Procès-verbal d'estimation des terres et seigneuries, 1⁰ de Puigareau, 2⁰ de Luains, 3⁰ de la Cognoniere, apartenantes a Mademoiselle M. Magdeleine-Angelique de Montmorency-Luxembourg / fait sous l'inspection du Sr. Chaillou, ingénieur en l'année 1769.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Poitou (France)--Economic conditions--18th century.

Poitou (France).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

estate inventories

financial records

Manuscripts, French.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Stamp on preliminary title page: Conseil d'état, 18 Avril 1823, No. 5627, Enregistrement.

Note in pencil inside front flyleaf suggests this volume was purchased by an earlier owner from Henri Saffroy, 1948.

Purchased, 1967.

Physical Description:

288 leaves : paper ; 315 x 199 (251 x 140) mm bound to 323 x 220 mm

Other Title:

Estimation de Puigareau faite sous l'inspection du Sieur Chaillou, ingenieur géographe du Roi.

Place of Publication:

[Poitiers?], 1769-1770.

Language Note:

French.

Summary:

Complete dossier concerning the division of a large estate between Magdeleine-Angelique de Montmorency-Luxembourg and her older sister Anne-Françoise Charlotte de Montmorency-Luxembourg, including an abstract of proceedings and detailed inventories of the assets and values of three of the territories apportioned to Magdeleine-Angelique.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page following table of contents (p. 1).

A preliminary title page appears before the table of contents: Estimation de Puigareau faite sous l'inspection du Sieur Chaillou, ingénieur géog[rap]he du Roi, 1769 (f. i recto).

Many pages marked with the stamp, "G. de Poitiers, Trois Sols."

Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 288 + i (contemporary paper); [xviii], 1-247, 247-248, 248-261, 263-455, 446-538, [ix]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Layout: Written in 25 long lines; ruled in lead.

Binding: Contemporary calf with gilt spine and gilt Montmorency-Luxembourg arms on covers (front cover damaged).

Origin: Written in Poitiers?, in 1769 (p. 1) and 1770 (p. 538).

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. 26 (Ms. French 125).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1013

OCLC:

155927529