Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1397.

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Renou, Pierre, 1836-1930.

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Landlord and tenant--France.

Landlord and tenant.

France.

Normandy (France)--History--Economic conditions--14th century.

Caen (France)--History--Economic conditions--14th century.

Genre:

contracts

leases

Manuscripts, French.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased in 1966.

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf) : parchment; 192 x 305 mm

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 19 Folder 34

Place of Publication:

1397.

Language Note:

In French.

Summary:

An agreement by Marceiu Vinnen, parishioner of Landes, a small town near Caen in the Calvados region of Normandy, to pay a yearly and perpetual rent of 15 bushels of barley (orge), one hen (geline), and 10 eggs to Pierre Renou, parishioner of Tournay (also in Calvados). The agreement is dated 1 October 1397 at the end of the text. The text is written in a secretary script and takes up 21 lines of 28 ruled lines; the lines are ruled in lead. There is an unidentifiable signature below the writing most likely belonging to a notary who oversaw the conclusion of the agreement. The reverse side of the parchment has writing in multiple hands.

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). Supplement A (2). Library Chronicle 36 (1970), p. 24 (Ms. Lea 426).

OCLC:

232636285