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Livre des cens et rentes

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3ht2gc3v
Title: Livre des cens et rentes
Name: Brousses (Seigneury), Bonea, Ithier, seignor des Brousses
Date: 1384
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: codices (bound manuscripts), Manuscripts, French, Manuscripts, Medieval, manuscripts (documents)
Description: List of rents due to one Ithier Bonea, seignor des Brousses. Most of the listings of tenants are by parish, occasionally by town.
Extent: 84 leaves : parchment ; 220 x 145 mm bound to 229 x 152 mm
Language: French
Coverage: Medieval period, 987-1515
Note: Ms. codex., Title and date from rubric (incipit) on f. 1r., Incipit: Ceci est le livre des cens et rentes dehus a noble home moss. It[h]ier Bonea chevalier seignor des Brousses tant en ble que en deniers. Et autres chousses es porroisses qui sansuyvent. Fait lan mil iii(c) iiii(xx) et quatre [the c is written above the iii, and the xx is written above the iiii] (f. 1r)., Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 84 + i (modern paper); [i]², 1⁶(+2), 2¹⁰(+1), 3⁸(+1), 4-7¹⁰, 8⁸(+2), (+1), [iii]; [iv], 1-158, [vi]; 19th-century pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [ii], [1-82]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folios 19 and 80-82 are later inserts. They do not contain text but appear to have been added at the time the manuscript was bound but before it was paginated., Script: Written in a Gothic script., Decoration: Rubricated, with paragraph markers and capitals stroked in red ink; simple red initials and some section headings decorated with grotesque faces (for example, f. 148v)., Binding: 18th-century[?] French[?] morocco over pasteboard, with 19th-century rebacking. Upper and lower covers each have 4 golden circular bosses decorated with quatrefoil. Center of upper cover has gold-stamped crown; center of lower cover has gold-stamped fleur-de-lis. Fleurs-de-lis stamped in gold on each corner of both covers and worked into the spine. Cover pulling away; front hinge completely detached; lower part of spine missing; flyleaves loose., Origin: Written in France, Départment de Charante[?], in 1384., Inside the front cover is a pasted-in note in French, dated 1889., French.
Relation: Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3ht2gc3v
Subject: History
Geographic Subject: France -- History -- Medieval period, 987-1515 -- Economic aspects, France
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 19
Provenance: Sold by B. Galanti, October 1952.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9914691753503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3ht2gc3v/manifest

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1452

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 19

Title:

Livre des cens et rentes

Author:

Brousses (Seigneury)

Seigneury de Brousses Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Place:

France

TGN

Date:

1384.

fourteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

French

WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment

AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 84 leaves : parchment ; 220 x 145 mm bound to 229 x 152 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title and date from rubric (incipit) on f. 1r.
Incipit: Ceci est le livre des cens et rentes dehus a noble home moss. It[h]ier Bonea chevalier seignor des Brousses tant en ble que en deniers. Et autres chousses es porroisses qui sansuyvent. Fait lan mil iii(c) iiii(xx) et quatre [the c is written above the iii, and the xx is written above the iiii] (f. 1r).
Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 84 + i (modern paper); [i]2, 16(+2), 210(+1), 38(+1), 4-710, 88(+2), (+1), [iii]; [iv], 1-158, [vi]; 19th-century pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [ii], [1-82]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folios 19 and 80-82 are later inserts. They do not contain text but appear to have been added at the time the manuscript was bound but...
Script: Written in a Gothic script.
Decoration: Rubricated, with paragraph markers and capitals stroked in red ink; simple red initials and some section headings decorated with grotesque faces (for example, f. 148v).
Binding: 18th-century[?] French[?] morocco over pasteboard, with 19th-century rebacking. Upper and lower covers each have 4 golden circular bosses decorated with quatrefoil. Center of upper cover has gold-stamped crown; center of lower cover has gold-stamped fleur-de-lis. Fleurs-de-lis stamped in gold on each corner of both covers and worked into the spine. Cover pulling away; front hinge...
Origin: Written in France, Départment de Charante[?], in 1384.
Inside the front cover is a pasted-in note in French, dated 1889.
Sold by B. Galanti, October 1952.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, French

Fourteenth century

France

987-1515

History

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9914691753503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3ht2gc3v/manifest