Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI

Title

Regulations for mills and bakeries

Authors

• Cruchon, Louis

Other related names

• Tassel, Pierre, former owner
• Oliver, Raymond, 1909-1990, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 416
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5001566
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5001566

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Middle French

Origin

Date

1518

Place

Rouen

Summary

Official copies of regulations pertaining to mills and bakeries in Rouen from the 14th century up to 1518. The copies were made at the request of Pierre Tassel, overseer of the Rouen mills (fermier des moulins de la dit ville de Rouen), under the supervision of Louis (Loys) Cruchon, a member of the Rouen parliament, who signed the manuscript repeatedly (f. 9v, 13v, 16r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

26 leaves : 205 x 150 (134 x 94) mm. bound to 213 x 155 mm

Collation

Parchment, i + 28 + i; 1-2⁸ 3⁶ 4⁴; [1-28], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary morocco, blind-stamped, lacking spine and clasps.

Layout

Written in 18 long lines; frame-ruled in red ink.

Decoration

4-line initial in red (f. 17r); 3-line calligraphic initial (f. 14r); 2-line initial with grotesque face in profile (f. 22r); one rubric in red (f. 10v); line-fillers in red and blue; initials touched with yellow wash.

Script

Written in a semi-batârde script, with contemporary signatures at the end of each section except the last (f. 9v, 13v, 16r), possibly in two hands (f. 1r-16r, 17r-26r).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Pierre Tassel (original owner, f. 9v, 13v, 16r) and French chef Raymond Oliver (label, front flyleaf).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 1994, lot 87; handled by Simon Finch Rare Books (London) at some point between Sotheby's and Fogg.
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, April 2001.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Bakers--France--Early works to 1800
• Bread--France--Early works to 1800
• Weights and measures--France--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Legal documents
• Manuscripts, French--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Licenses

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  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 1r
• fol. 10v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 10v
• fol. 14r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 14r
• fol. 14r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 14r
• fol. 17r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 17r
• fol. 22r — Decorated initial, Initial I, Grotesque face, f. 22r