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Penned on a Sunday -A Jan. 25, 1333.

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Penned on a Sunday -A Jan. 25, 1333.
Manuscript bearing complete date in 1333, France, in Latin, on vellum, 8 x 13 3/4 oblong. Surprisingly, Jan. 25, 1333 was a Sunday, and day of the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. Concerning a deed which Grimaldus, Notary Royal, received by the late Pierre Bernardonis. Bernardonis is mentioned in a book translated from Latin to French in 1585, ...Roy de Navarre Henry III (King of Navarre, later known as Henry IV, King of France). Ancient thread reinforcement at bottom; heavily dampstained in bottom area about 2 x 11, about four lines of the coffee-and-cream ink mostly faded in this portion, balance very good and clean. A stalwart survivor of centuries of war, heat, cold, and elements - and of King Philip VI's Hundred Years' War, triggered four years later. Mediaeval manuscripts with full dates are uncommon.