Book of rents for the hospital in Vernon

France, Vernon, 13th century, last quarter

parchment

140 leaves

245 × 180 mm

Latin, French

1 (ff. 1r–1v) List of land

Incipit: Ci sont les terres de lespinoy qui appartiennent alostel dieu de vernon

Explicit: Le courtil deuant laporte C xiiii perches

Note: f. 2: blank.

2 (ff. 3r–140r) Book of rents for the hospital in Vernon

Incipit: Quicumque uoluerit scire modum et ordinacionem eorum que in isto libello continentur legat ea et videat que secuntur Continet autem iste libellus seu continere debet Redditus debitos domui dei de vernone

Explicit: Magistro Ricardo pele vnum quarterium mutonis ad ascensionem domini de domo que fuit Johannis trop cras

Note:

The manuscript contains many blank leaves to allow the list to be expanded. These leaves are ruled and sometimes provided with running titles. ff. 3r–6r: introduction.

f. 140v: blank.

Edition: Louis (1997).

Physical Description

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: LCI

Support: Parchment

Locus: RCI

Support: Paper

Watermark 1

RCI,

Motif: Beehive 1839

Leaf dimensions: 245 × 180 mm

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1r–140v

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 245 × 180 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in ink and pencil.

ff. 7r–140r: Running titles in black ink.

Collation

Formula: 1(8, lacks 1-2), 2-16(8), 17(8, lacks 7-8), 18(8)

Note: VisColl collation

Condition

Textblock

f. 22, f. 97: bottom half of leaf cut off.

Layout

Columns: 1

Ruled lines: 33

Written area: 180 × 125 mm

Note: Ruling in ink and lead. Pricking (slashes) in the margins.

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

(ff. 3r–140r)Cursiva antiquior.

Hand 2

(ff. 1r–1v)Textualis

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(LCI) Top of page, in black ink by a medieval hand: four lines of text in French; bottom left corner: National Library book label with current signum.

Textblock

(f. 3r) Manicule in the inner margin.

(f. 28r) Elaborate cross-like shape drawn in the outer margin in brown ink.

(ff. 35v, 67r, 107v–107v) Additions in the margin or after the main text in ink by one or several medieval hands. The first two are short additions, while the one on (f. 107v) is longer (8 lines).

(f. 107A) Parchment note attached to (f. 107v) with a metal pin (pin removed in the image). (f. 107Ar) contains 7 lines of text in French written by a medieval hand, (f. 107Av) is blank.

(f. 135r) Interlinear addition in French.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Main text in black ink. The first letter in a new pargraph consists of a captal placed in a separate column in the outer margin, e.g. (f. 3r).

Initials:

(f. 1r): Penwork initial C over 5 lines (+ extending above the line) in black ink, penwork initial over 2 lines below the larger initial. (f. 3r): opening plain initial Q over 3 lines in black with interior reserved shapes; a face drawn in the counter space (possibly a later addition) and a guide letter in the margin. (ff. 15r–140r): plain initials over 2-4 lines in black.

Binding

Description:

Medieval binding. Brown leather over wooden boards. 6 raised bands. LCO, top of page in black ink: ‘N^o 39. Reditus Domus Dei in vernone’. Spine, on a damaged label in ink: ‘St-s’, and in print: ‘II REDITUS DOMUS DEI DE VERNONE’; stamped: ‘A 239’; National Library book label with current signum.

Binding dimensions: 250 × 190 × 50 mm

Condition: Leather worn. Spine, the leather possibly a later repair. LCO and RCO, repairs with white leather; LCO, middle of cover, outer edge: 2 holes; upper part of cover: two nails (remnats of strap); LCO: several holes and marks from a knife on the cover.

Contemporary: Unknown

History

Origin

France, Vernon, 13th century, last quarter. For a discussion on the date see Louis (1997), p. VIIpage VII–VII.

Provenance

The manuscript later belonged to Paul Petau, from whom it was acquired by Queen Christina and brought to Sweden. The signum on the LCO corresponds to the catalogue of 1734 (125e), where it is listed as:‘ Phil. in 4^o no 39’.

In 1997 the manuscript was on loan to Vernon.