Würzburg Documents

These documents, dating from 4 September 1711 to 22 December 1726, originate from the diocese of Würzburg. The time span covers three different Prince-Bishops: Johann Philipp von Greiffenclau zu Vollraths, Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn, and Christoph Franz von Hutten. As Prince-Bishops, these leaders were responsible not only for the religious concerns of the community, but also for the social, economic, and political welfare of the state.

While the documents are, at this point, uncataloged, you can search them by subject and number.

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Index by Subject

Through an examination of the documents, nineteen categories were developed to characterize the contents of the documents. Choose a link below for a category description and a list of related documents.

A guide to this collection is also available by document number.

Religious

For a collection of documents issued by the diocese of Würzburg, one might believe that most of them would pertain to a religious matter. In fact, this is one of the smaller categories. The documents in this category contain descriptions of funeral services, rules for fasting, and similar concerns.

Related Documents: 251o, 265o, 293o, 294o, 307o, 314o, 315, 319, 345, 350o, 379o, 408o, 415, 423

Papal

This category contains documents relating to the three popes (Clement XI, Innocent XIII, Benedict XIII) who ruled from 1711 to 1726. Most are papal decrees.

Related Documents: 362, 409o, 426oo, 443o, 367, 425o, 430, 460o

Agriculture

This broad category contains decrees mostly concerning cattle and crops (fruit and grain). In addition to agricultural products, topics represented here include imports, exports, pricing, and disease.

Related Documents:: 252o, 253, 258o, 259, 260o, 261, 262o, 263o, 264, 266, 281, 283, 285oo, 289, 296o, 297, 298o, 332, 358, 377o, 380o, 391o, 401o, 415, 416, 428, 431, 433o, 435, 436, 438, 439, 444, 453, 454, 455, 464o, 473, 475, 476, 484o, 488

Health

All decrees relating to disease, whether in humans or animals, are listed here. Also included are decrees relating to sanitation.

Related Documents: 252o, 253, 259, 260o, 261, 262o, 263o, 264, 266, 267, 268oo, 269, 270, 273, 275o, 276o, 277, 278, 279, 281, 282, 301, 302, 303, 330o, 335, 347, 354o, 365, 366m, 372m, 373, 380o, 384o, 392o, 407o, 416, 417, 439, 490, 495o

Hunting

These documents give instructions and laws relating to hunting, including the use of dogs.

Related Documents: 250o, 256o, 320, 349, 352, 358, 371, 481, 485

Soldiers

Because of the numerous wars occurring between 1711 and 1726, there are several documents in the collection that pertain to local and foreign soldiers.

Related Documents: 286o, 291o, 339, 368o, 376, 400o, 420, 426oo, 450o, 468, 469, 496

Beggars

These documents give laws governing beggars and also instruct others in the treatment of beggars.

Related Documents: 275o, 277, 291o, 301, 303, 334, 336, 337, 341, 346, 397, 402, 405, 417, 472o

Thieves

These decrees give laws pertaining to thievery and also warn citizens of dangerous bands of thieves reported in the area.

Related Documents: 257o, 298o, 299, 336, 337, 338, 340, 346, 349, 352, 353, 371, 394, 399, 402, 405, 491, 492o

Immigrants

Jews and gypsies are the two largest groups of people included in this category. All decrees that do not simply list these groups among the list of towns people are included here.

Related Documents: 262o, 267, 269, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275o, 277, 278, 280oo, 291o, 301, 303, 306o, 337, 338, 339, 340, 346, 370, 381o, 397, 399, 404o, 413, 417, 424o, 446, 477, 489, 492o

Obituaries

These are the death notices of the Bishops, Pope Clement XI, and other important people.

Related Documents: 315, 317, 319, 323o, 362, 367, 421o, 422, 423

Secondary Decrees

These are decrees issued by another authority that are being "rebroadcast" in Würzburg.

Related Documents: 268oo, 280oo, 285oo, 286o, 292oo, 295o, 378o

Commerce

This category includes the setting of prices, importation and exportation of goods, and other general business concerns.

Related Documents: 285oo, 287o, 290o, 296o, 300o, 306o, 307o, 308o, 309o, 310o, 312o, 322o, 326o, 328o, 331o, 332, 333o, 347, 348, 355o, 359, 360, 361o, 368o, 378o, 389, 391o, 392o, 414, 429, 433o, 444, 446, 447, 451o, 452, 453, 454, 457o, 458o, 459m, 462, 465, 466, 471o, 473, 474, 476, 478o, 482, 483, 486o, 487o, 494, 497

Currency

Most of these regulations concern coinage. Some establish "exchange" values, while others announce counterfeits. Many contain pictures.

