Abhandlung vom sogenannten Pfeifer-Gerichts - Fries, Johann Henrich Hermann 1696-1762; Senkenberg (Frankfurt am Main Mulz, 1752)
frontispiece engraving by Joh. Mich. Eben (1716-1761) after I.H.H. Fries jun(ior) containing music, referring to specific pages in the book
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeifergericht
The Pfeifergericht was a ceremony of the imperial city of Frankfurt am Main. It took place annually as part of a court day at the autumn fair and was first mentioned in a document in 1380. The origins of the ceremony lay in a privilege with which King Henry IV had exempted the citizens of Worms from the customs at Frankfurt in 1074. The customs duty was levied on all long-distance traders travelling north or east through the Frankfurt Main ford, and later also on merchants travelling to the Frankfurt Autumn Fair, which was documented from the middle of the 12th century. On the day before the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (on 7 September), the traditional start of the autumn fair, the 14 aldermen gathered in the Kaisersaal of the Römer under the chairmanship of the city sheriff to hold court. Meanwhile, the deputies of the three cities met in the Nuremberg Court. From there they moved over to the Römerberg. The procession was led by three Nuremberg city pipers who blew the traditional melody of the Piper's March on a shawm, a trombone and a pommer.
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Ex libris Freyherrlich von Schrottenberg (Plate and Stamp)
so in der Kaiserl. Freien Reichs-Stadt Frankfurt am Main, von uralten Zeiten her mit besondern und merkwürdigen Feierlichkeiten aljärlich einmal gehalten zu werden pflegt : welcher eine Kurze Nachricht Vom wahren Ursprung der beiden dasigen von Alters her berümten Reichs-Messen einverleibet . samt einigen andern zufälligen Anmerkungen und einem Sendschreiben des hochberümten Freiherrn von Senkenberg ... an den Verfasser
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); History; Law; Frankfurt am Main (Germany)