New York University, Fragment 108

Metadata

DS ID:

DS408

Shelfmark:

Fragment 108

Title:

Will of Johanna Girard

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1509, March 23; s. XVI(in); 1500-1515

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Script, Face-dorse: Cursive charter hand.
Layout, Face-dorse: 26 long lines, plus the signature.

Former Owner(s):

This collection of English binding fragments was given to NYU by Homer Lewis Bartlett (1858-1940), who graduated in 1884 from NYU with a degree in Science and Civil Engineering; he married Clarice Sherman Noble in 1892; they had five children.

Homer Lewis Bartlett WIKIDATA

by 1902, he was second vice-president of the Eastern District Savings Bank. De Ricci states that the collection (of 101 fragments with 70 others laid into the album) was given to NYU in 1884 (the same year in which Homer L. Bartlett graduated).

Note:

Bibliography: De Ricci, p. 1346.
Face-dorse: Latin.
Face; dorse is blank: Will of Johanna Girard, widow of Robert de Bray, of the parish of Saint-Jean-en-greve in Paris (church torn down ca. 1797-1800, formerly located near the present Hôtel de Ville), dated 23 March 1509; she leaves donations to the altar of St. Jean and to the confraternities of St. Sebastian and of the Holy Sacrament, all in the afore-named church; she chooses to be buried...

Holding Institution:

New York University