Details

Subjects:

Trials (Blasphemy) -- France -- Early works to 1800.
Offenses against religion -- France.
Offenses against religion.
Trials (Blasphemy).
France.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Criminal court records.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

French.

Summary:

The original record made during the blasphemy trial of Girard (or Gerard) Didelot in the town of St. Dié in northeastern France. The trial record contains the testimonies of numerous witnesses who have heard the defendant utter blasphemous statements. The testimonies are followed by the record of the interrogation of the defendant (f. 9r-12r). The record of the trial is broken up into dated segments, with the proceedings beginning in 1569 and the last date being July 3rd, 1570. The records are signed in multiple places by Rasaille, Gordette, Le Brecq, Mainbourg, and others.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from cover.
Incipit: Informations preparatoires faictes de l'ordonance de messieurs venerables doien le chapitre de Sainct Diey, par honorable homme Gregoire Miatte maire desdits signeurs audict Diey sur plusieurs oultraiges et blasphemes...(f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 21 + i (modern paper); 1-5, [6-21]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 43-44 long lines.
Script: Written in a secretary script, likely by several hands.
Watermarks: Three sets of watermarks; several with a crowned coat of arms and possibly an eagle or a rooster inside it; several with a tall crown; one with a crowned coat of arms with the letter B inside.
Binding: Modern boards (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in St. Dié, France in 1569-1570.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased in 1949 (inscription, front and back flyleaf recto).

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. 224 (Ms. Lea 388).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1195

OCLC:

231621834