The Schwabenspiegel manuscript was commissioned in 1410. It
contains a collection of land and feudal laws that were in effect
during the late middle ages in southern Germany and what is now the
German speaking part of Switzerland. Additional content bound in
this volume includes the biblical books of Kings and Maccabees as
well as a first German translation of the Handfeste, the Fribourg
City Law of 1249. An unusual item found in this manuscript is a
miniature of the Flag of Fribourg, which appears here for the first
time as we know it today, in the colors black and white.
