Details

Other Title:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1000

Subjects:

Longueville, Henri II d'Orleans, duc de, 1595-1663.
Alençon (France) -- Economic conditions.
France -- Economic conditions -- 17th century.
France.
Economic conditions.
France -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
History.
France -- Social conditions -- 17th century.
Social conditions.
France -- Social conditions -- 18th century.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

French.

Summary:

42 private and public documents including many pertaining to official business of the Alençon municipality. Contents include letters of Henri d'Orléans (1658) and the duc de Longueville, relating to a treaty with England (1656); an arrêt du Parlement de Rouen (1756); documents relating to the seigneuries (fiefs) of Coutainville, Fontaine-Ettouppefour, Fontenay, Fresneau, Lonray, Montreuil, Ravigny, and Houssemain, one of which is printed (1641-1786); dépenses relatives au passage des gens de guerre (1653); fief des curés, paroisse de la Mesnière (1624); several documents relating to the French Revolution in the department of Orne; nomination of Jehan de Beaumont to the office of "bailli de Montigny" (1615?); inventories of estates (1646-1719); and a marriage contract for François de Matignon (1631). A 19th-century cover page is bound in before each document or group of documents.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, iii (19th-century paper) + 336 + vii (19th-century paper); [1-336]; 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, ca. 1615-1797 (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:

155927484