[Enfeoffment register. Overijssel] Manuscript register for feudal lords and vassals

Manuscript in Dutch in various hands, ca. 1565 to late 18th cent., 5 parts on 45 vellum lvs., (68) pages of written text, otherwise blank, modern panelled calf in antique style, 22 x 15 cm.

Exciting and important manuscript, opening on the first page with "De Eedt der Leenmannen" in fine gothic script, followed by an index in similar fine script: (1) "Int eerste den thienden groff ende small gelegen inden kerspel van Raelte oeüer dat güet ten Nyenhuys te boetele geheeten Brinckinck." (14 p.). (2) "In den thienden groff ende small oeüer dat güet Arnoldichem geheten gelegen inder Büerschap van Heten inder kerspel van Raelte." (13 p.). (3) "In den thienden groff ende small toe Krickinck inde kerspel van Raelte inder büerschap toe Heten offt tot Boetele." (14 p.). (4) "In den thienden op Kampervene die Arent Reüeken placht toe te behoren." (14 p.). (5) "In dat güet ten Nyenhuys gelegen inden kerspel va[n] Zwolle inder büerschap van wytman, ende gaet te lene van myn Joncker van Bronckhorst ten Zutphenschen rechten." (3 p.). On the page following the index, is again a finely calligraphed (shorter) version of "Den Eedt der Leenmannen". All five parts start with mentioning specific days of the year 1464, for instance "Itrem inden Jaire on Heren 1464 des maendages nae sancte Marien magdalena dach (...)", followed by the persons to whom the loans were granted. The loans were renewed at various later dates, in exactly the same hand up to 1562 for the first loan and sl. earlier dates for the other loans, suggesting that the earlier parts of our manuscript were written/ copied from an earlier source around 1565. These manuscript pages in the same hand are followed by pages in various hands on which the loans are renewed (each time following the deaths of a feudal lord), starting with the years 1575, 1572, 1574, 1573 and 1569, and then on later occasions in the 17th and 18th centuries, each time w. the names of the feudal lords mentioned. A returning name in the contributions of around 1640 is Jurrien van Middachten.