Turku, Provincial Archives of Turku, Rauma Magistrate’s Archive, Gb:1 + HD:1, the private accounts of the city (1577–1699), fols. 1–140. Taxbook of the city of Rauma 1577–1603 Cataloguer Jesse Keskiaho Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Codices Fennici Creative Commons BY 4.0 Turku Provincial Archives of Turku Rauma Magistrate’s Archive Gb:1 + HD:1 1577–1603, Rauma Taxbook of the city of Rauma, 1577-1603

Fols. 1r–140v, tax registers of the city of Rauma for the years 1577–1590, 1573, 1592–1595, 1597–1599, 1601–1603 (imperf., disordered).

[1r] Skott Register Aff Raum[o] Stadh Pro Anno 1577 ... [4r] Skatt Register Aff Raumo Stadh anno 1578 ... [fol. 11r] Raumo Skatt Register Pro anno 1579 ... [14r] Skott Register aff Raumo Stadh Pro Anno 1580 ... [24r] Skatt Register aff Raumo Stadh Anno etc 1581 ... [39r] Skott Register aff Raumo Stadh Pro Anno etc 1582 ... [45r] Anno 1583 ... [56v] Skott Register aff Raumo Stadh Pro Anno 1584 ... [60r] Skatt Register aff Raumo Stadh Pro Anno 1585 ... [62r] Skatt Register aff Raumo Stadh Pro Anno 86 ... [64r] Skatt Register aff Raumo Stadh Pro Anno 1587 ... [67r] Skatt Register aff Raumo Stadh Pro Anno etc 1588 ... [76r] Skatt Register Aff Raumo Stadh Pro Anno etc 1590 ... [82r] Opborden På Pur Aff Raumo Stadh till Åhr - 73 ... [83r] Skatt Register Aff Raumo Stadh Pro Anno etc 1592 ... [89r] Skatt Register aff Raumo Stadh Pro Anno etc 1593 ... [92r] Skatt Register Aff Raumå Stadh Prå Anno 94 ... [95r] Skatt Register aff Raumo Stadh Pro Anno etc 1595 ... [100r] Skatt Register aff Raumo Stadh Pro Anno etc 1597 ... [104v] Skatt Register aff Raumo Stadh Pro Anno etc 1598 ... [107r] Skatt Register Aff Raumo Stadh Pro Anno 1599 ... [122r] Skatt Register aff Raumo Stadh Pro Anno 1601 ... [127r] Skott Register Aff Raumo Stadh för Anno etc 1602 ... [133r] Skott Register Aff Raumo Stadh för Anno etc 1603 ...

An envelope contains the fragments of four folia with records from 1580.

 Paper 142 + 4 folios. 10,5 33 Written area varies greatly. Modern pagination in pencil on the recto-sides (another hand numbered some of the quires, in an order that does not correspond to their present arrangement). III(II7 + (II–1)10)1–3, 11–13 + II17 + 219 + II23 + (II – 1)26 + 4II42 +I44 + IV52 + 1 + I55 + 2II63 + I64 + 2III77 + (III – 2)82 + II86 + I88 + I(I91 + I(I94 + II98)99 + I(III106 + II110 + III116 + 1)118)119 + (III–1)124 + I126 + (II – 1)128 + 2I132 + (II + 1)137 + 3 + I[142] i.e. fols. 1–3 and 11–13 form a trinio that encloses fols. 4–10; fols. 89 and 119 a bifolium that encloses fols. 90–118; fols. 92 and 99 a bifolium that encloses fols. 93–98; and fols. 100 and 118 a bifolium enclosing 106–118. XXXXX

Loose quires, the original order of which is somewhat uncertain (see e.g. the break in the chronological series at fol. 82r). It may be that the register was initially kept as separate quires, which were only bound together at a later date. Individual folia depart from the general format of the leaves, and folia are at times trimmed.

The present archival unit contains more material, but the 140 folia described here appear to form an original codicological unit, with dimensions that are distinct from the rest of the book but which correspond to the dimensions of the parchment leaf used as their cover (Turku, The Provincial Archives of Turku, The Rauma Magistrate’s Archives, HD:1). There is also an unfoliated bifolium [fols. 141–142] and similarly unfoliated fragments of four folia (in very poor condition). The four leaves seem to belong to the original book, while the bifolium appears to be somewhat later and may derive from elsewhere.

One column with a varying number of lines; not ruled.

Varieties of Gothic cursive in several hands.

Not decorated.

Currently not bound, and variously coming apart. Has been bound in a parchment leaf now conserved as Turku, Provincial Archives of Turku, The Rauma Magistrate’s Archives, HD:1. The fragment comes from a Dominican gradual, and is written in Gothic textualis of saec. XIV (possibly from France?) (1 folio, parchment, 22,5 × 37 (19,5 × 26). Text and notation in one column on ten lines).

The contents are as follow: [recto] [ma]nus enim mea auxiliabitur …confortabit eum. offertorium. … tue … tempore resurrectionis. [allelu]ia. offertorium. Desidera--- … in capite …. tempore resurrectionis … commune … constituet eum [verso] commune D--- …audisti michi ecce a … euge serue fidelis qui … commune. Fide … testes in celo.

A saec. XVI hand has added in the lower margin of the recto-side, at a right angle to the original text, verses from the hymn Caeperit faustis auibus.

‘---meliore fato hic nouus sudor … aspice Jesu Hic rudis tamquam … sobolem’.

This leaf is in very poor condition as a result not only of its reuse as a cover but also because of a heavy-handed use of reagents (for a description see Lähteenoja 1931): the parchment shows staining and apparent oxidization, which would appear to have resulted from treatment with chemicals.

The tax ledger of the city of Rauma, apparently begun sometime in the 1570s.

Kept in the Rauma Magistrate’s archives, which in the twentieth century were deposited in Turku Provincial Archives.

 Aina Lähteenoja, ”Repaleinen pergamentti”, Suomen kuvalehti (1931), 837–838. Encoding added