Metadata: Collections, Collections of Transcripts - AS 53 Collection of Miscellanea (Originals), Copies of Files and Documents
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Luzern
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Luzern
- Postal address:
- Schützenstrasse 9, CH-6000 Luzern
- Phone number:
- +41 41 228 53 65
- Web address:
- https://staatsarchiv.lu.ch/
- Email:
- staatsarchiv@lu.ch
- Reference number:
- AS
- Title:
- Collections, Collections of Transcripts - AS 53 Collection of Miscellanea (Originals), Copies of Files and Documents
- Title (official language):
- Sammlungen, Abschriftensammlungen – AS 53 Variasammlung (Originale), Akten- und Urkundenabschriften
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of Basel
- Date(s):
- 1347/1350
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 1 shelf metre
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The Collection contains the sub-division Collections of Transcripts, which in turn contains another sub-division, Collection of Miscellanea. It includes documents written between 1347 and 1350, e.g. an excerpt from a letter from the Council of Basel to the Council of the City of Strassburg concerning a trial against the Jews for poisoning wells, especially concerning the statements about their activities in Lucerne. The original can be found in the Strassburg Book of Deeds V 196/197. PpMsc. (04.07.1349). [AS 53/102]
- Archival history:
- Most of the documents of this collection were probably in the State Archive when it was founded.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The oldest documents of the State Archive date back to the 9th century, in transcripts from around 1150. The holdings of the archive can be divided into four groups: the administrative records of the city of Lucerne from the 13th to the 18th century, the documents of the cantonal administration and courts since 1798, the archives of the monasteries dissolved in the 19th century and the archives of private persons and institutions such as associations, political parties and industrial or commercial enterprises.
- Access points: locations:
- Basel
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available, although the information is often rudimentary.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://query-staatsarchiv.lu.ch/volltextsuche.aspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020
