Details

Subjects:

Accounting -- France -- 18th century.
Accounting -- France -- 19th century.
Merchants -- France -- Cantal.
Wheat trade -- France.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- France -- History.
History.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
Wheat trade.
Merchants.
Accounting.
France -- History -- 18th century -- Economic aspects.
France -- History -- 19th century -- Economic aspects.
France.
France -- Cantal.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Account books.
Ledgers (account books)
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Summary:

Account book of an unnamed merchant from Chailane (or Cheylane) and Murat in the Department of Cantal with short entries documenting amounts owed to the owner of the manuscript either as debts or for goods purchased. The most common items sold are wheat, rye, oats, and barley; the names of debtors, due dates of payments, sums owed, and weights of goods sold are indicated in the body of each entry. Most entries are dated and include acknowledgments of the receipt of payment in the left margins; there are numbers in the right margins. Many of the entries are crossed out. The dates of entries range from 1776 to 1814, with the most extensive records for the period 1777-1782. However, the entries are not in chronological order and many of the entries appear crossed out. In some instances, it appears that entries have been made out of chronological order below the original text.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; latest date based on date supplied in the entries (p.375).
Incipit: Du [2]8 [oct]obre 1779 [da]u a compte neuf ... (p.[i]r); Explicit: ... le setiers [m]o[n]te monte qual[r]enei[n]g [-]une livre a jeaque chabano[u] dela[m]ale (p.429).
Pagination: Paper, 214 leaves; [i], 1-59, 59, 61-126, 125-126, 127-134, 136-179, 181-187, 189, 191-237, 237, 239-244, 244, 245-260, [261], 262-360, [i], 361-427, 429, 429; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script, likely by multiple hands.
Watermarks: Initials S.B.U. on most leaves.
Binding: Damaged contemporary parchment; writing on the inside and the outside of the upper cover; lower cover missing.
Origin: Written in Chailane, France between 1776 and 1814.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased in 1973.

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). Supplement B. Library Chronicle 45 (1981), p. 12 (Ms. French 143).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1210.

OCLC:

232629349

Access Restriction:

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