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Add Ch 2607
- Record Id:
- 040-002118082
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002118036
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000808.0x0002ea
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165140591.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 2607
- Title:
- Order of Charles, Duke of Orléans, to Pierre Sauvage, his secretary, to pay for a complete set of armour
- Scope & Content:
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Charles, Duke of Orléans (b. 1394, d. 1465), orders Pierre Sauvage, his secretary and silversmith, to pay 83l. 7s. 6d. to Richard de Melleville, his armourer, for a complete set of steel armour for his use.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002118036
040-002118082 - Is part of:
- Add Ch 2562-2689 : ONE HUNDRED and twenty-nine similar documents, illustrative of the use of Armour, offensive and defensive, and of equipments,…
Add Ch 2607 : Order of Charles, Duke of Orléans, to Pierre Sauvage, his secretary, to pay for a complete set of armour - Hierarchy:
- 032-002118036[0046]/040-002118082
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Ch 2562-2689
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165140591.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1415
- End Date:
- 1415
- Date Range:
- 14 Sept 1415
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 140 x 315 mm.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France (?Orléans).
Provenance:
Jean-Baptiste-Anne-Geneviève Gagnare Joursanvault, Baron of Joursanvault (b. 1748, d. 1792), book collector, historian, patron, engraver: inscribed 'Arch[iv] de Joursanvault' on the reverse of the charter.
Purchased by the British Museum from Téchener, Paris, in Feb 1839, lot 668.
- Publications:
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Catalogue analytique des archives de M. le baron de Joursanvault, 2 vols (Paris: Techener, 1838), I, p. 107, no. 668.
Philip Contamine, Guerre, état et société à la fin du moyen âge: Études sur les armées des rois de France 1337–1494 (Paris: Mouton & Co., 1972), p. 657.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)