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Livre des cens et rentes Ms. Codex 19
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Abstract

List of rents due to one Ithier Bonea, seignor des Brousses. Most of the listings of tenants are by parish, occasionally by town.

Physical Description

Support: parchment; Extent: 84 leaves : 220 x 145 mm. bound to 229 x 152 mm; Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 84 + i (modern paper); [i]², 1⁶(+2), 2¹⁰(+1), 3⁸(+1), 4-7¹⁰, 8⁸(+2), (+1), [iii]; [iv], 1-158, [vi]; 19th-century pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [ii], [1-82]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folios 19 and 80-82 are later inserts. They do not contain text but appear to have been added at the time the manuscript was bound but before it was paginated.

Script

Written in a Gothic script.

Decoration

Rubricated, with paragraph markers and capitals stroked in red ink; simple red initials and some section headings decorated with grotesque faces (for example, f. 148v).

For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title and date from rubric (incipit) on f. 1r.

Incipit: Ceci est le livre des cens et rentes dehus a noble home moss. It[h]ier Bonea chevalier seignor des Brousses tant en ble que en deniers. Et autres chousses es porroisses qui sansuyvent. Fait lan mil iii(c) iiii(xx) et quatre [the c is written above the iii, and the xx is written above the iiii] (f. 1r).

Inside the front cover is a pasted-in note in French, dated 1889.

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

Spine

Keywords
14th century
Accounts
French
France
Financial records
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Place of Origin

France

Date

Written in France, Départment de Charante[?], in 1384.

Binding

18th-century[?] French[?] morocco over pasteboard, with 19th-century rebacking. Upper and lower covers each have 4 golden circular bosses decorated with quatrefoil. Center of upper cover has gold-stamped crown; center of lower cover has gold-stamped fleur-de-lis. Fleurs-de-lis stamped in gold on each corner of both covers and worked into the spine. Cover pulling away; front hinge completely detached; lower part of spine missing; flyleaves loose.

Language

French

Provenance

Sold by B. Galanti, October 1952.

return to search Livre des cens et rentes Ms. Codex 19

Place of Origin

France

Date

Written in France, Départment de Charante[?], in 1384.

Language

French

Provenance

Sold by B. Galanti, October 1952.

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

List of rents due to one Ithier Bonea, seignor des Brousses. Most of the listings of tenants are by parish, occasionally by town.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title and date from rubric (incipit) on f. 1r.

Incipit: Ceci est le livre des cens et rentes dehus a noble home moss. It[h]ier Bonea chevalier seignor des Brousses tant en ble que en deniers. Et autres chousses es porroisses qui sansuyvent. Fait lan mil iii(c) iiii(xx) et quatre [the c is written above the iii, and the xx is written above the iiii] (f. 1r).

Inside the front cover is a pasted-in note in French, dated 1889.

Script note

Written in a Gothic script.

Decoration Note

Rubricated, with paragraph markers and capitals stroked in red ink; simple red initials and some section headings decorated with grotesque faces (for example, f. 148v).

For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.

References
Binding Images

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

Spine

Keywords
14th century
Accounts
French
France
Financial records
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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