Details

Subjects:

Customary law.
Vaud (Switzerland).

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Customaries.
Laws.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

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).
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.
Layout: Written in 30-35 long lines; left and right margins ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
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.
Binding: Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch); upper cover semi-detached.
Origin: Written in western Switzerland (Vaud or Fribourg canton) before 1747; title page may be the latest element, dated 1747.

Penn 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.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 59 (Ms. French 30).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 940.

OCLC:

155925543

Access Restriction:

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