[Financial recommendations for Francis I].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Subjects (All):

Francis I, King of France, 1494-1547.

Francis.

Monarchy--France--Early works to 1800.

Monarchy.

Economic policy.

France--Economic policy--16th century.

France.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, French -- 16th century.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Inscriptions by former owners: Xaraquemada, Madrid, 1753 (f. 1r); J. M. A. 1835 (f. 1v).

Sold at the ranch sale of Hans de Bücher, 27 and 30 March, 1954.

Physical Description:

16 leaves : parchment ; 171 x 118 (116 x 67) mm bound to 177 x 123 mm

Production:

[France], [circa 1522]

Language Note:

Middle French.

Summary:

Recommendations for Francis I concerning the payment and collection of taxes, the king's budget, and the categories of ordinary and extraordinary expenses.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger; title page missing.

ff. 2r-14r: "[rubr.] Lemoulument cler et vray concernant lauctorite du Roy, le prouffit de ses affaires et subiectz en lobservation de ceste figure selon les articles y apposez. [text] Les affaires du Roy ne seront plus subiectz a ses finances ... Et dudit argent quil aura faict lever en advertira lesditz trois personnaiges qui en feront registre a part a ce quilz ne assignent aulcun a faulte. [rubr.] Lan mil cincqcensquinze, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520, 521, et iusques a lan mil cinq cens vingt et deux. Sans y povoir donner provision mon filz et moy feusmes continuellement desrobez par les gens de finances."

Collation: Parchment; 16; this manuscript has a complex structure, with two subquires of 10 and 4 leaves enclosed within 3 bifolia, with the first leaf used as a pastedown and three leaves cut out (the front half of the third outer bifolium and the first leaf of the first subquire after f.1, and the last leaf of the first subquire after f. 9); [1-16]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in a single column of 26 lines; frame-ruled in lead.

Script: Written in a round humanistic script.

Decoration: Paragraph signs and initial letters are gold on alternate red and blue backgrounds and the spaces at paragraph ends are filled with decorations of the same colors. Rubrics in red (ff. 2r, 3r, 10r, 14r).

Binding: Contemporary sheepskin (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in France at the end of 1522 or before March 1523 (Wolfe-Zacour).

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 18).

Publications about:

For published edition and translation, see Wolfe, Martin and Zacour, Norman. "The Growing Pains of French Finance, 1522-1523," Library Chronicle, XXII (Spring/Summer 1956), 58-83.

Herman, Nicholas. Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries (exh. cat.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2020. 254-55 (cat. 76).

Virastau, Nicolae Alexandru. Early modern French autobiography (Leiden: Brill, 2021), p. 92.

Cited as:

Financial recommendations for Francis I (Ms. Codex 849). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

155925503

Online:

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