On 488 paper pages, this volume contains the income and expenditures of the territory of Appenzell from November 1574 to November 1582. These accounts are among the most important sources for researching the history of the yet undivided region.
Online Since: 04/25/2023
On 588 paper pages, this volume contains the income and expenditures of the territory of Appenzell from October 1582 to March 1591. These accounts are among the most important sources for researching the history of the yet undivided region.
Online Since: 04/25/2023
The first part of this volume (pp. 1-214) contains the income and expenditures of the territory of Appenzell from April 1591 to April 1597. These accounts are among the most important sources for researching the history of the region prior to its division. The second part (pp. 215-528) includes drafts of outgoing letters and copies of incoming ones from 1659 to 1687. Starting with p. 529, the pages have been torn and at most fragments remain.
Online Since: 04/25/2023
This 198-page paper volume contains chiefly declarations, that is, transcriptions of witness statements. In addition, it includes judgments, decisions of the Council and the Landsgemeinde, sureties, renunciatory oaths, registers of judges, and agendas of the councils and the Landsgemeinde.
Online Since: 05/31/2024
This volume contains decisions of the councils (“antworten”), declarations, that is, witness statements, as well as renunciatory oaths, in which delinquents promise not to take revenge against persons who took part in criminal proceedings against them. It also includes renewals of land rights held by foreign countrymen, dated from 1550 to 1604. The volume chiefly encompasses the years 1557 to 1566, with later entries up to 1621.
Online Since: 05/31/2024
The volume contains on 584 paper pages the decisions of the Appenzell Councils in concise form. It also has many renunciatory oaths, by which delinquents promise not to take revenge on persons who participated in the criminal proceedings against them, as well as a register of wool-yarn dealers (f. 256v and 281r).
Online Since: 05/31/2024
According to the introduction, this volume contains the decisions of the Councils as well as the renunciatory oaths, by which delinquents promised not to take revenge on the persons who participated in criminal proceedings against them. But it also includes a few land-rights renewals held by foreign countrymen, as well as inkeeper licenses and authorizations for boiling saltpeter and for settling.
Online Since: 05/31/2024
The volume contains on 182 paper pages chiefly law-related decisions of the various Councils, which gives the volume the character of a book of mandates. The term Antwortenbuch (“book of answers”) used in the volume title and in the introduction applies only to a small number of court judgments, notices, and administrative measures that the Councils delivered at the request of countrymen.
Online Since: 05/31/2024
The volume contains on 178 paper pages records of legal regulations valid throughout the country, which regulations were repeatedly substantiated and adopted by the Councils and were proclaimed from the church pulpits to the people of the country. The volume also includes registers of millers, inkeepers, and dairy merchants in the country.
Online Since: 05/31/2024
The band contains on 390 paper pages records of legal regulations valid throughout the land, which regulations were repeatedly substantiated and adopted by the Councils and proclaimed from the church pulpits to the people of the country.
Online Since: 05/31/2024
This volume contains Kundschaften, that is, witness statements or reports on alleged crimes. In the back part it also contains lists of the members of the jury and of the court (Gassengericht), as well as the minutes of the Landesgemeinde and the Council from 1548 to 1551.
Online Since: 12/11/2024
This volume contains Kundschaften, that is, witness statements or reports on alleged crimes. It also has on the last pages an (incomplete) list of these reports.
Online Since: 12/11/2024
This volume contains Kundschaften, that is, witness statements or reports on alleged crimes. It also has on the first pages an (incomplete) list of the accused persons.
Online Since: 12/11/2024
The volume contains the record of examinations, that is criminal investigation. But it also has Kundschaften, that is, witness statements or reports.
Online Since: 12/11/2024
The volume contains the annual list of the members of the Great and Petty Council of Appenzell, classified according to rhoden. The names were entered into narrow gatherings that were only later bound into a book. The binding consists of a re-used fragment with musical notation.
Online Since: 05/31/2024
The volume contains in its main section on parchment (pp. 47-108) the statutes of the country of Appenzell, whose origins go back to the beginning of the fifteenth century. The volume also has a calendar on paper (pp. 5-19) as well as additions to the statutes, also on paper (pp. 111ff. and p. 124). The first 24 pages of the statutes are written in a single hand, with additions, marginal notes, and titles written in other hands; thereafter, further entries in different ink and in a denser script come from the 1530s and 40s. The initials are calligraphically decorated, sometimes adorned with braided lace, flowers, and faces that often end in corncob-shaped forms.
Online Since: 05/31/2024
This volume contains a register of mortgage titles (Zeddel), organized according to Rhoden. It is not clear when the register was produced and until when it was maintained. The dating corresponds to the period of production of the mortgage titles that are indicated.
Online Since: 12/11/2024
On 123 paper pages, this codex contains copies of seven chronicles on the Reformation in the region of Appenzell as well as on the division of the canton in the 16th century. The codex was compiled around 1700 by an unknown scribe.
Online Since: 06/22/2017
On 86 leaves of parchment, the Silver Book of the Land contains the statutes of the entire region of Appenzell. It is an assemblage of older legal texts; at a later time more recent statutes were added to it. Following the division of the region of Appenzell that took place in 1597, the book became the property of the Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden and remained valid into the 19th century. Rich decorations consisting of miniatures and initials indicate the great importance attributed to this volume.
Online Since: 12/17/2015
This missal is the oldest surviving document in the Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden; it is owned by the parish St. Mauritius in Appenzell. It was probably created for a church in the Diocese of Constance, its exact origins, however, are unknown. The missal is also important to the history of the region of Appenzell because it contains the only surviving copy of the deed of foundation of the parish of Appenzell from the year 1071. The volume contains separate parts (calendar, gradual, sequentiary, sacramentary, lectionary). The calendar is particularly rich in saints' days, although none is rubricated as a patron saint's day.
Online Since: 12/17/2015