Ms. Codex 849 Financial recommendations for Francis I.
Title
Financial recommendations for Francis I.Call number
Ms. Codex 849(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)
Alternate identifiers
- bibid: 9935677923503681
- http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80859752
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3n86x
Publisher
University of PennsylvaniaLanguage
Middle FrenchOrigin
Written in France at the end of 1522 or before March 1523 (Wolfe-Zacour).
- Date
- circa 1522
- Place
-
France
Summary
Recommendations for Francis I concerning the payment and collection of taxes, the king's budget, and the categories of ordinary and extraordinary expenses.
Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger; title page missing.
- ff. 2r-14r: "[rubr.] Lemoulument cler et vray concernant lauctorite du Roy, le prouffit de ses affaires et subiectz en lobservation de ceste figure selon les articles y apposez. [text] Les affaires du Roy ne seront plus subiectz a ses finances ... Et dudit argent quil aura faict lever en advertira lesditz trois personnaiges qui en feront registre a part a ce quilz ne assignent aulcun a faulte. [rubr.] Lan mil cincqcensquinze, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520, 521, et iusques a lan mil cinq cens vingt et deux. Sans y povoir donner provision mon filz et moy feusmes continuellement desrobez par les gens de finances."
Extent
16 leaves : 171 x 118 (116 x 67) mm bound to 177 x 123 mmFoliation
Parchment; 16 (2 leaves cut out between first two leaves); [1-16]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.Support
ParchmentBinding
Contemporary sheepskin (Zacour-Hirsch).Layout
Decoration
Paragraph signs and initial letters are gold on alternate red and blue backgrounds and the spaces at paragraph ends are filled with decorations of the same colors. Rubrics in red (ff. 2r, 3r, 10r, 14r).
Script
Provenance
- Inscriptions by former owners: Xaraquemada, Madrid, 1753 (f. 1r); J. M. A. 1835 (f. 1v).
- Sold at the ranch sale of Hans de Bücher, 27 and 30 March, 1954.
Subjects topical
- Francis--I,--King of France,--1494-1547
- Francis--I,--King of France,--1494-1547
- Monarchy--France--Early works to 1800
- Economic policy
- Monarchy
- France--Economic policy--16th century
- France
Genres
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Manuscripts, French--16th century
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
Keywords
- 16th century
- France
- French
Licenses
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Decoration: Owner signature, f. 1r

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Decoration: Owner signature, f. 1v