Stanford University, Manuscripts Division

Collection context

Summary

Title:
Album palaeographicum... ,
Dates:
1285-1629
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.

About this collection guide

Date Prepared:
© 1999
Date Encoded:
Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, 1999 June 4. Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Steven Mandeville-Gamble.

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

Contents

13th/14th Century French Documents

Contents

Unidentified

Unidentified

Background

Note:

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

Document, 13th/14th c.

Unidentified

Document, 14th c.

Contract regarding farm land. Grosbois-en-Montagne 1318. In Bourgogne dialect.

Record of sale. Breuil-Gersoy, Basses Pyrenees 1382. In Gascogne dialect.

Marriage contract 1367.

Record of sale 1365.

Document 1367.

Expense record of a ducal administrator ca. 1330.

Directions for the use of military funds. Clermont, France 1390.

Military order issued by Charles VI of France 1395.

15th Century French Documents

Contents

Rental contract of a textile merchant in Metz, Jehan Theuron ca. 1420.

Unidentified

Document 1465.

Report on the revenues of forest land. Longchamps, Andelys 1409.

Letter of vassalage. A. de Sales 1410. In French dialect.

Document. St. Victor 1452.

Rental contract. Villarceau 1482.

16th and 17th Century French Documents

Contents

Record of sale 1504.

Unidentified

Will. Provence 1546. In Provencal dialect.

Marriage contract. Azomar 1565. In Languedoc dialect.

Document. Gorre, near Metz 1575.

Document. St. Jean, Alsace 1597.

Legal document relating to Charles II, Duke of Lorraine. 1598.

Letter of vassalage of Jean Fourneau. 19 April 1600.

Document regarding an inheritance. Metz 1627.

Spanish documents, relating to property in or near Cordoba

Contents

Record of sale. 1400.

Marriage contract. Villamediana 1402.

Record of the sale of a house. Berlanga 1414.

Contract regarding a house, concluded between F. and G. Ruik from Villamediana 1420.

Contract about the division of property (pre-nuptial agreement?) 1425.