Wolfenbütteler Sachsenspiegel. - Vollständige Faksimile - Ausgabe im Originalformat der Handschrift der Herzog - August - Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. - Mit Textband und Kommentarband. - 3 Bände insgesamt. - Volumen CXI der Reihe Codices selecti.

Limited edition: 580 copies numbered by hand. Approximately 350 x 270 mm, 86 sheets, text in German medium (= high German) language, 776 picture strips with colored pen drawings and rich use of gold. Binding: 16th century, wood cover with dark brown leather, decorated with Roll or temples, remains of two clasps.. Complete color facsimile edition of 172 pages in the original format; to the smallest detail color reproduction. All leaves are trimmed in accordance with the original. Binding: leather with two clasps (copy of the original binding) is an extensive comment mitgeliefert.Mit easy storage. No other book has the history of German law so marked as the Sachsenspiegel. Posted by Eike of Repgow Between 1224 and 1235, the work should be according to the will of the author until then only orally transmitted customary law "reflect", d. h. describe, to secure it in its continued existence. The large geographical presence and especially the enormous temporal effects - after all, kept this piece of legislation through seven centuries of its validity - to prove that the intention of the author was impressively fulfilled. Among the 460 manuscripts and fragments of this work are four particularly valuable specimens, in which the text is accompanied throughout by illustrations. These codices picturati are of immense cultural and historical Bedeutung.Die Wolfenbütteler illuminated manuscript of the Sachsenspiegel is considered a high point in this development. At the extraordinary quality of the drawing and the completeness of the text it is close to the Dresden Codex, has over this but the color intensity of the coloration and the brilliance of gold preserved intact. Both in terms of content, as well as a visual perspective is offered to the viewer on either side of an unusually colorful panorama of medieval culture in its many facets. After long since out of print Oldenburg Sachsenspiegel (Cod. Selecti CI)