[Financial records]

Name:

Cancon (France)

Timespan:

15th century

Date:

1463

Description:

Records of rents and revenues in Cancon, in the Aquitaine region of France, while it was under the control of Jean de Verdun. Includes notarial signatures of Petrus de Copertone (f. 1-13, 26).

Language:

Provençal, Old (to 1500); Occitan, Old (to 1500)

Provenance:

Sold by Alan Brieux (Paris), 1958.

Subject:

Jean, de Verdun

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Financial records; Notarial documents; Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, Provençal; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

26 leaves : paper; 289 x 212 mm bound to 299 x 220 mm

Geographic Subject:

Cancon (France) -- Economic conditions -- 15th century; Cancon (France) -- Social conditions -- 15th century

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger; other title, Cens, rentes, etc., supplied by Zacour-Hirsch.; Rubric (f. 1r): JHS. Segonse los que an reconogut al noble senhor Johan de Verdu senhor dela peria e de Canquo per las gens et habitans de Canquo et al hunorable senhor mosseu Ramon dela faga son procurayre ...; Foliation: Paper, 26; [1-26]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in long lines; the documents in Old French have wider margins than those in Provençal.; Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script.; Binding: Contemporary vellum (document in Provençal, 1374; Zacour-Hirsch); holes in back cover.; Origin: Written in Cancon between 1463 and 1470 (f. 26v).; Provençal (f. 1-13, 25-26) and Old French (f. 14-23).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 948