Details

Subjects:

Land tenure -- France -- History -- 16th century.
Feudalism -- France -- History -- 16th century.
History.
Feudalism.
Land tenure.
France -- History -- 16th century -- Economic aspects.
Maine-et-Loire (France) -- History -- 16th century -- Economic aspects.
France.

Form/Genre:

Financial records.
Receipts (financial records)
Codices.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

French.

Biography/History:

Chamberlain to King Charles VIII, who made Montalais the master of the forests of Anjou. He lived at the end of the 15th and at the beginning of the 16th centuries. Mathurin de Montalais was one of the first in this prominent family to attain a close relationship with the royal court.

Summary:

A record of receipts of feudal rents from the properties of Seaulx, la Fillotiere, Crisse, and Langevine. All of the properties mentioned in the manuscript as well as Mathurin de Montalais's estate of Chambellay are located in the area of Angers, in the Maine-et-Loire department of northwestern France. The locations of the properties are usually recorded above the main entries; the entries themselves indicate the subjects paying the rents and the amounts tendered. Each page usually contains just one entry, although sometimes another entry appears upside down at the bottom of the page. The writing varies in length significantly. There are marginal notes next to many of the entries, indicating the last names of the tenants and the specific plots of land they occupy. 8 leaves with accounts and ledgers are pasted in front of the main text.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 289; I-CCLXXX; contemporary foliation, upper right recto; [ix, 1-280], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a secretary script.
Binding: Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch), with writing on the outside and on the inside of the binding; the spine is caving in.
Origin: Written in France, in the early 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Purchased in 1953.

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. 189 (Ms. Lea 202).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1235

OCLC:

236486659