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 1340 and 1360
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
Access Rights:
This leaf is in the public domain. Western Michigan University holds the right to the image and reproduction. The images that are provided here are for non-profit, educational use only. For all other uses please contact Special Collections, Western Michigan University.
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