De coustuÿmen van Duc d'Alba
By: vergaadert bÿ schout, burgerm[eeste]rs & regeerders der stad Utrecht. [Annotationes in statuta Ultrajectina].
Contributors: Rodenburg, Christian, 1618-1668.; Utrecht (Netherlands).
Published: 1649
Language: dut
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Customary law -- Netherlands -- Utrecht (Province); Manuscripts, Dutch.; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Netherlands.
Other titles: Annotationes in statuta Ultraiectina. 1649.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references in both items.
Ms. (partly C. Rodenburg's holograph?)
In variously intermixed Dutch and Latin.
The Coustuÿmen van Duc d'Alba, compiled by the Duke's order in 1570, were never homologated (cf. J. Gilissen in Tijdschrift voor rechtsgeschiedenis, 18 [1950]: 255-268). Text begins (after caption): 1. Principium cujuslibet annij et finis. Inden eersten dat nae tschrÿven & stÿl des lants van Vtrecht het jaer altÿt begint & afgaet op Kersavont ten 12 uÿren. The copy has added notes in Latin (by C. Rodenburg?).
Following the Coustuÿmen, an extract from a  May 10, 1649 document appointing Christian Rodenburg to the Council of the Province of Utrecht.
The second major item, Annotationes in statuta Ultrajectina (p. 81-[240]) annotates, without including their texts, the "rubrÿcken" 1 and 19-25 of the (homologated) 1550 collection Costumen, usantien, politien ende stijl van procederen (der stadt, jurisdictie ende vrijheid van Utrecht). Text of the Annotationes begins: In praefationem. Initio hic quȩrendum anne praeter statuta Consuetudines induci possint? Et videtur ... (An unfinished commentary by C. Rodenburg?)
Acquired by LC in 1984 from A. Gerits & Son (LL 151968).
Written probably in the Netherlands.
Pagination in modern pencil, on odd pages only, begins after 4 preliminary blank pages; many other pages or leaves are blank, especially in the Annotationes, and all after p. [240] (gatherings uncut through end).  Some leaves may have been lost, with their contents.
Paper is identical through p. [240] (watermark fool's cap with three balls and inscription EPINAVD); the uncut gatherings which follow appear to be of later origin.