[Financial records].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Language:

• French, Old (ca. 842-1300)
• Provençal (to 1500)

Subjects (All):

• Jean, de Verdun.
• Cancon (France)--Economic conditions--15th century.
• Cancon (France)--Social conditions--15th century.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• financial records
• notarial documents
• Manuscripts, French.
• Manuscripts, Provençal.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

• Sold by Alan Brieux (Paris), 1958.

Physical Description:

26 leaves : paper ; 289 x 212 mm bound to 299 x 220 mm

Other Title:

Cens, rentes, revenues droiz et devoirs deubz a la recepte de Cancon.

Place of Publication:

[Cancon], [1463-1470]

Language Note:

Provençal (f. 1-13, 25-26) and Old French (f. 14-23).

Summary:

Records of rents and revenues in Cancon, in the Aquitaine region of France, while it was under the control of Jean de Verdun. Includes notarial signatures of Petrus de Copertone (f. 1-13, 26).

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger; other title, Cens, rentes, etc., supplied by Zacour-Hirsch.
• Rubric (f. 1r): JHS. Segonse los que an reconogut al noble senhor Johan de Verdu senhor dela peria e de Canquo per las gens et habitans de Canquo et al hunorable senhor mosseu Ramon dela faga son procurayre ...
• Foliation: Paper, 26; [1-26]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
• Layout: Written in long lines; the documents in Old French have wider margins than those in Provençal.
• Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script.
• Binding: Contemporary vellum (document in Provençal, 1374; Zacour-Hirsch); holes in back cover.
• Origin: Written in Cancon between 1463 and 1470 (f. 26v).

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. 63 (Ms. French 45).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 948

OCLC:

155925590