Related Documents: 288o, 292oo, 295o, 311o, 378o, 385o, 432, 437, 456o, 463, 470

Lottery

A lottery was conducted in 1724. These three documents give rules and regulations.

Related Documents: 410m, 410oo, 418

Taxes

All decrees relating to the assessing, collection, and paying of taxes are included here.

Related Documents: 257o, 304, 313o, 313.5, 334, 406, 412, 414, 419, 434, 459m

Jurisprudence

This, the largest category, includes not only decrees that establish fines and punishments for different crimes, but also legal decrees of a more general nature, such as building and fire ordinances.

Related Documents: 250o, 257o, 258o, 280oo, 287o, 289, 291o, 294o, 296o, 299, 300o, 304, 307o, 308o, 309o, 310o, 313o, 313.5, 321, 322o, 329, 331o, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 340, 341, 345, 349, 350o, 351, 352, 353, 354o, 355o, 356, 358, 361o, 364, 369, 370, 371, 375, 380o, 381o, 382o, 386o, 389, 390, 393, 394, 396o, 397, 398o, 400o, 401o, 403, 404o, 406, 407o, 412, 413, 414, 415, 419, 420, 427o, 431, 434, 435, 436, 438, 446, 447, 448, 450o, 451o, 452, 454, 455, 456o, 457o, 458o, 459m, 464o, 465o, 471o, 472o, 474, 475, 478o, 479o, 480, 481, 482, 484o, 485, 486o, 487o, 489, 490, 491, 493o, 494, 495o, 496, 497

Justice System

These documents give instructions for public officials and lawyers. Guidelines for the treatment of witnesses are also included here. None of these documents are included in the Jurisprudence category.

Related Documents: 254, 324, 325, 327o, 342, 343, 344, 357o, 383, 387, 388, 395, 399, 402, 405, 440, 441o, 442, 445

Eclipses

These documents stood out in their uniqueness of topic, so have been granted their own category. These documents give instructions for what to do during a predicted solar eclipse.

Related Documents: 297, 416, 439

Miscellaneous

Documents listed in this category are different from the others in some way. The following represent some of the possible reasons for inclusion here:

1. the document was issued by someone other than current the Bishop of Würzburg,
2. the contents of the document did not fit into one of the other eighteen categories,
3. the printing is of a different format than the other documents,
4. the document is a form to be completed.

There are two other documents in the collection. These two are so different that they are not included in the above categories or descriptions. One article is a portion of what might have been a book printed in Leipzig in 1602. The other article is similar to the Würzburg decrees described above, but this decree is handwritten, bears a seal, and is dated 1799 from Munich.

Related Documents: 253, 255o, 266, 271, 272, 284, 286o, 291o, 299, 305, 313.5, 316o, 317, 318, 319, 320, 346, 364, 386, 390, 393, 421o, 422, 423, 424o, 425o, 459m, 461h, 467, 492o

Three documents from the numbered series are missing: 363, 374, and 449.

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Index by Number

It would appear that these documents were originally issued individually. Relatively near to the time of issue, it seems these documents were bound together chronologically in one or more books. Instead of numbering each page, however, each document was given one number, regardless of the number of pages it contained. Before the collection was received by the library here, most of the documents had been separated back into single issues. The numbering system used in the presumed book format has been retained here as the item number for each document. The numbers range from 250 to 497.

The documents appear in four basic sizes. The standard size is a half sheet of paper, 21 cm x 34 cm. (Sometimes this is a folded full sheet of paper.) Letters are used to indicate the other three sizes. A full sheet of paper, 42 cm x 34 cm, is indicated by a single letter o (ex. 409o). Those few documents that are larger than a full sheet are indicated by a double letter o (ex. 426oo). The letter m is used to designate those documents smaller than the standard half sheet, approx. one quarter page in size, 16.5 cm x 19.5 cm (ex. 366m). The one document marked with an h (461h) was originally a standard half sheet; it was folded in half at some point, split into two parts, and is now only a quarter page (missing the left half page).

A guide to this collection is also available by subject.

