Western Michigan University, WMU MS 120

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6404

Shelfmark:

WMU MS 120

Title:

Grant, 1182, of lands to the Abbey of Messines, France

Place:

Belgium

Belgium TGN

Date:

1182

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 sheet : [parchment], 271 x 237 mm +

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in a protogothic documentary script. 2-line initial "W" with slight flourishes opens the text. Archiepiscopal seal still attached to plica: made of green wax (80 x 55 mm), pendant on green silk threads, bearing the standing portrait of William Archbishop of Reims and partly-legible legend around; counterseal on reverse, badly damaged and barely legible. Seal much repaired with neutral...
Document sealed by William, Archbishop of Reims, issued by his Chancellor Lambinus and dated 1182, concerning the donation of lands - Hulsendam, Nova Ecclesia and Balliol - by Philip of Flanders to the Abbey of Messines (Cottineau 2: 1832).
Produced probably in Flanders and dated 1182 within the document. Three identifying inscriptions on the dorse of document: along the top, possibly a 13th-century hand, "confirmatio Willelmi archiepiscopi remorum supra terra de hulsendam et de nova ecclesia et balliolo."; below fold line, an early-modern script: "Confirmation de la donation de hulsendam de L'arschevesque de Reims faict par...

Keyword:

Belgium

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin

Land grants

Institutional Record:

https://primo-pmtna01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/4dvb3u/01WMU_ALMA21346570840002436

IIIF Manifest:

https://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/iiif/m/WMUwmu~77~77~876594~142331/manifest

Holding Institution:

Western Michigan University