37 private legal documents mostly relating to sales of land and other property, assignments of income, and issues of guardianship. Categories of documents include papers of the Basire family (1657-1720); legal papers on subjects such a case against Charles Verrier, biens des religionnaires fugitifs, wills, rents, guardianships, and trial records (1685-1776); commercial papers concerning sales of property, including a printer's shop (1694-1789); marriage contracts (1695-1726); and a contract "relatif à la guérison d'un cancer" (1694). Many of the documents are written on parchment. A 19th-century cover page is bound in before each document or group of documents.
211 leaves : parchment and 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:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Paper 211; [1-211]; 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, 1657-1789 (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.4
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