Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Documents of Alençon

Call number

Ms. Codex 1000
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3767038
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3767038

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1657-1789

Place

Alençon

Summary

37 private legal documents mostly relating to sales of land and other property, assignments of income, and issues of guardianship. Categories of documents include papers of the Basire family (1657-1720); legal papers on subjects such a case against Charles Verrier, biens des religionnaires fugitifs, wills, rents, guardianships, and trial records (1685-1776); commercial papers concerning sales of property, including a printer's shop (1694-1789); marriage contracts (1695-1726); and a contract "relatif à la guérison d'un cancer" (1694). Many of the documents are written on parchment. A 19th-century cover page is bound in before each document or group of documents.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Details and contents of the other volumes are described in individual analytical records, all of which may be found by searching the title UPenn Ms. Codex 1000.
   

Extent

211 leaves : bound to 270 x 200 mm

Foliation

Paper 211; [1-211]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Parchment and paper

Binding

19th-century vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).

Script

Written in various cursive scripts by many different hands.

Genres

• Manuscripts, French--17th century
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European
• Codices
• Contracts
• Legal documents
• Marriage records

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