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[Documents of Alençon] Volume 1

Timespan:
17th century; 18th century
Date:
1685
Description:
Inventories of the estates or possessions of Louis Edet, avocat (1685); Pierre Demante, chapelier (1706); Nicolas Beslaut, marchand (1710); René Morel, marchand (1710); Louis de St. Denys, écuyer (1711); Gaspard Marchand, marchand étamier (1715); Isaac Enjubault, procureur (1712); Jean Guernon, guarde (1712); Louis du Hamel, prêtre (1715); Jacques Pavard, chandellier (1715); Jacques Prodhomme, marchand (1716); Paul François Hebert, marchand (1718); inventaire des prisonniers criminels et civils (1724); and Thomas Renier, drapier (1726). A 19th-century cover page is bound in before each document.
Language:
French
Subject:
Economic conditions; Social conditions
Resource Type:
Text
Form/Genre:
Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, European; Codices; Estate inventories
Physical Description:
293 leaves : paper; bound to 270 x 200 mm
Geographic Subject:
Alençon (France) -- Economic conditions; France -- Economic conditions -- 17th century; France; France -- Economic conditions -- 18th century; France -- Social conditions -- 17th century; France -- Social conditions -- 18th century
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Paper, iii (19th-century paper) + 293 + v (19th-century paper); [1-293]; 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, 1685-1726 (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.1
Collection:
Documents of Alençon