Details

Other Title:

Hebert sur Artois.

Subjects:

Customary law -- France -- Artois.
Property -- France.
Property.
Customary law.
France.
France -- Artois.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Customaries.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Summary:

After a brief introduction, the work consists of 201 articles of customary law, almost all of which are followed by commentary. A subject index begins on p. 715. Subjects include property, inheritance, debt, marriage, and the legal status of women and nobles.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 3r); other title, Hebert sur Artois, is from title page (f. 2r); date based on the latest date in the work (1731, p. 67) and a date in marginalia (1744, p. 569).
Pagination: Paper; [iv], 1-53, 52-721, [xxxvi]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.
Layout: Written in 26-29 long lines; margins pressed into paper.
Binding: Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in France after 1731.

Penn Provenance:

Note on title page: Appartenant au Sr. Le Fran, greffier de l'abbaye de St. Vaast (p. iii).
Purchased, 1959.

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. 61 (Ms. French 40).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 945.

OCLC:

155925575

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