University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 849
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1692
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 849
- Title:
- Financial recommendations for Francis I.
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- [circa 1522]
- Language:
- Middle French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 16 leaves : parchment ; 171 x 118 (116 x 67) mm bound to 177 x 123 mm
- Note:
- ff. 2r-14r: "[rubr.] Lemoulument cler et vray concernant lauctorite du Roy, le prouffit de ses affaires et subiectz en lobservation de ceste figure selon les articles y apposez. [text] Les affaires du Roy ne seront plus subiectz a ses finances ... Et dudit argent quil aura faict lever en advertira lesditz trois personnaiges qui en feront registre a part a ce quilz ne assignent aulcun a faulte...
Origin: Written in France at the end of 1522 or before March 1523 (Wolfe-Zacour).
Title supplied by cataloger; title page missing.
Binding: Contemporary sheepskin (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Parchment; 16 (2 leaves cut out between first two leaves); [1-16]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in a single column of 26 lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a round humanist script.
Decoration: Paragraph signs and initial letters are gold on alternate red and blue backgrounds and the spaces at paragraph ends are filled with decorations of the same colors. Rubrics in red (ff. 2r, 3r, 10r, 14r).
Ms. codex.
Sold at the ranch sale of Hans de Bücher, 27 and 30 March, 1954.
Inscriptions by former owners: Xaraquemada, Madrid, 1753 (f. 1r); J. M. A. 1835 (f. 1v). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9935677923503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3n86x/manifest
- Holding Institution:
