1981 - Buttstadt.

Buttstadt. "Acta: A Gratefully Unrequested Recommendation Regarding the Publication of a Collection of Princely State Laws, Regulations, and Circulars." German manuscript on laid paper. Dated Weimar/Buttstadt 1799–1800. Small folio, 6 unnumbered leaves (blank) and 1 printed leaf. Stapled. A letter announcing the new ducal collection of laws, which is to be published shortly, as a supplement to the one edited by Löber, which is already available in print. Attached is a sheet with printed information about the work, edited by Johann Schmidt, Privy Councilor of Weimar; the entire document is bound into a file from the town of Buttstadt containing records by a local notary. - An archival document of little significance in and of itself, but one that is closely connected to the “Secret Council” in Weimar, whose most prominent member, as is well known, was Goethe. The letter dated October 24, 1799 is signed by Privy Councilors Johann Schmidt and Christian Gottlob von Voigt (1743–1819) (here likely in an imitative copy), both of whom worked closely with Goethe, the latter of whom was also bound to him by a long-standing friendship. R