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Biblissima authority file: https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q149788
Data Source: Wellcome Collection - Online Collections
Letter and papers. Mainly French, partly Latin. Contents:
1. Agreement for the admission of a leper to the leper hospital of Saint Ladre, Pontoise, 17 May 1412. The parties to the agreement were Jehan de Chamigny, a priest and Master of the hospital, and Jehan de Dusquesnoy, called le Bourguignon, the leper. The document relates the terms of admission to the hospital, which was at Aumône, near Pontoise, France. Membrane. 256 × 400 mm., 1 f.
2. Receipt for an annual payment by the King of France for the upkeep of the the lepers of Saint' Eutrope, Saintes, 15 July 1444. The receipt, signed by the monk Henry de Corbon, Prior of Jarnac, and Provost of Saint' Eutrope near the walls of Saintes, acknowledges an annual payment from the local agent of Bernart Carn, Receiver for the King in Saintonge and La Rochelle. Membrane. 82 × 294 mm., 1 f.
3. Letter from the Duke of Lorraine concerning a purported leper, c.1487. Letter from René II, Duke of Lorraine (1451-1508) to the Chapters of Saint-Dié, upholding the interests of Jehan Jacquemin of Saint-Dié, who had been wrongly accused of being a leper. Signed at Bar-Le-Duc, 12 April---7 [1487 or later]. 276 × 205 mm., 1 f., damaged.
4. Deed of sale to Jean Fauchery of a dwelling in the leper house at Uzes, 13 September 1521. Contemporary copy. Paper. 1 f.
5. Order for the admission of Denis Marceau to the leper hospital of Coulommiers, and for his maintenance, 10 September 1655. Order for Denis Marceau, a leper of the parish of Coulommiers in the diocese of Meaux. Signed by Claude Auvry, Bishop of Coutances, as Vicar General of Cardinal Antonio Barberini, Grand Aumônier of France. Produced in Paris. Membrane. 248 × 320 mm., 1 f.
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