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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2024
Household accounts of Louis, Duke of Orléans, Paris, 20 May 1394–15 April 1402
London, British Library, Additional Charter 2916 [20 May 1394]
[Christ]ofle [sic] de la mer marchant genneuoys demour’ a par’ neuf Cens quatre vins deux frans dor pour vne arbalestre ou il y a trois dyamanz quatre Rubiz et dix grosses perles que madame la duchesse dorleans fist acheter de luj pour donn’ au dit mons’ le duc
Christophe de La Mer, Genoese residing in Paris, 992 gold francs for a crossbow(set) with three diamonds, four rubies, and ten large pearls which my Lady the Duchess of Orléans has bought from him to give to my said Lord the Duke
London, British Library, Additional Charter 2588 [9 May 1400] Je Colart de laon paintre et varlet de Chambre de mon s’ le duc dorleans Confesse auoir Receu Cinquante & huit frans pour et a cause dun harnoys de Joustes fait pour mon s’ le duc en la mani[er]e quil sensuit Cest assauoir selle pissi[er]e chanfraing & escu dorez dor et semiz de porc espy de paniture Et pardessus toutes ces choses ont este couu[er]s f ‘ en mani[er]e de haubregie ou dor gippe Et sur le heaume de mon s’ vn timbre de pl’ leue au Ront yssant dun Rosier Et sur la croupe du ch[ev]al de mon s’ vn porcespy […] au long et p[ar] dessus la maille dessus d[i]te tout seme de grans fueilles dorees a[…] celleme[n]t la croupi[er]e du dit ch[ev]al fa[it]e a maille lesquelles choses dessus d[i]ts ont es[t par] moy fa[it]es pour la so[m]me de iiij xx fr’
I, Colart de Laon, painter and valet de chambre to my Lord the Duke of Orléans, confess to having received 58 francs for, and because of, a jousting harness made for my Lord the Duke in the following manner – that is to say: saddle, peytral, shaffron, and shield gilded with gold and strewn with painted porcupines. And, above all these things, it was covered in the manner of hauberger's craft (i.e. mail) with gilt gypsum. And a crest of plumes raised around issuing from a rosebush on my Lord's helm. And a porcupine on the crupper of my Lord's horse […] along and above the aforesaid mail completely strewn with large gilt leaves […] only the crupper of this horse made of mail.
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