Western Michigan University, WMU MS 110

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6394

Shelfmark:

WMU MS 110

Title:

Grant, 1241 March 1, of Land to the Abbey of La Garde-Dieu

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1241

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Provençal language, Quercy dialect

Provençal WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 202 x 288 mm

Note:

Ms. leaf with plica.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Grant to the Abbey of La Garde-Dieu by Haimeric de Gordo [Gourdon], son of Ratier de Castelnau, of "la terra de Varanhas", Castelnau, 1 March 1241, in the reign of Louis IX, and Raymond VII Count of Toulouse, Gérard de Baras, Bishop of Cahors, with the names of seven witnesses including the scribe, in the Quercy dialect of the Provençal language.
Parchment, single sheet (originally folded five times) with plica. Written in a clear documentary script. The seal, now missing, was appended to a cloth strip, a portion of which is still present.
Produced in France at the Cistercian Abbey of La Garde-Dieu (Cottineau 1: 1253), and dated 1 March 1241. La Garde-Dieu in the diocese of Cahors, was founded in 1150 as a daughter-house of Aubazine. The Abbey is a few miles south of Catelnau-Montratier, the new fortified town built by Ratier, the father of the grantor, on the site of a town destroyed by Simon de Montfort. On the reverse side of...

Keyword:

documentary scripts

Charters

France

Monasteries

Manuscripts, Medieval

Land grants

Manuscripts, Provençal

Institutional Record:

https://primo-pmtna01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/4dvb3u/01WMU_ALMA21340954930002436

IIIF Manifest:

https://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/iiif/m/WMUwmu~77~77~876108~142045/manifest

Holding Institution:

Western Michigan University