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Francis I brevet, 1524.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Misc Mss (Large) Box 3 Folder 9
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Francis I, King of France, 1494-1547.
- Language:
- French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
- Subjects (All):
- Turenne, Antoine de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de.
- France--History, Military--1328-1589--Sources.
- Genre:
- military commissions
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Vitaliy Shteyngolts, 2017.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf) : parchment ; 203 x 440 mm.
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Large). Box 3 Folder 9
- Place of Publication:
- 1524.
- Language Note:
- In Middle French.
- Summary:
- Commission signed by Francis I for the vicomte de Turenne (Antoine de La Tour, seigneur d'Oliergues), referred to by the king as a cousin, who married Antoinette de Pons, daughter of Guy and Jeanne de Castelnau, in 1494 and died in 1527. The commission grants the rank of captain and charge of twenty-five lances and fifty men-at-arms. The signature "Francoys" is inside a fold along the bottom edge of the document, with the signatures of Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet and admiral of France, and Jean Le Breton, minister of finance, on the front of the fold. There are slits for a seal, which is no longer present. Rodent damage with some loss of text along folds. Later capsule description in ink on verso, added to be visible when the document was folded and filed.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- Publications about:
- Transcription in Justel, Christofle. Histoire genealogique de la Maison d'Auvergne justifiée par chartes, titres, et histoires anciennes, et autres preuves authentiques. Paris: Veuve M. de Puy, 1645, p. 239.
- Herman, Nicholas. Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries (exh. cat.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2020. 41, 249–51 (cat. 74).
- OCLC:
- 1019656294
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