Feuillet d’un registre médiéval de comptes d’un prince pour l’achat de bonnets - 1480
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Parchment page excerpt from a medieval prince's accounts book recording bonnet purchases, circa 1480, in French, originating from France, measuring 30 by 28 cm, in poor condition.
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Parchment leaf excerpt from a medieval account register of a prince (possibly Charles VIII), concerning the purchase of hats. Around 1480-1490. Tear reaching the text (without loss) and stains.
Audit Gillet Dostum, merchant hatter in Paris, the sum of one hundred solz tournois for four fine black double-lined hats bought from him on the 16th day of the month of August [...]. Audit Thibault Tardif, mercer [...], the sum of twenty solz tournois for a long-collared black hat purchased from him on the 16th day of this present month of August and delivered to Master Jehan Bertran, master of the wardrobe, to serve the said lord [...].
It is quite possible that these accounts relate to King Charles VIII's wardrobe, as Jehan Bertran was at that time 'secretary of the king and master of his wardrobe', and the accounts of Anne of Brittany, his wife and Queen of France, reveal that Thibault Tardif was one of her regular suppliers. He is particularly listed among the suppliers of the 'queen's chamber furnishings during her first confinement'.
Rare document
Kept on a large sheet of paper bearing this old inscription: 'Year 1486. Fragment of an expense account of the house of King Charles VI [sic]. Bonnet, collar... purchased'.
Parchment leaf excerpt from a medieval account register of a prince (possibly Charles VIII), concerning the purchase of hats. Around 1480-1490. Tear reaching the text (without loss) and stains.
Audit Gillet Dostum, merchant hatter in Paris, the sum of one hundred solz tournois for four fine black double-lined hats bought from him on the 16th day of the month of August [...]. Audit Thibault Tardif, mercer [...], the sum of twenty solz tournois for a long-collared black hat purchased from him on the 16th day of this present month of August and delivered to Master Jehan Bertran, master of the wardrobe, to serve the said lord [...].
It is quite possible that these accounts relate to King Charles VIII's wardrobe, as Jehan Bertran was at that time 'secretary of the king and master of his wardrobe', and the accounts of Anne of Brittany, his wife and Queen of France, reveal that Thibault Tardif was one of her regular suppliers. He is particularly listed among the suppliers of the 'queen's chamber furnishings during her first confinement'.
Rare document
Kept on a large sheet of paper bearing this old inscription: 'Year 1486. Fragment of an expense account of the house of King Charles VI [sic]. Bonnet, collar... purchased'.
Details
Era
1400-1900
Subject
History
Number of Books
1
Height
30 cm
Width
28 cm
Title
Feuillet d’un registre médiéval de comptes d’un prince pour l’achat de bonnets
Condition
Poor
Year
1480
Language
French
Original language
Yes
Autographed by a famous person
No
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