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Title

Statutes and constitution of the Ordre de Saint-Michel

Authors

• Ordre de Saint-Michel

Call number

Ms. Codex 781
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9935676823503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84101411
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3567682

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle French

Origin

Date

between 1469 and 1476

Place

France

Summary

Statutes and constitution of the Ordre de Saint-Michel, detailing the responsibilities of the knights of the order, such as attendance at an annual meeting on the Feast of St. Michael (September 29).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• The date of the order's founding, 1469, appears on f. 33v; on the same page, a slightly later note refers to the position of the prévost maistre des ceremonies, which was instituted in 1476.
   
• f. 1r: "[text] Loys par la grace de dieu roy de France. Savoir faisonz a touz presens et advenir ..."
   

Extent

45 leaves : 201 x 144 (150 x 92) mm. bound to 209 x 155 mm

Foliation

Parchment, ii + 45 + i; [1-45]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

19th-century gilt red morocco (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 22 long lines; frame-ruled in ink.

Decoration

4-line illuminated initial (f. 1r), gold letter on a red square decorated with gray (once silver?) vines and flowers.

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold by W. & G. Foyle, 1954.
   

Subjects topical

• Ordre de Saint-Michel--Government
• Military religious orders--France
• Orders of knighthood and chivalry--France

Genres

• Codices
• Constitutions
• Bylaws
• Manuscripts, French--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Statutes
• France
• French
• 15th century
• Charter
• Legal

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial L, f. 1r