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Title

Noms de tous les officiers de la Chambre des Comptes qui ont possedes une meme charge avec la datte de leurs receptions

Authors

• France

Call number

Ms. Codex 935
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3570295
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3570295

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1756-1759

Place

Paris

Summary

Brief comments on the history of the Chambre des Comptes, followed by numerous chronological lists of the men holding each of the positions in the Chambre, including premier president, other presidents, maîtres, correcteurs, auditeurs, avocat général, procureur général, and greffiers. Indexes at the end are arranged by name within job categories.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

282 leaves : 355 x 232 mm. bound to 365 x 250 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 266 + ii (contemporary paper); f. [i], 2-3, p. 4-40, [v], 46-158, [vii], 166-226, [vii], 262-418, [vii], 426-556, [i], contemporary foliation and pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [1-532], modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. Some numbers have been trimmed.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf; decorated with gold on spine; leather disintegrating at cover edges.

Layout

Most pages divided into either three or four columns in red ink, but the columns are not strictly observed.

Decoration

The overall title page (f. 1r) and the title page for the index (p. 424) are decorated with elaborate pen-and-ink borders in red.

Provenance

• Acquired from Dorbon-Ainé, 1955.
   

Subjects topical

• France.--Chambre des comptes (Paris, France)
• Finance, Public--France--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Registers (lists)
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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