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Title

Account book

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1210
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943226393503681
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4322639

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1776-1814

Place

Chailane, France

Summary

Account book of an unnamed merchant from Chailane (or Cheylane) and Murat in the Department of Cantal with short entries documenting amounts owed to the owner of the manuscript either as debts or for goods purchased. The most common items sold are wheat, rye, oats, and barley; the names of debtors, due dates of payments, sums owed, and weights of goods sold are indicated in the body of each entry. Most entries are dated and include acknowledgments of the receipt of payment in the left margins; there are numbers in the right margins. Many of the entries are crossed out. The dates of entries range from 1776 to 1814, with the most extensive records for the period 1777-1782. However, the entries are not in chronological order and many of the entries appear crossed out. In some instances, it appears that entries have been made out of chronological order below the original text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; latest date based on date supplied in the entries (p.375).
   
• Incipit: Du [2]8 [oct]obre 1779 [da]u a compte neuf ... (p.[i]r); Explicit: ... le setiers [m]o[n]te monte qual[r]enei[n]g [-]une livre a jeaque chabano[u] dela[m]ale (p.429).
   

Watermark

Initials S.B.U. on most leaves.

Extent

214 leaves : 375 x 230 (350 x 110) mm. bound to 380 x 230 mm

Foliation

Paper, 214 leaves; [i], 1-59, 59, 61-126, 125-126, 127-134, 136-179, 181-187, 189, 191-237, 237, 239-244, 244, 245-260, [261], 262-360, [i], 361-427, 429, 429; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Damaged contemporary parchment; writing on the inside and the outside of the upper cover; lower cover missing.

Script

Written in a cursive script, likely by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Purchased in 1973.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--France--18th century
• Accounting--France--19th century
• Merchants--France--Cantal
• Wheat trade--France
• Agriculture--Economic aspects--France--History

Genres

• Codices
• Account books
• Ledgers (account books)
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, French--19th century
• Manuscripts, European

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