StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number MS PHILL/23
TitleVaud Franchises
Date14th century
Date217th century
DescriptionManuscript volume, 17th century: Franchises du Pays de Vaud (Vaud franchises). Inside the front cover is the name 'Pierre Laurier, 1624'. The vellum cover bears psalms with musical notation in a 14th-century hand.
Extent1 volume containing 126 leaves
AdminHistoryVaud (in German Waadt) canton is in southwestern Switzerland, bordering France and the Jura Mountains to the west and Lake Geneva to the south.
CustodialHistoryThe manuscript belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), baronet, an antiquary and bibliophile whose collection included c60,000 manuscripts of various kinds, some relating to the administration of Swiss towns. Various manuscripts were sold after Sir Thomas's death, some to the German government, and were dispersed to several libraries. Formerly Phillipps MS 1221.
AcquisitionThe Phillipps Manuscripts at University College London were given to the College by the German government in 1912.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAidsDorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935); handlist at University College London Special Collections.
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