Appendix: Excerpts from the Account Books of the Church of Sainte-Madeleine of Troyes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 March 2023
Summary
YEARS 1425 – 26
Item, for the purchase of four ells of heavy cloth to line the second panel of the highwarp tapestry of the Life of Mary Magdalene , 7s 8d t.
Item, to Poinsète the seamstress, for two days’ work to line the said panel, and provide the required thread, 7s 3d t .
Item, to Brother Didier, for delivering the written istoire of one of the panels of the Life of the Magdalene , 10s t .
Item, to Brother Didier, named before, for having made and delivered the written istoire of the fourth panel of the Life of Mary Magdalene , 10s t.
Item, to Jaquet the painter, for having made, in the month of November, a preliminary sketch on paper concerning the Life of Mary Magdalene , 10s t.
Item, for the wine of the business transacted in the month of November 1426 by the wardens, Brother Didier and Monsieur Jehan Fagot, to Thibaut Climent of the second panel of high-warp tapestry of the Life of Madame St. Magdalene , which was drunk while dining, for which was spent in all, 35s 7d t.
Item, to the seamstress, for assembling the cloth for the cartoon of the said second panel, for thread and for her work, 3s 6d t .
Item, to Jaquet the painter, for making the cartoon of the said second panel, for the contract made with him, and for the wine of the said transaction, paid, 115s t .
YEARS 1426 – 27
Item, for the wine given to the nephew of Thibaut Climent, who made the panels of high-warp tapestry of the Life of Madame St. Magdalene , 3s 4d t .
Item, paid Sir Guillaume Pestau? for the said Thibaut Climent, Jaquet the painter, and Jehan Odot, cabinetmaker, for the wine transferred to Thibaut for one of the panels of the high-warp tapestry of the said Life of Madame St. Mary Magdalene , 10s t .
Item, to the said Jehan Odot, cabinetmaker, for having made and installed some wooden bars in the choir of the said church for hanging the said panels of the high-warp tapestry of the said Life of Madame St. Mary Magdalene , 25s t.
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- The Troyes MémoireThe Making of a Medieval Tapestry, pp. 177 - 180Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010