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[Recognoissances].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 978
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
- Subjects (All):
- Marnaz (France)--History--17th century.
- Marnaz (France).
- Genre:
- Codices.
- Legal documents.
- Notarial documents.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Manuscripts, French.
- Penn Provenance:
- Purchased, 1962.
- Physical Description:
- 51 leaves : paper ; 268 x 196 (215 x 120) mm bound to 268 x 207 mm
- Production:
- [Marnaz], [1660]
- Language Note:
- In Middle French.
- Summary:
- Copies of 15 recognizance documents from 1630, each followed by a notarial signature from 1660, pertaining to members of the Bontaz, Clerc, Cullaffrouz, and Gernet families, all from one parish in Marnaz, France. The last page contains a table of contents in a later hand of the 15 documents.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Fol. 1r-49r: "En premier le village de Marnaz recognoissa ... Francois filz de feu honneste Cullaffrouz dudict Marnaz, parroisse de Sionzier tesmoingte a ce requie."
- Foliation: Paper, 51; no foliation.
- Layout: Written in 25 long lines, with first and second lines damaged on every page.
- Decoration: Large initials on first page decorated with yellow and blue ink.
- Binding: Paper wrapper.
- Condition: Top edge damaged, probably eaten; current top edge of each page soft and fragile.
- Origin: Written in Marnaz in 1630.
- Cited in:
- Described in Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A(1). The Library Chronicle, 1969, p. 21 (Ms. French 105).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 978
- OCLC:
- 155928984
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