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: 3767196
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3767196

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

ca. 1615-1797

Place

Alençon

Summary

42 private and public documents including many pertaining to official business of the Alençon municipality. Contents include letters of Henri d'Orléans (1658) and the duc de Longueville, relating to a treaty with England (1656); an arrêt du Parlement de Rouen (1756); documents relating to the seigneuries (fiefs) of Coutainville, Fontaine-Ettouppefour, Fontenay, Fresneau, Lonray, Montreuil, Ravigny, and Houssemain, one of which is printed (1641-1786); dépenses relatives au passage des gens de guerre (1653); fief des curés, paroisse de la Mesnière (1624); several documents relating to the French Revolution in the department of Orne; nomination of Jehan de Beaumont to the office of "bailli de Montigny" (1615?); inventories of estates (1646-1719); and a marriage contract for François de Matignon (1631). 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

336 leaves : bound to 323 x 220 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (19th-century paper) + 336 + vii (19th-century paper); [1-336]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

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
• Estate inventories
• Legal documents
• Marriage records

Licenses

• Text

  This description is ©2016 University of Pennsylvania Libraries. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

• Text

  All referenced images and their content are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/