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

Title

Avis pour juger des inscriptions en faux ou comparaison des écritures et signatures, pour en faire et dresser les moyens, voir et découvrir toutes falsifications et faussetez

Authors

• Demelle, François

Call number

Ms. Codex 1173
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4306871
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4306871

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

circa 1691

Place

France

Summary

Manuscript copy of a treatise first printed in 1604, dealing with the work of the maîtres-écrivains, the guild in France responsible for the detection of forged or altered manuscript documents. Topics include the analysis of writing and signatures, the formation of letters, and various types of forgeries. On the verso of the front flyleaf someone has added a list of five "maistres ecrivains jurés experts": Louis Revel, 1679; Nicolas le Comte, 1686; Michel le Drans, 1688; Jean le Varignoy, 1690; Gabriel le Court, 1691. A table of contents in the same hand as the text (p. [121-122]) and a second, incomplete table of contents in a different hand (p. [123-124]) follow the text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (p. 1); author supplied from references for printed edition.
   

Extent

62 leaves : 152 x 78 (123 x 58) mm. bound to 158 x 91 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 62 + i (contemporary paper); 1-120, [iv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf.

Layout

Written in 25 long lines; text block outlined in red ink.

Decoration

Initials and occasional words in red ink; chapter headings decorated with flourishes.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand..

Provenance

• Previously owned by J. M. Auger (signature, p. 1)?
   
• Sold by Martayan Lan (New York), 2008.
   

Subjects topical

• Legal documents--Identification--Early works to 1800
• Forgery--Early works to 1800
• Guilds--France

Genres

• Codices
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, French--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• 121 — Table of contents, p. 121

Decorations

• 1 — Decorated heading, p. 1
• 4 — Decoration, p. 4
• 5 — Decorated heading, p. 5
• 7 — Decorated heading, p. 7
• 8 — Decorated heading, p. 8
• 11 — Decorated heading, p. 11
• 13 — Decorated heading, p. 13
• 14 — Decorated heading, p. 14
• 21 — Decorated heading, p. 21
• 25 — Decorated heading, p. 25
• 28 — Decorated heading, p. 28
• 30 — Decorated heading, p. 30
• 32 — Decoration, p. 32
• 33 — Decorated heading, p. 33
• 46 — Decorated heading, p. 46
• 48 — Decorated heading, p. 48
• 55 — Decorated heading, p. 55
• 59 — Decorated heading, p. 59
• 64 — Decorated heading, p. 64
• 70 — Decorated heading, p. 70
• 79 — Decorated heading, p. 79
• 81 — Decorated heading, p. 81
• 85 — Decorated heading, p. 85
• 91 — Decorated heading, p. 91
• 104 — Decorated heading, p. 104