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Title

Le Coutumier du païs de Vaud

Authors

• Vaud (Switzerland)

Call number

Ms. Codex 940
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3576335
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3576335

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1747

Place

Switzerland

Summary

The customary law of the canton of Vaud, which was confirmed by the council of the town of Fribourg in 1649 and published in 1650. Among the many legal issues the customary law addresses are included procedural questions of sentencing, jurisdiction, and roles such as those of judge and prosecutor; family law including marriage and inheritance; and property law. A table of contents and an alphabetical index are at the end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 2r).
   

Extent

186 leaves : 333 x 212 (246 x 153) mm. bound to 341 x 217 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii, 1-155, [i], 156-164, [1-6], 164-165, [i, 7-23, v]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch); upper cover semi-detached.

Layout

Written in 30-35 long lines; left and right margins ruled in lead.

Decoration

Unidentified coat of arms on title page (f. ii recto) in pen and ink; the shield bears figures of eagles and interlinked triple rings, with a crown above and larger eagles on either side of the shield.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Former owners include: Georges Nicolas Reyff, 1739 (signature, f. i recto); E. Chatoney (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by Masson's catalog 24 (1956), item 834.
   

Subjects topical

• Customary law

Genres

• Codices
• Customaries
• Laws
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover