Boston Public Library, MS q Med.291

Metadata

DS ID:

DS3560

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.291

Title:

Acknowledgment of debts incurred by Louis, Duke of Orléans, and his company, to be paid by Jean, Duke of Berry : in French].

Author:

Foret, Michel, active 14th century

Michel Foret WIKIDATA

Place:

France]

France TGN

Date:

1392

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In French

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 sheet : parchment ; 60 x 265 mm

Note:

Ms. document.
Title devised by cataloger; description based in part on auctioneer's description.
Layout: Written in four lines.
Script: Written in brown ink in a notarial cursive (cursiva currens).
Origin: Copied in France on 13 February 1392.
Provenance: Offered at Sotheby's, London (23 May 2017, lot 53) to John and Raquel Russell.
Immediate source of acquisition: Gift of John and Raquel Russell of New York, New York, in April, 2023.

Keyword:

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, French

Manuscripts, Medieval

Berry, Jean de France, duc de, 1340-1416

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8526024

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library