[Documents of Alençon] Volume 6

Alternate Title:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1000

Timespan:

17th century; 18th century; Revolution, 1789-1799

Date:

1615/1797

Description:

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.

Language:

French

Subject:

Longueville, Henri II d'Orleans, duc de, 1595-1663; Economic conditions; History; Social conditions

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, European; codices (bound manuscripts); contracts; estate inventories; legal documents; marriage records

Physical Description:

336 leaves : paper; bound to 323 x 220 mm

Geographic Subject:

Alençon (France) -- Economic conditions; France -- Economic conditions -- 17th century; France; France -- Economic conditions -- 18th century; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799; France -- Social conditions -- 17th century; France -- Social conditions -- 18th century

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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.; French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1000 v.6

Collection:

Documents of Alençon