University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Oversize 13

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2092

Shelfmark:

Ms. Oversize 13

Title:

Two letters concerning the territories of the late Amaury de Sevrac :

Author:

Charles VII, King of France, 1403-1461

Charles VII of France WIKIDATA

Date:

1446-1447.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In French

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 parchment ; 20 x 39 cm and 9 x 37 cm

Note:

There was a wax seal on the second letter, but it is no longer extant.
Incipit of first letter: Charles par la grace de dieu roy de france, a nos amez et feaulx conseillers les tresoriers de france salut et dileccion. ...
Incipit of second letter: Les tresoriers de France Aux seneschal et juge ...
France; first letter written at Razilly.
Transcriptions and dealer's catalog on file in the Library.
Letter from King Charles VII is not signed. The signature, if there was one, may have been cut away, necessitating the parchment repair evident in the lower margin.
Bâtarde.
Sold by Maison Jacques, Étienne et Noël Charavay (Paris), 1952.
Provenance: Archives de l'Ordre de Malthe (stamp on second letter).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, French

History

France--Gascony

France

France--Armagnac

Fifteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915804053503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3jp98/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania