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‘OF LAWS OF SHIPS
AND SHIPMEN’
Medieval Maritime Law
and its Practice in
Urban Northern Europe
EDDA FRANKOT
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Contents
Tables and Maps vi
Abbreviations vii
Acknowledgements xi
Preface xiii
Introduction 1
1 A History of Maritime Law in Northern Europe 6
2 Shipwreck, Jettison and Ship Collision in Maritime Law 27
3 The Five Towns Introduced 53
4 Written Law: Urban Collections of Sea Law 81
5 Written Law: Local Developments in Lawmaking 110
6 Legal Practice: the Administration of Maritime Justice 144
7 Legal Practice: Maritime Proceedings at the Urban Courts 166
Final Conclusions 199
Bibliography 202
Index 216
Tables and Maps
Tables
1.1 The articles in selected manuscripts of the Ordinancie 16
4.1 The Scottish translations of the Rôles d’Oléron 83
4.2 Maritime regulations in the different manuscripts of the
Lübeck Town Law 94
5.1 The articles of the Hamburg, Lübeck and Riga Sea Laws
compared 130
Maps
I.1 The North Sea and Baltic area 4
3.1 The Kingdom of Scotland 55
3.2 The Netherlands around 1300 59
3.3 Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein 63
3.4 Medieval Livonia (Alt-Livland) 67
3.5 The Prussian State 71
Abbreviations
General
ACA Aberdeen City Archive
ACR Aberdeen Council Register
Adv. Libr. Advocates Library (Edinburgh, now part of the collec-
tion of the NLS)
AHL Archiv der Hansestadt Lübeck
APG Archiwum Pan´stwowe Gdan´sku
APS The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, eds T. Thomson
and C. Innes, 12 volumes (Edinburgh 1814–75)
ASA Altes Senatsarchiv (Lübeck)
BRW Bijdragen tot Regtsgeleerdheid en Wetgeving
Cod. Ord. Lub. Codex ordaliorum Lubecensium
Cod. Ord. Rev. Codex ordaliorum Revaliensis
GAK Gemeentearchief Kampen
HGbll Hansische Geschichtsblätter
HR 1 Hanserecesse 1256–1430 (Leipzig 1870–97)
HR 2 Hanserecesse 1431–1476, ed. Goswin Freiherr von der
Ropp (Leipzig 1876–90)
HR 3 Hanserecesse 1477–1530, eds Dietrich Schäfer and
Friedrich Techen (Leipzig and Munich 1881–1913)
HUB Hansisches Urkundenbuch, eds Konstantin Hohlbaum et
al., 11 volumes (Halle etc. 1876–1939)
KB Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Bibliothèque Royale) Brussels
LECUB Liv-, Esth- und Curländisches Urkundenbuch, ed. Friedrich
Georg von Bunge, 15 volumes (Reval 1853–1914)
LQB Leges Quatuor Burgorum (Scotland); APS, i, 333–56
LRU Lübecker Ratsurteile, ed. Wilhelm Ebel, 4 volumes
(Göttingen 1955–67)
LUB Lübeckisches Urkundenbuch, 11 volumes (Lübeck
1843–1905)
NK Wouter Nijhoff and M. E. Kronenberg, Nederlandsche
bibliographie van 1500 tot 1540 (The Hague 1923–71)
NLS National Library of Scotland
NStB Niederstadtbuch (Lübeck)
OA Oud Archief (Kampen)
RA Rechterlijk Archief (Kampen)
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RGP Rijksgeschiedkundige Publicatiën
RGP 35 Bronnen tot de geschiedenis van den Oostzeehandel, vol. I,
1122–1499 eerste stuk, ed. H. A. Poelman (The Hague
1917)
RGP 70 Bronnen tot de geschiedenis van den handel met Frankrijk,
Eerste deel 752–1585, eds Z. W. Sneller and W. S. Unger
(The Hague 1930)
RPS The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland, eds K. M. Brown
et al. (St Andrews 2007–9)
SHR Scottish Historical Review
TLA Tallinna Linnaarhiiv
TM Tallinna Magistraat
ZRG GA Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte,
Germanistische Abteilung
ZVLGA Zeitschrift des Vereins für Lübeckische Geschichte und
Altertumskunde
Sea laws
Bergen Bergen Town Law; Stadtrecht des Königs Magnus Hakonarson
für Bergen. Brüchstücke des Birkinselrechts und Seefahrerrecht
der Jónsbók, ed. Rudolf Meissner (Weimar 1950)
Bjarkeyjar réttr Stadtrecht des Königs Magnus Hakonarson, ed. Meissner
Bjärköarätten Helsinge-Lagen, Kristnu-Balken af Smålands-Lagen, och
Bjärköarätten, ed. D. C. J. Schlyter (Lund 1844)
Danzig Danzig judgements; APG, 300, R/Fq, 1, Waterrecht
Dig. Digestum; Corpus Iuris Civilis. Text und Übersetzung, vol.
III, Dig. 11–20, eds Okko Behrends et al. (Heidelberg
1999)
Gotland SL Gotland Sea Law; Dat Gotlansche Waterrecht (Osnabrück
1967, facsimile of Copenhagen 1505)
Grágás Isländisches Recht. Die Graugans, ed. Andreas Heusler
(Weimar 1937)
Hamburg 1301/6 Hamburg Ship Law of 1301/6; Die ältesten Stadt-, Schiff-
und Landrechte Hamburgs, ed. J. M. Lappenberg (Aalen
1966, reprint of Hamburg 1845)
Hamburg 1497 Hamburg Ship Law of 1497; Die ältesten Stadt-, Schiff- und
Landrechte Hamburgs, ed. Lappenberg
HR 1447 Hanserecess of 1447; HR 2, III, no. 288
HUB I, no. 538 1259 letter from Hamburg to Lübeck; Hansisches
Urkundenbuch I, ed. Konstantin Hohlbaum (Halle
1876), no. 538
Jónsbók Stadtrecht des Königs Magnus Hakonarson, ed. Meissner
Kampen BvR Kampen Dat Boeck van Rechte; GAK, OA, no. 5, Dat Boeck
van Rechte dier Stat van Kampen
