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Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1537-1541.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 12 Folder 47
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Merles, Francois de.
- Language:
- Occitan (post-1500)
- Subjects (All):
- Bus, Baltesar.
- Bus, Batista.
- Jews--France--Avignon--History.
- Jews.
- History.
- Avignon (France)--History.
- Avignon (France).
- France--Avignon.
- Genre:
- Financial records.
- Manuscripts, French.
- Manuscripts, Occitan.
- Penn Provenance:
- Appears in Henri Saffroy's bulletin 83 (1973), no. 7889.
- Purchased, 1973.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (12 leaves)
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 12 Folder 47
- Place of Publication:
- 1537-1541.
- Language Note:
- In Occitan (modern Provençal).
- Summary:
- Sewn paper gathering containing financial records for individuals in Avignon, such as Batista and Baltesar Bus (f. 1r), and also for the Jewish community of Avignon (f. 4r). The first records to appear are from 1537, although chronologically earlier records are copied later. On the back of the document is written the note, "Memoires escriptes par feu mon grandpere Mr. Francois de Merles."
- Cited in:
- Described in Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement B. The Library Chronicle, 1981, p. 13 (Ms. French 144).
- OCLC:
- 79414234
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