Number	Date	Subjects
250o	4 Sep 1711	Jurisprudence, Hunting
251o	29 Oct 1711	Religious
252o	23 Nov 1711	Agriculture, Health
253	1711	Agriculture, Health, Miscellaneous
254	19 Dec 1711	Justice System
255o	[n.d.]	Miscellaneous
256o	23 May 1712	Hunting
257o	25 June 1712	Jurisprudence, Thieves, Taxes
258o	17 Aug 1712	Agriculture, Jurisprudence
259	23 Sep 1712	Agriculture, Health
260o	7 Oct 1712	Agriculture, Health
261	12 Oct 1712	Agriculture, Health
262o	4 Nov 1712	Agriculture, Health, Immigrants
263o	7 Dec 1712	Agriculture, Health
264	11 Dec 1712	Agriculture, Health
265o	1 Feb 1713	Religious
266	1712	Agriculture, Health, Miscellaneous
267	2 Sep 1713	Health, Immigrants
268oo	2 Sep 1713	Health, Secondary Decrees
269	2 Sep 1713	Health, Immigrants
270	[n.d.]	Health
271	1713	Immigrants, Miscellaneous
272	17??	Immigrants, Miscellaneous
273	7 Sep 1713	Health, Immigrants
274	13 Sep 1713	Immigrants
275o	15 Sep 1713	Health, Immigrants, Beggars
276o	23 Sep 1713	Health
277	27 Sep 1713	Health, Immigrants, Beggars
278	13 Nov 1713	Health, Immigrants
279	16 Nov 1713	Health
280oo	20 Feb 1714	Immigrants, Jurisprudence, Secondary Decrees
281	26 Mar 1714	Health
282	21 Apr 1714	Health
283	14 May 1714	Agriculture
284	8 June 1714	Miscellaneous
285oo	11 June 1714	Commerce, Secondary Decrees
286o	[1?] July 1714	Soldiers, Secondary Decrees, Miscellaneous
287o	28 July 1714	Commerce, Jurisprudence
288o	8 Aug 1714	Currency
289	8 Aug 1714	Jurisprudence
290o	15 Sep 1714	Commerce
291o	12 Nov 1714	Soldiers, Immigrants, Jurisprudence, Beggars, Miscellaneous
292oo	17 Nov 1714	Secondary Decrees, Currency
293o	4 Feb 1715	Religious
294o	21 Feb 1715	Religious, Jurisprudence
295o	9 Mar 1715	Secondary Decrees, Currency
296o	25 Apr 1715	Commerce, Jurisprudence
297	27 Apr 1715	Agriculture, Eclipses
298o	13 May 1715	Agriculture, Thieves
299	30 July 1715	Jurisprudence, Miscellaneous, Thieves
300o	14 Aug 1715	Commerce, Jurisprudence
301	26 Aug 1715	Health, Immigrants, Beggars
302	31 Aug 1715	Health
303	1 Oct 1715	Health, Immigrants, Beggars
304	7 Oct 1715	Jurisprudence, Taxes
305o	18 Apr 1716	Miscellaneous
306o	20 Jan 1717	Commerce, Immigrants
307o	17 Mar 1717	Religious, Commerce, Jurisprudence
308o	9 July 1717	Commerce, Jurisprudence
309o	31 Jan 1718	Commerce, Jurisprudence
310o	31 Jan 1718	Commerce, Jurisprudence
311o	12 Feb 1718	Currency
312o	29 July 1718	Commerce
313o	9 Aug 1718	Jurisprudence, Taxes
313.5	1718	Jurisprudence, Miscellaneous, Taxes
314o	21 Jan 1719	Religious
315	3 Aug 1719	Religious, Obituaries
316o	4 Aug 1719	Obituaries, Miscellaneous
317	4 Aug 1719	Obituaries, Miscellaneous
318	4 Aug 1719	Miscellaneous
319	9 Aug 1719	Religious, Obituaries, Miscellaneous
320	14 Aug 1719	Hunting, Miscellaneous
321	4 Nov 1719	Jurisprudence
322o	30 Dec 1719	Commerce, Jurisprudence
323o	12 Feb 1720	Obituaries
324	19 Feb 1720	Justice System
325	[n.d.]	Justice System
326o	1 Mar 1720	Commerce
327o	27 Mar 1720	Justice System
328o	10 Apr 1720	Commerce
329	13 Apr 1720	Jurisprudence
330o	16 Apr 1720	Health
331o	30 Apr 1720	Commerce, Jurisprudence
