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[Statutes and constitution of the Ordre de Saint-Michel].

Author/Creator:
Ordre de Saint-Michel.
Publication:
[France], [between 1469 and 1476]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
45 leaves : parchment ; 201 x 144 (150 x 92) mm bound to 209 x 155 mm
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Other Title:
Institutio de l'Ordre de S. Michel
Subjects:
Ordre de Saint-Michel -- Government.
Ordre de Saint-Michel.
Military religious orders -- France.
Orders of knighthood and chivalry -- France.
Orders of knighthood and chivalry.
Military religious orders.
Political science.
France.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Constitutions.
Bylaws.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Middle French.
Biography/History:
The Ordre de Saint-Michel was established by Louis XI, King of France, on August 1, 1469, in an attempt to strengthen the loyalty of the feudal aristocracy.
Summary:
Statutes and constitution of the Ordre de Saint-Michel, detailing the responsibilities of the knights of the order, such as attendance at an annual meeting on the Feast of St. Michael (September 29).
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
The date of the order's founding, 1469, appears on f. 33v; on the same page, a slightly later note refers to the position of the preĢvost maistre des ceremonies, which was instituted in 1476.
f. 1r: "[text] Loys par la grace de dieu roy de France. Savoir faisonz a touz presens et advenir ..."
Foliation: Parchment, ii + 45 + i; [1-45]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 22 long lines; frame-ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script.
Decoration: 4-line illuminated initial (f. 1r), gold letter on a red square decorated with gray (once silver?) vines and flowers.
Binding: 19th-century gilt red morocco (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in France between 1469 and 1476.
Penn Provenance:
Sold by W. & G. Foyle, 1954.
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. 57 (Ms. French 17).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 781
OCLC:
155925501