Reconoychenssas de Salelas e de Lemosis.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Johannes de Claromonte.

Language:

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Charles VI, King of France, 1368-1422.

Charles.

Fiefs.

France--History--14th century.

France.

History.

Fiefs--France.

Sallèles d'Aude (France).

Limoux (France).

Castres (Tarn, France).

Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales, France).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

surveys (documents)

notarial documents

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1958?

Physical Description:

199 leaves : parchment ; 358 x 283 (253 x 166) mm bound to 374 x 290 mm

Other Title:

De Salellis et de Lemosis

Place of Publication:

[France], [1397-1398]

Language Note:

Latin, with Middle French notations in margins.

Summary:

Surveys of possessions and fiefs in the Languedoc-Rousillon and Midi Pyrénées regions for King Charles VI of France during the second peace of the Hundred Years' War, through Johannes de Claromonte (modern Chiaromonte), with notarization, and a page of pen trials (f. 199r).

Contents:

1. f.1r-139v: Reconoychenssas de Salelas e de Lemosis.

2. f.140r-194v: Reconoychenssas de Casthans.

3. f.195r-198v: Reconoychenssas de Pradelas.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title of first work (f. 1r).

Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 199 + i (modern paper); 1⁷(+1) 2¹⁰ 3⁷(-1,+7) 4-17⁸ 18⁴ 19⁸ 20⁸(-4,5) 21-24⁸ 25⁹(+9) 26⁶(-5); contemporary foliation in Roman numerals for each separate work, upper right recto: 1-17, 19-140 (= f. 18-139), 1- 11 (= f. 140-150), 14-57 (= f. 151-194), 1-4 (= f. 195-198), [i] (pastedown, = f. 199). References in this record are to modern foliation.

Layout: Written in 37-38 long lines, ruled in lead, text box outlined in ink.

Script: Written in a secretary cursive script.

Decoration: Manicules (f. 99v, 110v), decorated initial A with hungry dragon (f. 140r), decorated initial R with face in profile with another face in profile on opposite side of title (f. 195r), decorated 4-line initials (f. 195v, 196v, 198r).

Binding: Modern stamped calf over wooden boards; f. 199v shows signs of having been a pastedown for a previous binding.

Origin: Written in southern France in 1397-1398 (Zacour-Hirsch).

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. 24-25 (Ms. Latin 110).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1104.

OCLC:

190811949

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