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Oath of office for coiners and minters of Avignon and register of officials.

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.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and French
Century
Classification