[Statutes and constitution of the Ordre de Saint-Michel].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Ordre de Saint-Michel.

Language:

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Subjects (All):

Ordre de Saint-Michel--Government.

Ordre de Saint-Michel.

Military religious orders--France.

Military religious orders.

Orders of knighthood and chivalry--France.

Orders of knighthood and chivalry.

Political science.

France.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

constitutions

bylaws (administrative records)

Manuscripts, French.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by W. & G. Foyle, 1954.

Physical Description:

45 leaves : parchment ; 201 x 144 (150 x 92) mm bound to 209 x 155 mm

Other Title:

Institutio de l'Ordre de S. Michel

Place of Publication:

[France], [between 1469 and 1476]

Language Note:

Middle French.

Biography/History:

The Ordre de Saint-Michel was established by Louis XI, King of France, on August 1, 1469, in an attempt to strengthen the loyalty of the feudal aristocracy.

Summary:

Statutes and constitution of the Ordre de Saint-Michel, detailing the responsibilities of the knights of the order, such as attendance at an annual meeting on the Feast of St. Michael (September 29).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

The date of the order's founding, 1469, appears on f. 33v; on the same page, a slightly later note refers to the position of the prévost maistre des ceremonies, which was instituted in 1476.

f. 1r: "[text] Loys par la grace de dieu roy de France. Savoir faisonz a touz presens et advenir ..."

Foliation: Parchment, ii + 45 + i; [1-45]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 22 long lines; frame-ruled in ink.

Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script.

Decoration: 4-line illuminated initial (f. 1r), gold letter on a red square decorated with gray (once silver?) vines and flowers.

Binding: 19th-century gilt red morocco (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in France between 1469 and 1476.

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. 57 (Ms. French 17).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 781

OCLC:

155925501