1442.05.11.

11 May, 1442.
Johannes Geminger, officialis curie Basiliensis, declares that he has made an official German translation of some Latin statutes of the Order for Fr. Bertold Stehelin, head of the preceptory of Neuenburg, and Fr. Heinrich Scaler [?], proxy of the house at Villingen, both in the diocese of Konstanz.⁽¹⁾ - GLA Karlsruhe, 20/115. Official charter on parchment with wax seal in wooden casing on hemp string: GLA Karlsruhe, 20/115. Legend of the seal: SIGILVM CVRIE BASILIENSIS. - J. M. van Winter, Sources concerning the Hospitallers of St. John in the Netherlands, 1998, Bulls and Letters, n. 41.

[The translated statutes contain the following sentences:]

Post vero magister seu baylivi aut quisquam frater hospitalis nichil debent penitus mutuare nec pro aliquo ullam causam assumere nec hereditates neque possessiones domus hospitalis alienare sine consilio capituli generalis.⁽²⁾

Secundum fuit statutum olim quod si aliquis frater ullam empcionem seu aquestum faciat illudque sic emit seu acquisivit per magistrum et conventum est sibi ad vitam recommendatum; si vero nonnullus frater quitquam emat seu acquirat illud ipse frater non valeat rendere nec impignerare neque alienare sine magistri et conventus licencia speciali.⁽³⁾

(1) This item has been inserted here because frater Bertold Stehelin later became head of the preceptories of Arnhem and Nimwegen; cf. Hospitaller1462.05.29.
(2) Margat 1204-1206, Statuts promulgus par le chapitre général de l'ordre sous le magistre d'Alphonse de Portugal, ed. Delaville, Cartulaire, II nr. 1193, p. 38.
(3) Limisso, 1295, September 12, Statuts promulgus par le chapitre général sous le magistre d'Eudes des Pins, Cartulaire, III nr. 4295 sub 2, p. 674, French and Latin texts. - The Latin text from NLM Arch. [69?] is dated 1295, December 12. It is slightly different from the above text and runs as follows in the Cartulaire: Secundum quod fuit statutum olim, si aliquis frater ullam empcionem seu aquestum faciat, illud, quod sic emit vel acquisivit per magistrum et conventum, est sibi ad vitam recommendatum. Si vero nonnullus frater quidquid emat seu acquirat, illud ipse frater non valeat vendere, nec impignorare, neque alienare, sine magistri et conventus licentia speciali; et si emptio seu acquestus sint franci et liberi, quod frater emptor seu acquisitor illam vel illum nulli domino recognoscere valeat, sine magistri et conventus licentia speciali.

first adaptation 30.07.2022 Jürgen Sarnowsky / revised 30.07.2022 /
status: proofread /
for any comments: send me an e-mail Juergen.Sarnowsky@uni-hamburg.de (Jürgen Sarnowsky)

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