mark mersiowsky is drawn up by the testator in subjective form. The involvement of the town is manifest in the request for sealing with the town’s judge’s seal. Nevertheless, the town clerk also is the scribe.42 As in Esslingen, the will in Ulm is issued in subjective form by the testator. In accordance with the Ulm regulations on the need for two sworn Ulm judges, they are named both as witnesses and are requested to seal. The sealing was then done by the testator with his seal or by someone who sealed for him or her, as well as by the two judges, each with their private seal. In addition to these three seals, other persons, such as the pastor of Ulm, could also seal the document if their participation or consent was required.43 In addition to the sealed deeds, there are also the notarial instrument as well as hybrid forms of notarial instruments with the notary’s signet and signature, but additionally with seals of the maker and witnesses. In Ulm, these were then often the two required judges or other persons involved in the legal transaction.44 There are also Ulm wills without the participation of judges. The Ulm citizen Hartmann Ehinger prescribed annual payments for certain purposes; he donated his entire property in Gerlenhofen for this purpose. His sons Johann and Hartmann, his daughters Anna and Ursula, as well as a son-in-law, the Nördlingen citizen Heinrich Frickinger, gave their consent and sealed the document along with the testator. It is a subjectively drafted private document with a seal and co-sealing without the involvement of the municipal authorities of Ulm.45 Outside the city of Ulm, therefore, other forms were possible for dispositions of property.46 It is particularly instructive when the same person uses different forms. 42 E.g. Stadtarchiv EsslingenKHU930. 43 E.g. Stadtarchiv Ulm, A Urk. 236. 44 E.g. Stadtarchiv Ulm A Urk. 1524, Digitalization and regest at https://www.stadtarchivulm.findbuch.net/php/main.php?ar_id=3766#412055726b2ex3041; Stadtarchiv Ulm A Urk. 2752, Digitalization and regest at https://www.stadtarchiv-ulm.findbuch.net/php/ main.php#412055726b2ex4282. 45 Stadtarchiv Ulm, A Urk. Veesenmeyer Nr. 78. 46 Reference should also be made here to Stadtarchiv Ulm A Urk. Veesenmeyer Nr. 399. 25
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