Balthasar Behem Codex

The Balthasar- Behem Code (Polish codecs Baltazara Behema ) or Codex picturatus is a 1505 from Kraków city clerk Balthasar Behem in German with Gothic letters written manuscript that the privileges and statutes of Krakow (Jura Municipalia - Wylkör the city arbitrariness, municipal law ) and the Cracow guilds and guilds documented.

The work, which is estimated as sources for the daily life of artisans and is kept in the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow, also contains Latin texts and especially challenging 27 color illustrations. The page about 246 BC shows the baker with the headline: Pistores - This is the briff and gesetcze the Becker czu Krokaw.

Probably due to death of the author is to be found in the Code on pages 276-300 no text, but some illustrations, some of Erzgiessern.

Literature / reprints

• Balthasaris Behem Codex picturatus anno 1505, continens privilegia et plebiscita urbis Cracoviae. In: Archives for customer Austrian history sources 33 1865 ( Review by Ulrich Heyzmann ).
• Bruno Bucher ( ed. ): The old guild and traffic regulations of the city of Krakow. After Balthasar Behem 's Codex picturatus in KK Jagiellonian Library. Festschrift for the anniversary of K. K. Austrian Museum for Art and Industry. Gerold, Vienna 1889.
• Friedrich Winkler ( ed.): The Cracow Behaim Codex. With a legal-historical study of Johann Werner Niemann. German Association for Art Research, Berlin 1941 ( with facsimile reproductions from the Behaim Codex ).
• Codex picturatus Balthasaris Behem. Facsimile of handwriting 1505. Krajowa Agencja Wydawn, Varsoviae 1988.