MS. Douce 182

Summary Catalogue no.: 21756

Ordinances of Charles VI of France for the regulation of single combat, issued in 1406

Rubric: Sensieut la chartre de Gaige de Bataille

Incipit: Charles, par la grace de Dieu, roy de France a tous ceulx, qui ces presentes lettres verront salut. Savoir faisons, que comere ca en arriere pour nos guerres et autres justes causes pour le commun prouffit de nostre royaulme nous eussions deffendu generalment a tous noz subgetz toutes manieres de guerres et de tous gaige de bataille.

Explicit: Cest a dire, que se les lettres des noms des bataillans quilz apporterent de baptesme prins en latin se remenvent pares en per on en nomper le demandeur sera vaineu. / Cy fine la chartre de gaige de bataille.

Fols cxlii-cli of a larger volume

Language(s): Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 12 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 14.375 × 10.875 in.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 718, Pl. LV

Good miniature: fol. 2 has a double miniature of fighting on horseback and on foot

Border

Initial

History

Origin: c. 1460–1470 ; France

Provenance and Acquisition

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Description adapted (August 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897) and the Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, esq. to the Bodleian Library (1840). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966)

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 547

Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, p. 30