Stockholm, National Archives, E 1988 (1), Bielkesamlingen, 02 Adliga ätten Bielke, Nils Pedersson Bielkes maka Anna Hogenskild (†1591), Vol. 4: Godshandlingar 1551–1552. Tenant register concerning Nynäs, Vik, and Lahis estates Cataloguer Seppo Eskola Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Codices Fennici Creative Commons BY 4.0 Stockholm National Archives E 1988 Bielkesamlingen, 02 Adliga ätten Bielke, Nils Pedersson Bielkes maka Anna Hogenskild (†1591), Vol. 4: Godshandlingar 1551–1552 Unit 1 1551–1553, presumably Nynäs A tenant register

A tenant register concerning Nynäs, Vik, Kyllelä, and Lahis estates in 1551–1553.

Content by folio:

Fols. 1r–45v: year 1551 (fols. 46r–47v are blank).

Fols. 48r–90v: year 1552 (fols. 62r–v, 77v–78r, and 91r–92r are blank).

Fols. 92v–135v: year 1553 (fols. 106v, 122r, 136r–137v are blank).

The sections for each year are divided into subsections for the respective estates with short summaries at the end of the sections.

There are two loose folded paper slips between folios 83 and 84: a receipt by Mats Olsson with two seals and a loose folded folio describing expected revenues from 1550. The folios are numbered 83a and 83b–c in pencil.

 Paper 137 folios + two loose paper slips 15 19-20,5 15 × 19 (fols. 1–97) and 15 × 20,5 (fols. 98–137). Text area varies. Foliation in pencil on the upper right-hand corner. The numbering jumps from 104 to 106, thus mistakenly running up to 138 instead of 137. 2VI24 + (VI-1)35 + 4VI83 + VII97 + 2X137 Ten quires. The first folio of the third quire has been cut out. Two loose paper slips kept between folios 83 and 84. In good condition. Text in a single column, not ruled.

A single cameral hand typical of mid-16th-century Sweden. Brown ink.

No decoration.

A limp binding of medieval parchment, to which all quires are sewn. The parchment (c. 23 x 33* (17–17,5 x 28), two columns, 23 lines of text (46 lines on the legend)), includes the remnants of a 15th-cent. <hi rend="italic">hymnarium</hi> with St Siegfried’s legend added by another hand. According to Moberg (1947, 103) the fragment is of Dominican origin (see Stockholm, National Archives, Fr 10945). Other fragments from the same volume survive (Stockholm, National Archives, Fr 25533; 25534; 25535).

A diligent cameral record of tenants in the Finnish estates owned by Anna Hogenskild (Nynäs, Vik, Kyllelä, and Lahis,). Blank folios between sections and clear headlines give an impression of meticulousness. Part of a large group of records from the mid-16th century pertaining to these estates.

This tenant register is an example of financial records being rewritten or copied several times. Compare, for example, the section on 1553 to three other tenant register from 1553, all concerning the same estates (Stockholm, National Archives, Adliga ätten Bielke, Vol. 4, record ii (specifically quires 5–8), and Vol. 5, records i and ii).

The financial records of Nynäs and related estates came to the Swedish Crown, and later the Swedish National Archives, when the possessions and archives of Hogenskild Bielke were confiscated following his execution in 1605 (see Introduction to these descriptions).

 Carl-Allan Moberg, Die liturgischen Hymnen in Schweden: Beiträge zur Liturgie- und Musikgeschichte des Mittelalters und Reformationszeit. Band 1, Quellen und Texte: Text- und Melodieregister, Uppsala 1947. Encoding added