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Title

Memorie op de costumen van Antwerpen, overgesonden byde stadt ten versuecke van de seeren commissarissen, anno 1608

Other related names

• Nanteuil, M. N, former owner
• Renson, A, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1006
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3771493
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3771493

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Dutch, with later notes in French

Origin

Date

after 1608

Place

Antwerp

Summary

Customary law of Antwerp, including family and property law, divided into seven "volumes," each of which is subdivided into titles and articles. The 17th-century text is preceded by 19th-century notes on "Manuscrits sur la coutume d'Anvers déposés à la Bibliothèque de Bourgogne à Bruxelles" and followed by a 19th-century table of contents.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and date from caption title (p. 1).
   
• A notarial document in Dutch titled "London Certificatie" and dated 1796 which was laid into this volume has been cataloged separately in Miscellaneous Manuscripts under the name of the notary, Pieter Hendrik Hoogenbergh.
   

Extent

307 leaves : 319 x 210 (255 x 158) mm. bound to 328 x 218 mm

Foliation

Paper, 307 leaves; [x], 1-598, [viii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary blind-stamped calf (Zacour-Hirsch).

Script

Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand, with French text written in a 19th-century cursive hand.

Provenance

• Former owners include: M. N. Nanteuil, J. U. L. (inside upper cover, f. 1v); A. Renson (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Purchased, 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Customary law--Belgium--Antwerp

Genres

• Codices
• Customaries
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, Dutch--17th century

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