„Transmissionales in Causa Possessionis Resinar contra Liberam Regiamque Cibiniensis 1784”

Abstract:

The Bishop House Museum in Rășinari (Sibiu county) preserves valuable exhibits, such as a leather bound thick volume of 1,318 manuscript pages entitled Transmissionales in causa Possessionis Resinar contra Liberam Regiamque Civitatem Cibiniensem (Transmissionales in the Case of Rășinari’s Possession against the Free Royal City of Sibiu, 1784), comprising the lawsuits of the Romanian village of Rășinari conducted between 1735-1784 against the Saxon Magistrate of the Sibiu (Hermannstadt) city and seat. Hereinafter we start publishing the critical editing of the document’s first 40 pages, by transcription of the Latin text and translation into Romanian, thus aiming to facilitate the reading of this difficult baroque juridical text. The extensive footnotes include philological annotations (Vasile Rus), as well as historical, judiciary, biographical, toponymical explanations and identifications (Ela Cosma).

Keywords:

Transmissionales, 1735-1784, Rășinari, Sibiu Magistrate, lawsuits, critical edition of juridical documents