Western Michigan University, WMU MS 166

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6444

Shelfmark:

WMU MS 166

Title:

Leaf from a censier or rent book of tenant farms in La Chapelle

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1340-1360

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Text in French

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 291 x 256 mm

Note:

Ms. document.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Excised from a larger manuscript; prickings visible along the outer edges; binding holes along the inner margins. 1 column of ruled for 30 long lines in a Northern Textualis Gothic script, with 6 original lines or entries on recto, and nine on the verso; nine further near-contemporary lines added to the second entry on the recto in a similar hand. A 3-line initial in red and blue with pen...
It may have been produced as the personal copy of the seigneur. The site is likely to be identifiable as La Chapelle-Gaceline (Morbihan) in Brittany. The place-names, Caro, Le Tay and perhaps also La Gaial (perhaps La Gacilly), point to the immediate surrounds of La Chapelle-Gaceline.

Keyword:

detached leaves

Leases

Manuscripts, French

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Land tenure

Farm rents

Initials

Institutional Record:

https://primo-pmtna01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/4dvb3u/01WMU_ALMA21366636320002436

IIIF Manifest:

https://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/iiif/m/WMUwmu~77~77~1222506~160213/manifest

Holding Institution:

Western Michigan University