Livre des cens et rentes.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Bonea, Ithier, seignor des Brousses.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

History.

France--History--Medieval period, 987-1515--Economic aspects.

France.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, French -- 14th century.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by B. Galanti, October 1952.

Physical Description:

84 leaves : parchment ; 220 x 145 mm bound to 229 x 152 mm

Production:

[France], 1384.

Language Note:

French.

Summary:

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).

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).

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.

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

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

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 146 (Ms. Lea 2).

Cited as:

Livre des cens et rentes (Ms. Codex 19). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

155959506

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