Stanford University, Manuscripts Division

Album Palaeographicum, 1285-1629, 1285-1629

Album palaeographicum..., 1285-1629

Summary

Extent:
44 documents
Language:
[code "fr" not found in ISO 639-2 list].
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item] Album palaeographicum... , M0388, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

33 French documents, dating from the 13th to 17th centuries, pertaining primarily to property and monetary transactions, including among other items records of sale, marriage contracts, rental contracts, expense records, and a will; also several documents issued by feudal authorities. Many of these documents are in regional dialect. 10 Spanish documents relating to property in or near Cordoba, dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. One political document from the Council of Basel, ca. 1420.

Custodial history:

Purchased, 1977.

Arrangement:

Chronological, by language

Please note that oversize items, marked by an asterisk in this guide, are stored in the map case, separately from the rest of the collection.

Access and use

Restrictions:

None.

Terms of access:

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item] Album palaeographicum... , M0388, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:
Department of Special Collections, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6004, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022
specialcollections@stanford.edu
Website
13th/14th Century French Documents
Contents
Unidentified
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 1a
Unidentified
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 1b
Note:

[English hand, writing in S.W. France (Aquitania)]

Background

Note:

[English hand, writing in S.W. France (Aquitania)]

Document, 13th/14th c.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 1c
Unidentified
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 2a-c
Document, 14th c.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 2d
Contract regarding farm land. Grosbois-en-Montagne 1318. In Bourgogne dialect.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 3a
Record of sale. Breuil-Gersoy, Basses Pyrenees 1382. In Gascogne dialect.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 3b
Marriage contract 1367.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 4
Record of sale 1365.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 5a
Document 1367.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 5b
Expense record of a ducal administrator ca. 1330.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 6a
Directions for the use of military funds. Clermont, France 1390.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 6b
Military order issued by Charles VI of France 1395.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 6c
15th Century French Documents
Contents
Rental contract of a textile merchant in Metz, Jehan Theuron ca. 1420.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 6d
Unidentified
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 7a-c
Document 1465.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 7d
Report on the revenues of forest land. Longchamps, Andelys 1409.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 8 *
Letter of vassalage. A. de Sales 1410. In French dialect.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 9
Document. St. Victor 1452.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 10
Rental contract. Villarceau 1482.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 11a
16th and 17th Century French Documents
Contents
Record of sale 1504.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 11b
Unidentified
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 12
Will. Provence 1546. In Provencal dialect.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 13 *
Marriage contract. Azomar 1565. In Languedoc dialect.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 14
Document. Gorre, near Metz 1575.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 15
Document. St. Jean, Alsace 1597.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 16
Legal document relating to Charles II, Duke of Lorraine. 1598.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 17
Letter of vassalage of Jean Fourneau. 19 April 1600.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 18 *
Document regarding an inheritance. Metz 1627.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 19
Spanish documents, relating to property in or near Cordoba
Contents
Record of sale. 1400.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 20
Marriage contract. Villamediana 1402.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 21
Record of the sale of a house. Berlanga 1414.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 22 *
Contract regarding a house, concluded between F. and G. Ruik from Villamediana 1420.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 23
Contract about the division of property (pre-nuptial agreement?) 1425.
Containers:
Box 1, Folder 24