Le coustumier de Poictou
Subtitle: auecques la briefue declaration et co[n]corda[n]ce de chascun chapitre. Et les ordo[n]nances royaulx vieilles et nouuelles publiees a Paris de par le roy Loys XII de ce nom; le xiii iour du moys de iuing, lan mil.CCCC.xcix.
Contributors: Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Et sont a vendre en lostel Jehan de Marnef, dit du liege a lenseigne du pelican deua[n]t le palais a Poictiers
Published: 1501
Place of publication: Imprime a Paris, lan Mil cinq cens
Language: frm
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Customary law -- France -- Poitou.
Notes: Goff C-957
Claudin, A.  Hist. de l'imprimerie, II, p. 148
Hain-Copinger 5797
The work is a private compilation dating back to perhaps 1417 (an official codification of Poitou customary law occurred only in 1514). Cf. Filhol, René. Le Vieux coustumier de Poictou, 1956.
Colophon, leaf m6 verso: Cy finist le coustumier de poictou auec les ordo[n]na[n]ces royaulx vielles [et] nouuuelles ensemble la so[m]mere declaratio[n] des rubriches [con]tenues en ce p[re]sent liure. Imprime a Paris le dixiesme iour Dauril Mil. CCCCC. auant pasques. Andre B́ocard is named as the printer in Goff.
Signatures: a-e⁸ f-m⁶, A⁶ B⁴, ²A-C⁶ D⁴.
Title page printed in red and black, with large red woodcut cadelled initial.
Final section has separate title page, ²A1 recto: Les ordonnances royaulx nouuellment publiees a Paris de par le roy Loys xiie. de ce nom. Lw xiiie. iour du moys de Juing. Lan mil. CCCC.xcix. Transcribed from Harvard Law copy and transmitted by curator David Ferris.
LC copy imperfect: leaves ii and xxxiii, and gatherings A-D (22 leaves, ordonnances of Louis XII) at end wanting. Contemporary ms. notes. Contemporary blind-tooled brown leather, rebacked.