332	4 May 1720	Agriculture, Commerce
333o	6 May 1720	Commerce
334	7 May 1720	Jurisprudence, Beggars, Taxes
335	11 May 1720	Health, Jurisprudence
336	13 May 1720	Jurisprudence, Beggars, Thieves
337	28 June 1720	Immigrants, Jurisprudence, Beggars, Thieves
338	6 July 1720	Immigrants, Jurisprudence, Thieves
339	12 July 1720	Soldiers, Immigrants
340	31 July 1720	Immigrants, Jurisprudence, Thieves
341	22 Aug 1720	Jurisprudence, Beggars
342	2 Sep 1720	Justice System
343	1720	Justice System
344	[1624??]	Justice System
345	[n.d.]	Religious, Jurisprudence
346	7 Oct 1720	Immigrants, Beggars, Miscellaneous, Thieves
347	10 Oct 1720	Health, Commerce
348	12 Oct 1720	Commerce
349	4 Nov 1720	Jurisprudence, Hunting, Thieves
350o	22 Nov 1720	Religious, Jurisprudence
351	2 Dec 1720	Jurisprudence
352	14 Dec 1720	Jurisprudence, Hunting, Thieves
353	24 Dec 1720	Jurisprudence, Thieves
354o	10 Jan 1721	Health, Jurisprudence
355o	28 Jan 1721	Commerce, Jurisprudence
356	1 Feb 1721	Jurisprudence
357o	19 Feb 1721	Justice System
358	28 Mar 1721	Agriculture, Jurisprudence, Hunting
359	31 Mar 1721	Commerce
360	31 Mar 1721	Commerce
361o	2 Apr 1721	Commerce, Jurisprudence
362	5 Apr 1721	Papal, Obituaries
363	5 Apr 1721	MISSING
364	6 Apr 1721	Jurisprudence, Miscellaneous
365	16 Apr 1721	Health
366m	16 Apr 1721	Health
367	10 May 1721	Papal, Obituaries
368o	23 June 1721	Commerce, Soldiers
369	23 July 1721	Jurisprudence
370	5 Aug 1721	Immigrants, Jurisprudence
371	11 Aug 1721	Jurisprudence, Hunting, Thieves
372m	10 Oct 1721	Health
373	11 Oct 1721	Health
374	MISSING	MISSING
375	24 Nov 1721	Jurisprudence
376	30 Dec 1721	Soldiers
377o	2 Jan 1722	Agriculture
378o	15 Jan 1722	Commerce, Secondary Decrees, Currency
379o	15 Jan 1722	Religious
380o	3 Feb 1722	Agriculture, Health, Jurisprudence
381o	4 May 1722	Immigrants, Jurisprudence
382o	8 May 1722	Jurisprudence
383	8 May 1722	Justice System
384o	20 May 1722	Health
385o	22 May 1722	Currency
386o	22 May 1722	Jurisprudence, Miscellaneous
387	5 June 1722	Justice System
388	[?] June 1722	Justice System
389	[?] June 1722	Commerce, Jurisprudence
390	17 July 1722	Jurisprudence, Miscellaneous
391o	29 July 1722	Agriculture, Commerce
392o	18 Aug 1722	Health, Commerce
393	22 Aug 1722	Jurisprudence, Miscellaneous
394	13 Oct 1722	Jurisprudence, Thieves
395	13 Oct 1722	Justice System
396o	2 Dec 1722	Jurisprudence
397	3 Dec 1722	Immigrants, Jurisprudence, Beggars
398o	4 Feb 1723	Jurisprudence
399	4 Feb 1723	Immigrants, Thieves, Justice System
400o	10 Mar 1723	Soldiers, Jurisprudence
401o	3 Apr 1723	Agriculture, Jurisprudence
402	5 June 1723	Beggars, Thieves, Justice System
403	5 June 1723	Jurisprudence
404o	16 Aug 1723	Immigrants, Jurisprudence
405	18 Aug 1723	Beggars, Thieves, Justice System
406	1 Sep 1723	Jurisprudence, Taxes
407o	7 Dec 1723	Health, Jurisprudence
408o	4 Feb 1724	Religious
409o	6 Mar 1724	Papal
410m	16 Mar 1724	Lottery
411oo	24 Mar 1724	Lottery
412	6 Apr 1724	Jurisprudence, Taxes
413	24 Apr 1724	Immigrants, Jurisprudence
414	25 Apr 1724	Commerce, Jurisprudence, Taxes
