Details

Subjects:

Accounting -- France -- 14th century.
Mills and mill-work -- Early works to 1800.
Textile industry -- France -- Early works to 1800.
Textile industry.
Mills and mill-work.
Accounting.
Poligny (France).
France.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Middle French.

Summary:

Record of expenses for mills, mostly fulling mills, in Poligny in the Jura region in eastern France. Fulling mills were facilities for cleansing and felting woolen fabrics. The entries include payments for equipment (for example, a millstone, hammers for fulling, and nails), transport, and labor. The expenses on this leaf are entered under the heading Molins Giraut Barthoz. The entries are written in chancery script by a single hand in 2 columns of 63 lines, a wide column on the left for information about each expense and a narrow column on the right for the cost, ruled in lead.

Notes:

Ms. leaf.
Title supplied by cataloger.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Appears in Sam Fogg's cat. 16 (1995), no. 69.
Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 43.
Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 148 (LJS 212).

Cited as:

Oversize UPenn LJS 212.

Contributor:

Stanitz, John D., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

794846276

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page