Memoire par abbregé des duchez et pairies de France. Duchez et pairies nouvelles tenues par des seigneurs particuliers ... [etc.].

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Nobility--France.

Nobility.

France.

France--History--17th century.

History.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, European.

Manuscripts, French.

Penn Provenance:

Note in pencil inside upper cover suggests this volume was purchased by an earlier owner from Saffroy, 1949.

Purchased from William Allen (Philadelphia, Penn.), 1967.

Physical Description:

156 leaves : paper ; 385 x 266 mm

Other Title:

Memoire des duchés et pairies de France

Place of Publication:

[France], [circa 1665]

Language Note:

French.

Summary:

Bound collection of memoires and a few letters concerning duchies and peerages in 17th-century France. The documents are on varied sizes of paper and in multiple hands and come from a variety of sources. Each of the nine documents has a 17th-century classification number in the upper left corner of its first leaf, but the classification scheme is unknown. Three of the documents have marginal notes identifying their source as Mss. de Bethune vol. 8944, referring to an unknown manuscript perhaps in the collection of Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully (1560-1641). The collection seems to have been compiled ca. 1665 (f. 71r, 93v), but most of the documents are from sources dating between 1624 and 1641.

Contents:

1. f.1r-22v: Memoire par abbregé des duchez et pairries de France, leur erections, suppressions et reunions d'aucunes d'icelles au domaine de la Couronne / Mr. D. P.

2. f.23r-54v: Duchez et pairies nouvelles tenues par des seigneurs particuliers.

3. f.55r-92v: Duchez et pairies reunies a la Couronne.

4. f.93r-126v: Memoire [des duchez et pairies].

5. f.127r-140v: Remarques sur ce qui s'est pratiqué a la cour de France.

6. f.141r-152v: Discours des rangs et presceances de France.

7. f.153r-154v: Quand on a commencé à se couvrir devant le roy.

8. f.155: Lettre au Sr. de Beaumont / Sr. de Villeroy.

9. f.156: Ceux qui ont droit de baiser les reines et filles de France.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger, based on the first two documents inthe collection; Zacour-Hirsch uses the title Memoire des duchés et pairies de France, which appears on a spine label that is probably a later addition.

Foliation: Paper, 156; [1-156]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; several of the documents are foliated or paginated internally.

Binding: 20th-century library cloth binding with older leather and gilt spine label.

Origin: Compiled in France, circa 1665.

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, pp. 26-27 (Ms. French 126).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1050

OCLC:

155930772