415	10 May 1724	Agriculture, Religious, Jurisprudence
416	11 May 1724	Agriculture, Health, Eclipses
417	27 May 1724	Health, Immigrants, Beggars
418	7 July 1724	Lottery
419	24 July 1724	Jurisprudence, Taxes
420	26 July 1724	Soldiers, Jurisprudence
421o	19 Aug 1724	Obituaries, Miscellaneous
422	19 Aug 1724	Obituaries, Miscellaneous
423	23 Aug 1724	Religious, Obituaries, Miscellaneous
424o	31 Aug 1724	Immigrants, Miscellaneous
425o	9 Oct 1724	Papal, Miscellaneous
426oo	10 Oct 1724	Papal, Soldiers
427o	15 Nov 1724	Jurisprudence
428	22 Nov 1724	Agriculture
429	22 Nov 1724	Commerce
430	2 Jan 1725	Papal
431	5 Feb 1725	Agriculture, Jurisprudence
432	7 Mar 1725	Currency
433o	14 Mar 1725	Agriculture, Commerce
434	15 Mar 1725	Jurisprudence, Taxes
435	20 Mar 1725	Agriculture, Jurisprudence
436	28 Mar 1725	Agriculture, Jurisprudence
437o	10 Apr 1725	Currency
438	14 Apr 1725	Agriculture, Jurisprudence
439	18 Apr 1725	Agriculture, Health, Eclipses
440	18 Apr 1725	Justice System
441o	3 May 1725	Justice System
442	17 May 1725	Justice System
443o	19 May 1725	Papal
444	6 June 1725	Agriculture, Commerce
445	22 June 1725	Justice System
446	25 June 1725	Commerce, Immigrants, Jurisprudence
447	26 June 1725	Commerce, Jurisprudence
448	18 July 1725	Jurisprudence
449	31 July 1725	MISSING
450o	4 Aug 1725	Soldiers, Jurisprudence
451o	16 Aug 1725	Commerce, Jurisprudence
452	31 Aug 1725	Commerce, Jurisprudence
453	1 Sep 1725	Agriculture, Commerce
454	17 Sep 1725	Agriculture, Commerce, Jurisprudence
455	19 Dec 1725	Agriculture, Jurisprudence
456o	12 Jan 1726	Jurisprudence, Currency
457o	18 Feb 1726	Commerce, Jurisprudence
458o	[?] Mar 1726	Commerce, Jurisprudence
459m	15 Mar 1726	Commerce, Jurisprudence, Miscellaneous, Taxes
460o	16 Mar 1726	Papal
461h	13 Apr 1726	Miscellaneous
462	[?] Apr 1726	Commerce
463	24 Apr 1726	Currency
464o	24 Apr 1726	Agriculture, Jurisprudence
465o	27 Apr 1726	Commerce, Jurisprudence
466	6 May 1726	Commerce
467	6 May 1726	Miscellaneous
468	6 May 1726	Soldiers
469	6 May 1726	Soldiers
470	13 May 1726	Currency
471o	14 May 1726	Commerce, Jurisprudence
472o	20 May 1726	Jurisprudence, Beggars
473	3 June 1726	Agriculture, Commerce
474	4 June 1726	Commerce, Jurisprudence
475	8 June 1726	Agriculture, Jurisprudence
476	22 June 1726	Agriculture, Commerce
477	26 June 1726	Immigrants
478o	27 June 1726	Commerce, Jurisprudence
479o	27 June 1726	Jurisprudence
480	31 July 1726	Jurisprudence
481	1 Aug 1726	Jurisprudence, Hunting
482	9 Aug 1726	Commerce, Jurisprudence
483	16 Aug 1726	Commerce
484o	3 Sep 1726	Agriculture, Jurisprudence
485	4 Sep 1726	Jurisprudence, Hunting
486o	24 Sep 1726	Commerce, Jurisprudence
487o	1 Oct 1726	Commerce, Jurisprudence
488	14 Oct 1726	Agriculture
489	19 Oct 1726	Immigrants, Jurisprudence
490	26 Nov 1726	Health, Jurisprudence
491	28 Nov 1726	Jurisprudence, Thieves
492o	11 Nov 1726	Immigrants, Miscellaneous, Thieves
493o	5 Dec 1726	Jurisprudence
494	13 Dec 1726	Commerce, Jurisprudence
495o	17 Dec 1726	Health, Jurisprudence
496	18 Dec 1726	Soldiers, Jurisprudence
497	22 Dec 1726	Commerce, Jurisprudence