Western Michigan University, WMU MS 117

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6397

Shelfmark:

WMU MS 117

Title:

Foundation charter of Bruern Abbey

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1290 and 1310

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 sheet : parchment, 145 x 287 mm +

Note:

Ms. document.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in English cursive documentary script. First Initial "O" is slightly enlarged and embellished. The seal of Nicholas Basset is still attached; made of green wax (approximately 5 cm diameter) in near fine condition, pendant on blue-green cords; bearing the device of a knight in armor galloping on horseback with legend "SIGILL NICHOLLI BASSAT"; covered by a little textile seal bag...
Produced at Bruern Abbey within Oxfordshire, England around 1300. This foundation charter was issued after the actual foundation of the abbey. The Cistercian Abbey of Bruern (Cottineau 1:517) was founded by Nicholas Basset on 10 July 1147, originally as a cell of Garendon Abbey (Cottineau 1:1254) in Leicestershire. By the end of the thirteenth century circumstances at the abbey - presumably...

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Charters

Cistercians--England--History--Sources

England

Institutional Record:

https://primo-pmtna01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/4dvb3u/01WMU_ALMA21345399540002436

IIIF Manifest:

https://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/iiif/m/WMUwmu~77~77~1222424~156646/manifest

Holding Institution:

Western Michigan University