the Royal Castle of Wawel, Jagiellonian Library in Cracow, Shelfmark 168 III, f. 75r.
3 Liber legum – the book of law of Przemyśl, State Archive in Przemyśl, Acts of the Town Przemyśl, Shelfmark 428, f. 16v–17r.
4 Warsaw manuscript, University of Warsaw Library, Shelfmark 5, f. 1r.
5 Żagań manuscript, University of Wrocław Library, Shelfmark II Q 4, f. 2v–3r. Photo: Wrocław University Library 148
6 Commune Incliti Poloniae Regni privilegium constitutionum et indultuum publicitus decretorum approbatorumque, ed. Jan Łaski (Cracoviae, 1506), k. 179r, Jagiellonian Library in Cracow, Shelfmark St. Dr. Cim. 8002. Jagiellonian Library in Cracow, Shelfmark St. Dr. Cim. 8002;
7 Działyńscy Codex I, The Kórnik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Shelfmark 801, f. 139v;
8 Żegota Pauli’s manuscript, Jagiellonian Library in Cracow, Shelfmark 4405, f. 100v; Photo: Jagiellonian Library in Cracow 189
9 Tomasz of Bydgoszcz’s manuscript, The National Library in Warsaw, Shelfmark 3068 III, f. 20r;
10 Marcin Zabowski’s manuscript, The National Library in Warsaw, Shelfmark BOZ 90, f. 45v;