Details

Subjects:

Flandre et Artois, Marguerite, comtesse de, 1350-1405.
Gifts -- France -- History -- 14th century.
History.
Gifts.
France -- History -- 14th century -- Economic aspects.
France.

Form/Genre:

Receipts (financial records)
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

In French.

Summary:

Receipt given by Sarrazius de Bethencourt for a gift given to him by the comtesse de Flandres et Artois through Michel de Cambier. The countess, Marguerite, was the wife of Philip I, duc de Boulogne; after her first husband's death she married Philip II de Valois, duc de Bourgogne. The document is dated February 2, 1377. The text is written on vellum in 8 long lines, in a secretary script; the lines are ruled in lead.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1957.

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.187 (Ms. Lea 197).

Contributor:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

237186762