Police regulations of 16th-century Nuremberg. With a stamped binding.

[Binding] / [Police regulations]. Vernewte Policeyordnung, Mandata und Gesetz, Järlich am Ersten oder Andern Sontag in der Fasten, auff dem Lande zuverkünden. Gerlatz: Nürnberg, 1572. 4to [21.0 x 15.5 cm], [50] ff., [2] ff. integral blanks, with woodcut title-page border, woodcut arms on title, and woodcut initials. Quarter bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin, including the stamped arms of Nuremberg, over wood boards, clasps and catches. Some chipping and staining to pigskin, rubbing and edge wear to boards, catches and clasps mismatched with top set perhaps being an early repair, leather of both clasps renewed.
 
 
Rare (three U.S. copies: Yale Law, Harvard Law & Penn) 1572 extensively expanded edition of police regulations in Nuremberg, which was first printed in 1529.
 
This copy retains its contemporary binding of blind-stamped pigskin—including the stamped arms of Nuremberg—over wood boards. This seems to have been an edition binding of sorts, for official use, given that the same tools were used for the bindings of the copies in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Bamberg (and likely others) and the clasps and catches are also quite uniform.
 
Apostasy, making noise at night, dietary laws, gossiping in church, unregulated ‘spinning rooms’ (string, thread, yarn, etc.), drunkenness, elopement, cohabitation, the marriage of widows, peddlers, stray dogs, fowling & fishing, fires & fireplaces, etc. The code ends with an (antisemitic) treatment of strictures placed on Jews. 
 
 
OCLC and KVK locate U.S. copies of this work at Yale Law, Harvard Law, and Penn.
 
*VD 16 N 2016; Wolfgang Wüst, Die “gute” Policey im Fränkischen Reichskreis, vol. 2, pp. 114-7 & 125-66.