University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 781

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1668

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 781

Title:

Statutes and constitution of the Ordre de Saint-Michel

Statute

Author:

Ordre de Saint-Michel

Order of Saint Michael WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1469 and 1476

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle French

Middle French WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 45 leaves : parchment ; 201 x 144 (150 x 92) mm bound to 209 x 155 mm

Note:

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 prévost 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.
Sold by W. & G. Foyle, 1954.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, French

codices (bound manuscripts)

bylaws (administrative records)

constitutions

Military religious orders

France

Ordre de Saint-Michel

Politics and government

Orders of knighthood and chivalry

Political science

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9935676823503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania