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Title

Livre des cens et rentes

Authors

• Brousses (Seigneury)
• Bonea, Ithier, seignor des Brousses

Call number

Ms. Codex 19
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914691753503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86167187
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1469175

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

French

Origin

Date

1384

Place

France

Summary

List of rents due to one Ithier Bonea, seignor des Brousses. Most of the listings of tenants are by parish, occasionally by town.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and date from rubric (incipit) on f. 1r.
   
• Incipit: Ceci est le livre des cens et rentes dehus a noble home moss. It[h]ier Bonea chevalier seignor des Brousses tant en ble que en deniers. Et autres chousses es porroisses qui sansuyvent. Fait lan mil iii(c) iiii(xx) et quatre [the c is written above the iii, and the xx is written above the iiii] (f. 1r).
   
• Inside the front cover is a pasted-in note in French, dated 1889.
   

Extent

84 leaves : 220 x 145 mm. bound to 229 x 152 mm

Collation

Parchment, i (modern paper) + 84 + i (modern paper); [i]², 1⁶(+2), 2¹⁰(+1), 3⁸(+1), 4-7¹⁰, 8⁸(+2), (+1), [iii]; [iv], 1-158, [vi]; 19th-century pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [ii], [1-82]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folios 19 and 80-82 are later inserts. They do not contain text but appear to have been added at the time the manuscript was bound but before it was paginated.

Support

Parchment

Binding

18th-century[?] French[?] morocco over pasteboard, with 19th-century rebacking. Upper and lower covers each have 4 golden circular bosses decorated with quatrefoil. Center of upper cover has gold-stamped crown; center of lower cover has gold-stamped fleur-de-lis. Fleurs-de-lis stamped in gold on each corner of both covers and worked into the spine. Cover pulling away; front hinge completely detached; lower part of spine missing; flyleaves loose.

Decoration

Rubricated, with paragraph markers and capitals stroked in red ink; simple red initials and some section headings decorated with grotesque faces (for example, f. 148v).

Script

Written in a Gothic script.

Provenance

• Sold by B. Galanti, October 1952.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, French--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 14th century
• Accounts
• French
• France
• Financial records

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 2r — Decorated intial, Initial I, Face, f. 2r
• fol. 6r — Decorated heading, f. 6r
• fol. 13v — Decorated initial, Initial I, Face, f. 13v
• fol. 14r — Decorated initial, Initial I, Face, f. 14r
• fol. 26v — Decorated heading, Face, f. 26v
• fol. 34v — Decorated heading, Face, f. 34v
• fol. 36v — Decorated initial, Face, f. 36v
• fol. 43r — Decorated heading, f. 43r
• fol. 51v — Decorated heading, f. 51v
• fol. 53v — Decorated heading, Face, f. 53v
• fol. 55v — Decorated heading, f. 55v
• fol. 64v — Decorated heading, Face, f. 64v
• fol. 67v — Decorated heading, f. 67v
• fol. 67v — Decorated initial, Face, f. 67v
• fol. 70v — Decorated initial, Face, f. 70v
• fol. 71r — Decorated heading, Face, f. 71r
• fol. 71v — Decorated heading, Face, f. 71v
• fol. 72v — Decorated initial, Initial I, Face, f. 72v
• fol. 74r — Decorated initial, Initial I, Face, f. 74r
• fol. 74v — Decorated heading, Face, f. 74v
• fol. 78v — Decorated initial, Initial I, Face, f. 78v
• fol. 79r — Decorated initial, Face, f. 79r