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[Documents of Alençon] Volume 5.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 1000 v.5
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Alençon (France)--Economic conditions.
- Alençon (France).
- France--Economic conditions--17th century.
- France.
- Economic conditions.
- France--Economic conditions--18th century.
- France--Social conditions--17th century.
- Social conditions.
- France--Social conditions--18th century.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, French.
- Manuscripts, European.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- contracts
- legal documents
- marriage records
- Physical Description:
- 296 leaves : paper and parchment ; bound to 270 x 200 mm
- Contained In:
- Documents of Alençon.
- Other Title:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1000
- Place of Publication:
- [Alençon], [1601-1830?]
- Language Note:
- French.
- Summary:
- 52 private and public legal documents including many pertaining to official business of the Alençon municipality. Contents include records from the trial involving the commune of Agon and the noble Gabillet (1786); documents concerning properties at Agon, Coutainville, Blainville, Neuilly-le-Bisson, Beauvain, and Alençon proper (1601-1830); documents concerning people of different trades (1700-1732); financial documents (1662-1723); and marriage contracts (17th century-1743). A few of the documents are written on parchment. A 19th-century cover page is bound in before each document or group of documents.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Foliation: Paper, iii (19th-century paper) + 296 + v (19th-century paper); [1-296]; 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, ca. 1601-1830 (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.
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), pp. 73-74 (Ms. French 93).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1000.
- OCLC:
- 155927482
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