Memorie op de costumen van Antwerpen, overgesonden byde stadt ten versuecke van de seeren commissarissen, anno 1608.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Nanteuil, M. N., former owner.

Renson, A., former owner.

Language:

Dutch

French

Subjects (All):

Customary law--Belgium--Antwerp.

Customary law.

Antwerp (Belgium).

Belgium--Antwerp.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

customaries

Manuscripts, European.

Manuscripts, Dutch.

Penn Provenance:

Former owners include: M. N. Nanteuil, J. U. L. (inside upper cover, f. 1v); A. Renson (Zacour-Hirsch).

Purchased, 1960.

Physical Description:

307 leaves : paper ; 319 x 210 (255 x 158) mm bound to 328 x 218 mm

Production:

[Antwerp], [after 1608]

Language Note:

Dutch, with later notes in French.

Summary:

Customary law of Antwerp, including family and property law, divided into seven "volumes," each of which is subdivided into titles and articles. The 17th-century text is preceded by 19th-century notes on "Manuscrits sur la coutume d'Anvers déposés à la Bibliothèque de Bourgogne à Bruxelles" and followed by a 19th-century table of contents.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title and date from caption title (p. 1).

A notarial document in Dutch titled "London Certificatie" and dated 1796 which was laid into this volume has been cataloged separately in Miscellaneous Manuscripts under the name of the notary, Pieter Hendrik Hoogenbergh.

Pagination: Paper, 307 leaves; [x], 1-598, [viii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Script: Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand, with French text written in a 19th-century cursive hand.

Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped calf (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in Antwerp after 1608.

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), p. 48 (Ms. Flemish 2).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1006

OCLC:

155927502