Details

Other Title:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1000

Subjects:

Alençon (France) -- Economic conditions.
France -- Economic conditions -- 17th century.
France.
Economic conditions.
France -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
France -- Social conditions -- 17th century.
Social conditions.
France -- Social conditions -- 18th century.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.
Codices.
Contracts.
Legal documents.
Marriage records.

Language:

French.

Summary:

37 private legal documents mostly relating to sales of land and other property, assignments of income, and issues of guardianship. Categories of documents include papers of the Basire family (1657-1720); legal papers on subjects such a case against Charles Verrier, biens des religionnaires fugitifs, wills, rents, guardianships, and trial records (1685-1776); commercial papers concerning sales of property, including a printer's shop (1694-1789); marriage contracts (1695-1726); and a contract "relatif à la guérison d'un cancer" (1694). Many of the documents are written on parchment. A 19th-century cover page is bound in before each document or group of documents.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper 211; [1-211]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by many different hands.
Binding: 19th-century vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Alençon, 1657-1789 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Details and contents of the other volumes are described in individual analytical records, all of which may be found by searching the title UPenn Ms. Codex 1000.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), pp. 73-74 (Ms. French 93).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1000.

OCLC:

155927480