[Two letters concerning the territories of the late Amaury de Sevrac] : 1446-1447.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Charles VII, King of France, 1403-1461.

Contributor:

Rouergue. Seneschal.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

France--History--15th century.

France.

History.

Armagnac (France).

Gascony (France).

Amaury, de Sévérac.

Jean, d'Armagnac.

Local Subjects:

Amaury, de Sévérac.

Jean, d'Armagnac.

Genre:

Manuscripts, French.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Provenance: Archives de l'Ordre de Malthe (stamp on second letter).

Sold by Maison Jacques, Étienne et Noël Charavay (Paris), 1952.

Physical Description:

2 items (2 leaves) : parchment ; 20 x 39 cm and 9 x 37 cm

Other Title:

Charles par la grace de dieu roy de france, a nos amez et feaulx conseillers les tresoriers de france salut et dileccion.

Les tresoriers de france aux seneschal et juge.

Arrangement:

Both letters are in one large mylar sleeve in a large folder.

Place of Publication:

1446-1447.

Language Note:

In French.

Summary:

Two letters concerning the territories of the late Amaury de Sevrac. First letter, dated 26 August 1446, is from King Charles VII of France to his councilors and treasurers. This letter instructs that the territories of the late Amaury de Sévérac, which had been held illegally by Jean d'Armagnac, were henceforth to be united with the royal domain. Second letter, dated 18 January 1446 [sic; i.e. 1447], is from the royal treasurers to the seneschal of Rouergue, instructing him to carry out the king's wishes.

Notes:

Incipit of first letter: Charles par la grace de dieu roy de france, a nos amez et feaulx conseillers les tresoriers de france salut et dileccion. ...

Incipit of second letter: Les tresoriers de France Aux seneschal et juge ...

France; first letter written at Razilly.

Bâtarde.

Letter from King Charles VII is not signed. The signature, if there was one, may have been cut away, necessitating the parchment repair evident in the lower margin.

There was a wax seal on the second letter, but it is no longer extant.

Transcriptions and dealer's catalog on file in the Library.

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. 219 (Ms. Lea 367).

Maison Jacques, Étienne et Noël Charavay. Lettres autographes et documents historiques (Catalog, April 1952) (Paris, 1952), p. 14 (item 24.430).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Oversize 13.

OCLC:

213468129