Codex picturatus Balthasaris Behem
Subtitle: facsimile.
Contributors: Behem, Baltazar, d. 1508.; Kraków (Poland)
Publisher: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Varsovia; Cracoviae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 742
Subjects: Guilds -- Poland -- Kraków.; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Facsimiles.; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Poland; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Polish.
Other titles: Ksiéga sztuk i rzemiosł.
Notes: Full color facsimile of codex dated 1505 in the Jagellonian Library, Kraków (ms. no. 16), named after its chief copyist, Baltazar Behem.
Text in Latin, German, or Polish; captions for some ill. in Polish.
Title and imprint from label on verso of lower free endpaper.
In a later hand on recto of second leaf: Ksiéga sztuk i rzemiosł. Z przemowa Baltazara Bema, pisarza miejskiego. 1505.
"Edita sunt MD exemplaria singula numero manu adscripto signata."
Contains copies of Kraków municipal guild charters and privileges, forms of oaths for officials and members, and municipal statutes affecting guilds and workers; 25 miniatures depict shops and workers or guild heraldic devices.
Includes index.
LC has copy no. 566.
Source: Purchase, Jul. 20, 1992.