Details

Subjects:

Landlord and tenant -- France.
Landlord and tenant.
France.
Normandy (France) -- History -- Economic conditions -- 14th century.
Caen (France) -- History -- Economic conditions -- 14th century.

Form/Genre:

Contracts.
Leases.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

In French.

Summary:

An agreement by Marceiu Vinnen, parishioner of Landes, a small town near Caen in the Calvados region of Normandy, to pay a yearly and perpetual rent of 15 bushels of barley (orge), one hen (geline), and 10 eggs to Pierre Renou, parishioner of Tournay (also in Calvados). The agreement is dated 1 October 1397 at the end of the text. The text is written in a secretary script and takes up 21 lines of 28 ruled lines; the lines are ruled in lead. There is an unidentifiable signature below the writing most likely belonging to a notary who oversaw the conclusion of the agreement. The reverse side of the parchment has writing in multiple hands.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased in 1966.

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). Supplement A (2). Library Chronicle 36 (1970), p. 24 (Ms. Lea 426).

Contributor:

Renou, Pierre, 1836-1930.
Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

232636285