University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 949

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1741

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 949

Title:

Registre des marches passes pour la reconstruction et les restaurations du chateau de Cancon.

Author:

Cancon (France)

Cancon WIKIDATA

Place:

Cancon

Cancon TGN

Date:

[1544-1547]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle French

Middle French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 39 leaves : paper ; 278 x 181 mm bound to 286 x 197 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
The history of Cancon during this period is briefly described in Massip, Lucien. Histoire de la ville et des seigneurs de Cancon en Argenais depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'en 1789 (Cancon, 1891), pp. 138-140.
Ms. codex.
Rubric (f. 1r): Sensuyt tous les marches jay ont este faut unchant les bastiments de Monseigneur[?] de Cancon. [text] Saichent tous presens et advenire que en la presence de moy ...
Foliation: Paper, 39; [1-41]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 24-27 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Origin: Written in Cancon between 1544 and 1547.
Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped leather, poor condition (Zacour-Hirsch).
Sold by Alan Brieux (Paris), 1958.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, French

financial records

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Castles

Montferrand, Charles de

Nobility

Cancon (France)

France

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9935835773503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3dp2c/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania