Accession number
MS M.300
Object title
Oath of office for coiners and minters of Avignon and register of officials.
Created
Avignon, France, ca. 1411.
Binding
French 20th-century brown morocco with white doublures, gilt-tooled by Cuzin; lettered: Le livre des monnayeurs d'Avignon, 1371-1591.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
57 leaves (1 column, 24 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 234 x 175 mm
Provenance
Executed for an official of the mint, "cuditor"; space left for insertion of a name on fol. 18; Crozet Collection, Marseille; Damase Arband Collection; sold by the bookseller Lucien Gougy (Paris, Nov. 1905); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Ludovic Badin in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Avignon, France, ca. 1411; entries continue until 1591.
The French text may be in Provençal.
Decoration: 2 full-page miniatures, numerous arms of popes and others connected with the mint.
The French text may be in Provençal.
Decoration: 2 full-page miniatures, numerous arms of popes and others connected with the mint.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and French
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