De Cusance family papers

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0096 MS865
Held at	: Senate House Library, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections ›
Full title	: De Cusance family papers
Date(s)	: 1360-1867
Level of description	: fonds
Extent	: 9 items
Name of creator(s)	: de Cusance family
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Details of the creator were unknown at the time of the compilation of this finding aid.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Documents, 1360-1867, concerning the family of de Cusance, of Franche Comté. The documents include letters on the family's expenses, sales, marriage, appointments to offices, a genealogy of the family and a printed fragment announcing a requiem mass. Also contains an inventory of items, made by the Archives Générales de la Noblesse, Paris.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
French and Latin

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. See Archivist for details. 24 hours notice is necessary for research visits.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Finding aids:

Collection level description. Hard-copy catalogue also available in the Library's Palaeography Room.Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Gift of Dr Geoffrey John de Cusance Mead.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Imported from the Senate House catalogue and edited by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 2009.