[Statutes and membership lists].

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Confrerie de Sainte-Euladie et de Saint-Gênes.

Language:

Provençal (to 1500)

Subjects (All):

Confraternities--France--Early works to 1800.

Confraternities.

France.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

statutes

lists (document genres)

Manuscripts, French.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Francis Roux-Devillas (Paris), 1961.

Physical Description:

11 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 352 x 265 (247 x 165) mm

Place of Publication:

[Bordeaux], [1530-1599].

Language Note:

Provençal.

Summary:

Fragment of the statutes and membership list (including 296 names) of the confraternity.

Contents:

1. f.1r: Aqueste presente confrairia fut instituide et levade l'an de grace mil iii ccc xxi (1321)...et fut renouvelat lou present libre l'an mil Vc xxx (1530) estans contes et bourseis Ramond de Peyleugey, peysoney et Guillaume Barhey taneur.

2. f.1v-7v: List of members, alphabetical by first name, with surnames added in later hands, some crossed out and written over, lacking end of A, B-F, beginning of G, end of I, K-L, end of M, N-O, end of P, and remainder of list.

3. f.8r-11v: Au nom deu pay et du filh et deu saint esperit...asso son lous stabliments...per lous confraires et confraieresses de las confrairies establidas en la gleise Sainct Euladie de Bourdeu 1321 [statutes, 34 items, end missing].

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

Foliation: Parchment, 11; [1-11]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Script: Written in a Gothic book script with later additions in a variety of cursive scripts by many hands.

Decoration: Strapwork initials decorated with grotesque faces and penwork ornamentation (f. 1r, 8r); Puzzle initial in red and blue ink, with purple ornamentation (f. 1v).

Origin: Written in Bordeaux, 1530 (f. 1r)-1599 (f. 3r).

Fragment, formerly sewn.

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. 67 (Ms. French 65).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 657

OCLC:

155985331