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Etat de la recherche de la noblesse de la generalite d'Alencon / faite par Msr de Marle, intendant ... du Conseil du 22 mars 1666.

Author/Creator:
Marle, de, Monsieur.
Publication:
[Alençon], [1666-1667]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
87 leaves : paper ; 369 x 220 mm bound to 378 x 238 mm
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Nobility -- France -- Normandy.
Nobility.
Alençon (France) -- Social conditions.
France -- Social conditions -- 17th century.
France.
Social conditions.
France -- Normandy.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
French.
Summary:
Lists of the noble families in Alençon and eight other parishes in the Normandy region of northwest France, arranged first alphabetically by parish and then alphabetically by surname, with notes on the status of their claim to nobility (p. 3-109), followed by an index by surname (p. 111-133) and a comparison of this copy of de Marle's work with another unknown copy of the same work (p. 1-29).
Contents:
1. p.1-133: Etat de la recherche de la noblesse de la generalite d'Alencon / M. de Marle.
2. p.1-29: Différences entre le recherche de Marle ci jointe et une autre copie de la même recherche.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. 1; two illegible words represented by the mark of omission); date based on latest date in work (e.g., p. 6).
Notes on the title page explain that the lists include ancient noble families, those who were referred to the Conseil, those who were condemned as usurpers, those who received noble status after 1614, and those who are exempt from the tax, and explain how these various categories are marked in the lists.
Pagination: Paper, ii (later paper) + 87 + ii (later paper); 1-133, [i], 1-29, [xi]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Binding: Half pigskin (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Alençon in 1666 and 1667.
Penn Provenance:
Bookplate inside front cover: Ex libris B[ar]on Du Charmel, No. 1504 (lion and crown, motto "Que Sçay Ie?").
Note in pencil inside front flyleaf suggests this volume was purchased by an earlier owner from Gaston or Henri Saffroy in 1949.
Purchased, 1968.
Cited in:
Described in Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A(1). Library Chronicle 35 (1969), pp. 28-29 (Ms. French 134).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1022
Contains:
Différences entre le recherche de Marle ci jointe et une autre copie de la même recherche.
OCLC:
155927872