COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Document Collection
Record
Identifier:
exwsms166_bk
Manuscript Identifier:
MS 166
Title:
Leaf from a Censier or rent book of tenant farms in La Chapelle
Alternative Title:
MS 166
Incipit:
Les heres pares
Origin Date:
between 1325 and 1375
Origin Location:
France or Brittany
Description:
A leaf from a Censier, a book of rents owed to the lordship of La Chapelle, with three entries.
Provenance:
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.
Extent:
1 leaf
Subject:
Farm rents--France--History--14th century
Subject:
Land tenure--France--History--14th century
Subject:
Leases--France--History--14th century
Subject:
Illumination of books and manuscripts--France--Specimens
Subject:
Manuscripts, French--France--Morbihan
Subject:
Manuscripts, Medieval--Michigan--Kalamazoo
Subject:
detached leaves
Language:
fre
Dimensions:
291 x 256 mm
Material:
parchment
Binding:
Excised from a larger manuscript; prickings visible along the outer edges; binding holes along the inner margins.
Decoration Description:
1 column of ruled for 30 long lines. A 3-line initial in red and blue with pen flourishes, two 2-line initials alternating red and blue with contrasting pen flourishes; some initial letters touched in yellow and two letters extending into upper margin with ornamental cadels; small stains to edge, with slight affect to penwork of uppermost initial.
Description of Hands:
Written 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.
Is Part Of:
Medieval Document Collection
Is Part Of:
Manuscript 166, Western Michigan University Special Collections
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Date-Issued:
2019
Type:
Text
Format:
image/jp2
Rights Statement:
Rights Status:
No Copyright - United States
Access Rights:
Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by Special Collections at Zhang Legacy Collections Center, Western Michigan University.