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Title

Reconoychenssas de Salelas e de Lemosis

Authors

• Johannes de Claromonte

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1104
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942522683503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/190811946
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4252268

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with Middle French notations in margins

Origin

Date

1397-1398

Place

France

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).

Notes

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

Extent

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

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.

Support

Parchment

Binding

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

Layout

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

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).

Script

Written in a secretary cursive script.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Fiefs--France

Genres

• Codices
• Surveys (documents)
• Notarial documents
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 14th century
• French
• France
• Document
• Legal

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Reconoychenssas de Salelas e de Lemosis, f. 1r