Details

Subjects:

Land titles -- Registration and transfer -- France -- History.
Land titles -- Registration and transfer.
History.
Ardennes -- History.
France.

Form/Genre:

Deeds.
Fragments (object portions)
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

In French.

Summary:

A document, dated 1300, granting feudal rights to Gervais de Donchery and to his wife by Thiebaus de Maliers, seigneur de Châtel en Ardenne. The area is in northeastern France, to the south of Sedan and to the east of Reims. The document is written in 25 long lines, in a secretary script; a contemporary or near-contemporary note on verso also dates the document to 1300.

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:

Donchery, Gervais de, addressee.
Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

237183202