FERDINAND I Official publication in German, issued Innsbruck 24 March 1542. 1542 broadside, c. 30 x 41,5 cm, printed in gothic type, wax seal (def.) with paper cover, countersigned by i.a. the bishop of Brixen (Bressanone). Very good copy (sm. hole...
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Description
on old folds with loss of a few letters).
Extr. rare ed. of a decree requesting judges and magistrates to spend no longer large sums from public funds on meals and drinks, as these funds were reserved for the benefit of widows and orphans. Ferdinand (1503-1564) ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the Habsburgs in the name of his elder brother Charles V, whom he succeded in 1558 as Holy Roman Emperor.
Extr. rare ed. of a decree requesting judges and magistrates to spend no longer large sums from public funds on meals and drinks, as these funds were reserved for the benefit of widows and orphans. Ferdinand (1503-1564) ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the Habsburgs in the name of his elder brother Charles V, whom he succeded in 1558 as Holy Roman Emperor.
