Livre des cens et rentes.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
84 leaves : parchment ; 220 x 145 mm bound to 229 x 152 mm - Production:
- [France], 1384.
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3ht2gc3v - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- History.
France -- History -- Medieval period, 987-1515 -- Economic aspects.
France. - Form/Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
Manuscripts, French -- 14th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval. - Language:
- French.
- 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).
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.
Script: Written in a Gothic script.
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).
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.
Origin: Written in France, Départment de Charante[?], in 1384.
Inside the front cover is a pasted-in note in French, dated 1889. - Penn Provenance:
- Sold by B. Galanti, October 1952.
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 146 (Ms. Lea 2).
- Cited as:
- Livre des cens et rentes (Ms. Codex 19). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- Contributor:
- Bonea, Ithier, seignor des Brousses.
- OCLC:
- 155959506
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review.