[Documents of Alençon] Volume 4.; UPenn Ms. Codex 1000

Abstract:

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.

Timespan:

France -- 18th century.; France -- 17th century.; Alençon (France); France -- 18th century.; France.; France -- 17th century.

Date:

1657

Identifier:

9937670383503681; (OCoLC)ocn155927480; (OCoLC)155927480; (CStRLIN)PAUR05-B10023; (PU)3767038-penndb-Voyager

Language:

French

Publisher:

[Alençon], [1657-1789]

Subject:

Social conditions.; Economic conditions.; Manuscripts, French.; Marriage records.; Manuscripts, European.; Codices.; Contracts.; Legal documents.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

211 leaves : parchment and paper; bound to 270 x 200 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.; 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.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Written in Alençon, 1657-1789 (Zacour-Hirsch).; Script: Written in various cursive scripts by many different hands.; Binding: 19th-century vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).; Foliation: Paper 211; [1-211]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.; French.

Physical Location:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1000 v.4

Collection:

Documents of Alençon.