Reconoychenssas de Salelas e de Lemosis

Alternate Title:

De Salellis et de Lemosis

Name:

Johannes de Claromonte

Timespan:

14th century

Date:

1397

Description:

Surveys of possessions and fiefs in the Languedoc-Rousillon and Midi Pyrénées regions for King Charles VI of France during the second peace of the Hundred Years' War, through Johannes de Claromonte (modern Chiaromonte), with notarization, and a page of pen trials (f. 199r).

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1958?

Subject:

Charles VI, King of France, 1368-1422; Fiefs; History; Fiefs -- France

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Surveys (documents); Notarial documents; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

199 leaves : parchment; 358 x 283 (253 x 166) mm bound to 374 x 290 mm

Geographic Subject:

France -- History -- 14th century; France; Sallèles d'Aude (France); Limoux (France); Castres (Tarn, France); Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales, France)

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from caption title of first work (f. 1r).; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-139v: Reconoychenssas de Salelas e de Lemosis.; Table of contents: 2. f.140r-194v: Reconoychenssas de Casthans.; Table of contents: 3. f.195r-198v: Reconoychenssas de Pradelas.; Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 199 + i (modern paper); 1⁷(+1) 2¹⁰ 3⁷(-1,+7) 4-17⁸ 18⁴ 19⁸ 20⁸(-4,5) 21-24⁸ 25⁹(+9) 26⁶(-5); contemporary foliation in Roman numerals for each separate work, upper right recto: 1-17, 19-140 (= f. 18-139), 1- 11 (= f. 140-150), 14-57 (= f. 151-194), 1-4 (= f. 195-198), [i] (pastedown, = f. 199). References in this record are to modern foliation.; Layout: Written in 37-38 long lines, ruled in lead, text box outlined in ink.; Script: Written in a secretary cursive script.; Decoration: Manicules (f. 99v, 110v), decorated initial A with hungry dragon (f. 140r), decorated initial R with face in profile with another face in profile on opposite side of title (f. 195r), decorated 4-line initials (f. 195v, 196v, 198r).; Binding: Modern stamped calf over wooden boards; f. 199v shows signs of having been a pastedown for a previous binding.; Origin: Written in southern France in 1397-1398 (Zacour-Hirsch).; Latin, with Middle French notations in margins.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1104