Helsinki, National Archives, 216a. Court records for Ala-Satakunta, 1550–1552

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Kuvaus

Court records for Ala-Satakunta, 1550–1552

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Finnish Literature Society (SKS)

Codices Fennici

Aikamääre

1550-1552

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Helsinki
National Archives
216a

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Ala-Satakunta

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Helsinki, National Archives, 216a. Court records for Ala-Satakunta, 1550–1552

1550–1552

Ala-Satakunta

Court records

for

Ala-Satakunta

1550–1552

Records of the summer and autumn sessions for

1550

, and the winter, spring, summer, and autumn sessions for

1551

and

1552

of the lower courts (

häradsrätt

) of

Ala-Satakunta

, as well as the second-tier court (

lagmansrätt

) sessions in

1551

and

1552

Eura

Eurajoki

Huittinen

Kokemäki

Loimaa

Närpiö

Ulvila

and

Köyliö

, held under president of the court,

Knut Eriksson Kurck

.The manuscript is bound together with an account of the fines paid in Ylä-Satakunta in 1551 (

216b

First flyleaf, recto

Dombook

Fols.

–

31v

1550

sessions (followed by one unnumbered blank), edited in

Roos 1964, 3–44

[1r]

Anno domini 1550. Om Sancte Marie Magdalene affton. Thå halt jach Jöns Wästgöte Somar Tingit ...

[31v]

... efter xii men ranzacan d:t 2 öre. (After fol. 31 a blank unnumbered leaf.)

Fols.

32r

–

110v

1551

sessions. Edited in

Roos 1964, 45–149

[32r]

Anno domini 1551, torsdaghen nest epter Helge Tree Konunge dagh, tho hultt jagh Lasse Madtzson winter tinget ...

[110r]

... Summa peninger 10 marck.

Fols.

64v

–

65r

and

110v

are blank. After fol. 58 there is a blank, unnumbered leaf.

Fols.

111r

–

178v

1552

sessions. Edited in

Roos 1964, 150–240

[111r]

Anno domini 1552, then 4 daghen nouembrij [pro januarij], hultt iagh Lasse Madtzson ...

[178v]

... Sumarum effther host tingtth peninger 78½ marc. (Fol. 179 is an added slip with accounts concerning the

1553

sessions.)

Fols.

128v

and

180r

are blank.

Fol.

180v

: A note concerning borders in

Sastamala

: ‘Tesse är Råår Emellan Pomarck och Selckis j Sastamala sockn’.

Paper

183 folios
20cm × 28,5cm

Two different foliations. The first, original(?), foliation (1–178), in ink in the upper margin, begins with the actual text, (a later hand foliated the slip that is fol. 179 and fol. 180). The second foliation, done with a stamp or typewriter in the lower margin, takes the title-leaf into account and continues throughout the manuscript (including the other item,

216b

, bound within the same covers). In this description, we have preferred to follow the first foliation.

Inserted slips after fols. 94, 100, 178 (numbered). The first flyleaf has been left unnumbered; there is a blank unnumbered folium after fols. 31 and 58.

A extremely tight modern binding, causing some loss of text in the gutter. The collation is, however, recoverable in the digitization based on microfilms that predate the rebinding (the microfilm is available at the National Archives). This shows that the manuscript had quires of varying sizes (from III to XI).

In places damaged by fire. The first flyleaf is particularly blackened by smoke damage.

Number of lines varies, no ruling.

At least four scribes, probably secretaries of the court, writing

sixteenth-century

cursives (I: fols.

–

31v

, with the exception of

–

; II:

–

; III:

–

; IV:

–

). Scribe IV is possibly

Lasse Mattsson (Matinpoika)

who presided over the lower court from

1550

Ingresses written in a more carefully executed script. Brackets drawn next to the lists of jurors, occasionally decorated. Apart from this, no decoration.

Modern binding in blue cardboard. The original parchment cover, with the title ‘Thetta Domboken J Nedhre häredhe j Kwmogardz län etc. för åren 1550–1552’, was removed in the

nineteenth century

. Now bound together with an account of the fines paid in Ylä-Satakunta in 1551 (

216b

The records were probably compiled relatively soon after the court sessions. They seem to represent a fair copy of the record, although certain additions and corrections are made (often by scribe I). The corrections by one hand, along with the foliation, which may be near contemporary with the texts, suggests that these session records were kept, and possibly bound, together from early on.

After having been compiled as a record of court sessions by the municipal judge’s office, the book was probably sent to

Stockholm

soon after the closing of the court season in

1552

. Fol. 1: ‘Dombok 1550, no. 27’, a mark of

saec. XVI

made in the

Chamber College

Stockholm

The book belonged to the shipment of documents taken to the

Senate archives

Turku

in accordance with the

Hamina

accords between

Sweden

and

Russia

1809

. The archives were moved to

Helsinki

1819

, but the book was not added to the catalogues of the

National Archives

before another shipment of documents arrived in

1864

John E. Roos,

Ala-Satakunnan tuomiokirja 1550–1552

, Suomen vanhimmat tuomiokirjat vol. II, Helsinki 1964.

Cataloguer

Jesse Keskiaho

Ville Walta

Finnish Literature Society (SKS)

Codices Fennici

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