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Title

Lettres, memoires, titres, et actes concernans les chanceliers et gardes des seaux sic de France, leur origine, erections, droits, et honneurs appartenans aux dites charges

Call number

Ms. Codex 1012
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3782701
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3782701

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Middle French, with a few early records in Latin

Origin

Date

after 1633

Place

France

Summary

A transcription of records concerning the offices of chancellor and minister of justice (garde des sceaux) in chronological order, from the 13th century to ca. 1633. A table of contents detailing each record precedes the records.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. i recto); date based on latest dated records.
   

Extent

368 leaves : 299 x 182 (220 x 105) mm. bound to 307 x 220 mm

Foliation

Paper, v (contemporary paper) + 368 + iv (contemporary paper); [xvi], 1-352; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf with the arms of the Feydeau de Brou family.

Layout

Written in 22 long lines; frame-ruled in drypoint.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Bound for François or Denis I. (fl. 1620-1640) Feydeau de Brou, both affiliated with the Parlement de Paris.
   
• A letter from L. Farjas laid in the book indicates that he gave it as a gift to an unknown recipient.
   
• Purchased, 1964.
   

Subjects topical

• France.--Garde des sceaux
• France.--Grande Chancellerie
• Justice, Administration of--France--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Government records
• Manuscripts, French--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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