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Title

Extrait des coustumes generalles et particulieres de France et des Gaulles en ce qui concerne les servitudes reelles, les edifices et bastiments, et le fait des rapports des jurez en toutes matieres

Authors

• Quirot, Pierre

Call number

Ms. Codex 942
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3579268
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3579268

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Excerpts mostly in Middle French with commentary in French

Origin

Date

between 1709 and 1732

Place

France

Summary

Excerpts concerning servants and property from the 16th- and 17th-century customary law of numerous French communities, with early 18th-century commentary. A "Table des Coustumes" (ff. 9-12), arranged alphabetically by municipality or region, precedes the excerpts, and alphabetical subject indices, "Table de Matieres de Servitudes" (ff. 333-350) and "Table des Arrests" (ff. 351-360), follow them.

Notes

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

Extent

366 leaves : 366 x 235 (257 x 135) mm. bound to 371 x 242 mm

Foliation

Paper, xv + 614 + xxxiii; 1-134, 134-135, 135-136, 136, 136-370, 370, 370-371, 371, 371-382, 382, 382-383, 383, 383-408, 408-409, 409-443, 443, [iii], 444-446, [ii], 447-614; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century calf (Zacour-Hirsch).

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Purchased in 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Customary law--France
• Domestics--Legal status, laws, etc.--France--History
• Indentured servants--Legal status, laws, etc.--France--History
• Master and servant--France--History
• Property--France--History

Genres

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

Licenses

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