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[Distribution of property].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 986
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Bayard, Jean.
- Language:
- French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
- Subjects (All):
- Real property--France.
- Real property.
- France.
- Saint-Geoire-en-Valdaine (France).
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- legal instruments
- Manuscripts, French.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Purchased, 1961.
- Physical Description:
- 30 leaves : paper ; 288 x 175 mm bound to 300 x 198 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Saint-Geoire-en-Valdaine (France)], [between 1586 and 1592]
- Language Note:
- Middle French.
- Summary:
- Records of property distributed by Jean Bayard between 1586 and 1592, with Bayard's signature at beginning and end. The first entry was written and signed in the house of Claude de Gaudet in St. Geoyre, near Grenoble.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 30 + i (modern paper); [1-30]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
- Script: Written in a cursive script.
- Binding: Modern cloth (University of Pennsylvania, early 1960s). Pages have stained edges and damage in lower corner; ink has bled through the outer pages.
- Origin: Written in Saint-Geoire-en-Valdaine between 1586 and 1592 (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 69 (Ms. French 72).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 986
- OCLC:
- 155929002
- Online:
- Collation model
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