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Uppsala, University Library, S 172. Klas Åkesson Tott’s accounts and copybook 1547–1593
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Klas Åkesson Tott’s accounts and
copybook.
copybook.
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Finnish Literature Society (SKS)
Codices Fennici
Aikamääre
1575-1599
Saec. XVI 4/4
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Formaatti
Paper
Kieli
Swedish
Identifiointitunnus
Uppsala
University Library
S 172
University Library
S 172
Kattavuus
Sweden
Uppsala, University Library, S 172. Klas Åkesson Tott’s accounts and copybook
1547–1593
Saec. XVI4/4
,
Sweden
(Finland
?)Klas Åkesson Tott
’s accounts and
copybook
.Register wpå the Breff såm wdij thene Book äre wtt Cåpiede
.
Kånung Göstaffs frelses bref – 15 ... om syn deel i humbelkyll –
156.Fols. –: copybook containing charters from
saec. XV up to 1576
, although later ones have
been added by another hand and reach the year 1591
. Fols. 3–25 have
been made more easily searchable by marking them with letters A–Y on fore-edge tabs
cropped on the outer margins.(Fols. – (G) are blank. On fol.
only a short note. Followed by blank leaves until fol.
(M).) (Letters starting with one from
Johan III
, 20 July
1573
.) ... ... (Eric Bertilsson till
Balkis
’s court ruling, 10 February 1576
)
... datum åår och dagh som för:tt
står.Fols. –: Copies of letters on the subject of
Klas Åkesson Tott
’s estates and their history,
mostly from 1540s to 1570s
, but some are older
(one document dated is to 1400
, but this seems to be an error and the
document likely stems from mid-15
). Other hands have added documents from the late th
century1570s and 1580s
, but also documents from 1560s
. The latest document, by yet another hand, is
from 1596
.Register på thesse effter:
Konung Gustaffz breff på någre ...
... Claus Claussons till humlebeng brylichmesse – 17 b
(– are blank)
ne
Copier
aff her Claus åchessons Jordebreffe. Vtcopier aff her Claes Åchessons Jordebreff etc.
(King
Gustav Vasa
’s letter from 12 March 1560
) Konung Göstaffz bytesbreff ... (letters on fols.
– have been crossed out) ...
... (letter from Henrik Olsson
’s
relatives) Sumleby then 27 Maij anno etc. 80. (Other copied
letters, starting with one received from Jören Klasson
, 10 October 1579
) Jagh Jören Classon till Biby ...
... (Sten Baner
's letter) Stockholm 22
septembris Åhr etc. 1596.(Fols. 214–233 are blank.)
Fols. –,
–: Accounts for
Klas
Åkesson Tott
’s goods in Sweden
, 1593
.
Followed by accounts of his widow, Kerstin
Henriksdotter
.Årlige Rentan opå min herres her Claes Åchessons Jorde godz I
Swerige pro anno etc. 1593
. Östergötland ... ...
fodernötth 1 styck ( contains an additional note on a few goods). (Followed by
two blank leaves.)Paper
2 + 295 folios.
19,5cm × 30cm
19,5cm × 30cm
The copybook features a contemporary(?) foliation in ink (fols. 1–164),
which has been continued to the end of the book during digitization of the volume.
Foliation skips number 111; between fols. 121 and 136 the foliation has been
changed on several leaves. Another foliation (1–19) covers a part of the second
set of letters (fols. 189–207); this foliation was erased as the new foliation was
added. Between and after these two sets of foliation, there were unnumbered leaves
with and without text. The accounts were initially left without
foliation.
The manuscript is difficult to collate accurately, but the quire sizes
seem to vary from a
quinio
to an octavo
.At the beginning, one modern and one original flyleaf. Fol. 60 has
been cropped. A stub after fol. 122, but no text seems to be missing.
The manuscript is clearly divided into three different sections (or parts). The
first two contain copies of letters and had their own internal foliation. The
third holds accounts and lacked foliation altogether. There are plenty of empty
leaves left after each section, for the entering of further material as
required. This, together with the similarities in paper (the same watermark is
seen throughout the manuscript) and ruling, suggests that the manuscript was
planned in this way from the outset.
The manuscript is in good condition;
there are a few missing leaves and some dirt and water damage
visible.
One column with
c
. 24–29 lines of text.
In the right margin of each page there are two pencil-drawn bounding lines, which
play a limited role in controlling the writing.One main hand writing a cursive of
saec.
XVI
is responsible for much of the writing in the first section. His script
is of varying quality. Fols. –,
– are by another hand; fol.
–v by a third; fols. – by a
fourth; others write on fols. –.Second copybook section by another hand (the hand of the first section writes the
first page of the register here, and letters on fols.
–). From fol. onwards
two or more hands add letters.
The accounts section is by two different hands, one for each account book.
Simple pen-drawn intials at the beginning of the charters. Apart from this, no
decoration.
A limp binding of dark brown leather, the back cover extended to a flap which is
folded over the front cover. Blind-tooling featuring evangelists, of a type very
similar to the ones used by
Michel Han
, but lacking his animal
symbols. Also included are foliate patterns similar to those used by Hans
Düsterbach
from the 1570s to
1590
(see Hedberg 1949, 36–40
). The cover is closed with a
leather strap, with thongs sewn on to both covers using strips of alum-tawed
leather. Parts of the covers have been damaged and conserved using light brown
leather. Modern paper pastedowns. Three sewing stations are visible. On the spine,
two paper labels giving the shelf-mark and title of the manuscript.The manuscript contains copies of documents relating to
Klas Åkesson Tott
(c
. 1530–1590) and his goods. Klas Åkesson served in
various offices in Finland
from the 1550s. The manuscript was written over a longer
period of time, contains different sections and several contributing
scribes.The copybook was planned for expansion and there is a large number of
blank leaves for this purpose. There are two different sections for counterparts and
one for accounts. Both copybook sections feature different main hands (but the main
hand of the first contributed also to the second). The documents written by them
usually only extend to the
1570s
so this is a likely tempus post
quem non
for the creation of the manuscript. Other hands have since updated the
book with documents to the 1590s
. This, together with accounts for her properties,
suggests the copybook was passed to Klas Åkesson’s widow, Kerstin Henriksdotter
Horn
, who resided in Sjundby
.The manuscript later belonged to the
Olaus d.y.
Celsius
(1716–1794) collection (inner front cover: ‘Celsk. saml. 29), which came to Uppsala University Library
in
1795
.Modern shelf-mark ‘S 172’ visible on the spine and inner front cover; Uppsala
University Library’s stamp on the verso side of the last leaf.
Cataloguer
Ville Walta
Finnish Literature Society (SKS)
Codices Fennici
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