[Registre des marches passes pour la reconstruction et les restaurations du chateau de Cancon].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Language:

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Subjects (All):

• Montferrand, Charles de.
• Castles--France.
• Castles.
• France.
• Nobility--France.
• Nobility.
• Cancon (France).

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• financial records
• Manuscripts, French -- 16th century.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

• Sold by Alan Brieux (Paris), 1958.

Physical Description:

39 leaves : paper ; 278 x 181 mm bound to 286 x 197 mm

Place of Publication:

[Cancon], [1544-1547]

Language Note:

Middle French.

Summary:

Records related to the reconstruction of the castle at Cancon belonging to Marie de Verdun and her husband Charles de Montferrand, with the repeated signature of notary Antoine Robert.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
• Rubric (f. 1r): Sensuyt tous les marches jay ont este faut unchant les bastiments de Monseigneur[?] de Cancon. [text] Saichent tous presens et advenire que en la presence de moy ...
• Foliation: Paper, 39; [1-41]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
• Layout: Written in 24-27 long lines.
• Script: Written in a cursive script.
• Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped leather, poor condition (Zacour-Hirsch).
• Origin: Written in Cancon between 1544 and 1547.
• The history of Cancon during this period is briefly described in Massip, Lucien. Histoire de la ville et des seigneurs de Cancon en Argenais depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'en 1789 (Cancon, 1891), pp. 138-140.

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 46).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 949

OCLC:

155925593

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