Dieudonné Cabanier homage, 1324

Name:

Cabanier, Dieudonné, 14th century; Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Date:

1324

Description:

Legal instrument recording the acknowledgement by Dieudonné Cabanier (Latinized as Deodatus Cabaneri in the manuscript) of his status as vassal subject to Béranger d'Arpajon (Latinized as Brengario de Arpaione), seigneur de Castèlnòu de Leveson (now Castelnau-Pégayrols). Text includes references to various locations in the former province of Rouergue, now encompassed by the department of Aveyron, in the north of the Occitanie region of southern France. The manuscript is written in batârde script, dated 1324, and signed by a notary. Two later capsule descriptions in French written in ink on the verso, added to be visible when the document was folded and filed. Rodent damage along creases with minor loss of text.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Vitaliy Shteyngolts, 2017.

Relation:

The Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366271

Subject:

Homage (Feudal law)

Form/Genre:

legal instruments; notarial documents; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Medieval; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf) : parchment; 570 x 280 mm.

Geographic Subject:

Aveyron (France) -- History -- Sources

Rights:

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

Notes:

In Latin, with later summaries in French (verso).; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Misc Mss (Large) Box 3 Folder 8

Collection:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Large); Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund