Strictly speaking, this manuscript (COD 3655) is a “Stadtbuch”
(city register). In addition to the lists of new citizens up to
1441 (actually the oldest register of citizens written by town
clerk Werner Hofmeier fol. 1r-53v), it contains statutes, copies of
documents, notes regarding the administration (including a catalog
of the treasure of St. Peter's Chapel, fol. 19r, and an instruction
manual for the new clock in the “Graggenturm”, fol. 24r), as
well as chronicled notes. Worth mentioning among the latter are
notes about the battles of Sempach (fol. 22r), Näfels (fol. 22r)
and Arbedo (fol. 49r). The binding of wooden boards covered in
pigskin, on which is painted the coat of arms of Lucerne, dates
from the second half of the 16th century.
