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Senate House Library, University of London

French mining legislation


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 119

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: French mining legislation

Date(s): [1761]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Information not available at present.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volumes containing a selection of legislation and concessions given for the exploitation of French mines, compiled by 'le Sr Bruyard', Senior Clerk of [Daniel Charles] Trudain [de Montigny, Comptroller of Finances, Director of Bridges and Embankments], 1758, with details of legislation from 1413-1761. Includes a historical survey, a chronological table of legislation and concessions, general dispositions for the exploitation of the mines, and legislation and concessions for mining in each généralité. There is also printed matter bound into each volume, mainly comprising government edicts relating to the subject.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French

System of arrangement:

Two volumes.

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. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

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.

Physical characteristics:

Manuscript quartos. Bound in calf.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) 2nd edition, and NCA rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names (1997).

Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Legal systems | Law
Legislation | Law
Mining

Personal names
Bruyard | fl 1758 | Mr | clerk
Montigny | Daniel Charles Trudaine | de | fl 1758 | Comptroller of Finances, Director of Bridges and Embankments x de Montigny | Daniel

Corporate names

Places
France | Western Europe | Europe