Lescalopier family estate records, 1703-1793.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Lescalopier (Family : Liancourt, France)

Contributor:

Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Launay, Pierre de, -1703.

Launay, Pierre de.

Collin, César-Emmanuel, 18th century.

Collin, César-Emmanuel.

Lescalopier, César-Charles, 1671-1753.

Lescalopier, César-Charles.

Lescalopier, Gaspard-César-Charles, 1706-1792.

Lescalopier, Gaspard-César-Charles.

Inheritance and succession--France--History--18th century--Sources.

Inheritance and succession.

Personal property--France.

Personal property.

France--History--18th century--Sources.

France.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

estate inventories

minutes (administrative records)

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold at auction by Salorges Enchères (Nantes), 29 June 2019, lot 271.

Sold by Adam Weinberger Books (New York), New York Book Fair, 6 March 2020.

Physical Description:

3 items (19, 129, 34 leaves)

Place of Publication:

1703-1793.

Language Note:

In French.

Summary:

Three 18th-century estate inventories with associations to the Lescalopier family, which in the second half of the 18th century held the seigneurie of Liancourt in the Somme department in northern France. All three have their year marked in ink on their first page by the same hand, suggesting that they were together in an archive. As legal documents they are written on papier timbré (paper with tax stamps). The first is an inventory of the personal property of Pierre de Launay, governor of Corbeil, dated 29 November 1703, 19 leaves in folio format. César-Charles Lescalopier and Anne Geneviève Charrier Lescalopier (wife of César-Charles; step-granddaughter of Pierre de Launay) are mentioned in the discussion of the distribution of the estate (partage, f. 1v) that precedes the inventory. The 1703 inventory is incomplete, lacking its last leaf. The second and most extensive manuscript is a procès-verbal of the sale of the personal property of César-Emmanuel Collin de Lessart, dated 16 February 1748, 129 leaves in folio format. César-Charles Lescalopier was the nephew and heir of César-Emmanuel Collin and was involved in the proceedings (f. 3v). The procès-verbal is a detailed account of the sale with a notarial signature certifying the contents (f. 127v), possibly of Denis François Grosteste, the authority conducting the auction (huissier commissaire priseur au Chatelet de Paris, f. 4r). The amount of the final bid and the name and street of the purchaser are recorded for each item sold. The third is an inventory of the property of Gaspard-César-Charles Lescalopier conducted in the presence of his children after his death in 1792, dated 1793, 34 leaves in quarto format. The context of Revolutionary France is reflected in references to Gaspard-César-Charles Lescalopier as Citoien Lescalopier (for example, f. 4v, 5v). The last item in the inventory is 300 volumes from the library valued at 900 livres and the total value of Lescalopier's estate is assessed at over 22,000 livres (f. 34r).

Contents:

1. Pierre de Launay inventory, 1703

2. Vente après le deces de Monsieur Cézar Emmanuel Collin de Lessart, 1748

3. Etat estimatif des meubles et effets mobiliers dependant de la succession de Gaspard Cesar Charles Lescalopier ... , 1793.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 1448.

OCLC:

1246445385