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- Fourteenth-century, unpublished legal opinion in a long-running dispute between the Cistercian abbey of Cambron (Cottineau 1:572) and the college of canons regular of St. Vincent in Soignies (Cottineau 2:3049), in the County of Hainaut. The canons had accused the Cisterican monks of illegally occupying the land in Sars Moullet and elsewhere., Written in a dark brown in a semi-cursive documentary script., and Produced in present-day Belgium or northern France either at the abbey of Cambron or at Soignies in the County of Hainaut. On dorse: the letter "j" in a contemporary hand and the number "188" in black ink in a later hand, now scratched out. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron, Ohio in 2006 (D5391).
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- Housed in a modern wooden frame (406 x 457 mm); charter visible on one side only, with dealer's prospectus on back. The seal of Nicholas Basset is still attached; made of green wax (ca. 5 cm diameter) in near fine condition, pendant on blue-green cords; bearing the device of a knight in armor galloping on horseback with the legend “SIGILL NICHOLLI BASSAT”; covered by a little textile seal bag threaded over the cords., First initial “O” is slightly enlarged and embellished., Fourteenth-century English grant by Nicholas Basset, Lord of Tretone, to the monks of the Cistercian abbey of Garendon, of a place in “Brueria Treton” to build a monastery and to serve God and St. Mary there and to live according to the Rule of St. Benedict, together with a mill and various named lands, for the salvation of his soul and those of his parents and of all the faithful people, with the names of 12 witnesses. Includes medieval endorsements: “Nichs. Basset de fundacione.”, English cursive documentary script, and 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 financial -- required the creation of another charter. The present charter would have been viewed as a posthumous grant by the late founder. The wording of the text reads like a twelfth-century document but the script is late thirteenth or early fourteenth. The monks have accorded themselves more generous land provisions than the founder had actually done. The seal appears authentic and either was unthreaded and reattached from a twelfth-century original or the monks still had the matrix. Even if it was known to be 150 years too recent to be genuine, it would have been acknowledged as the actual foundation charter. Bruern Abbey was suppressed in 1536. Purchased by Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio, on May 2003.
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- Single gathering of 20 leaves, binding thread visible at sewing holes. Possibly part of a larger ledger. Vertical crease where the gathering was once folded., Numerous 2-4 line initials at the beginning of most paragraphs in elaborate cursive., A manuscript document composed by Belgian magistrate Jean-Baptiste Hauchamps, presenting the conditions of sale for the D’Aywiers Abbey, a Cistercian monastary, in the fief of Rognon (now the commune of Rebecq), a transaction involving the abbey’s last abbess Claire Joseph Demarbaix. The abbey was sold during the French Revolution and subsequently deconstructed for the sale of raw materials. This document is likely the final description of the estate while in Belgian hands. The document includes a description of the lands and numberous buildings spanning over 2000 acres in the valley of Lasne. Founded in 1215 and later part of a religous suppression in 1788 by Emperor Joseph II of Austria (1765-1790), the abbey was offered for sale to bidders near six centuries later for 160,000 French livres. Detailed conditions of the sale are outlined, the sellers hoping to maintain the integrety of th premise and to honor the tenants’ rights with their holdings. Especailly important is the detailed partitioning of the grounds, including orchards, farms, homesteads, pastures, and the “commanderie de vaillampont” (Lodge and land of the Knights Templar near Nivelles). Land measurements are in ancient terms. Aywiers’ last abbess, Dame Claire Joseph Demarbaix (1740-1820) played a part in the sale transaction. Her specific roles are described throughout the document., 1 column of about 17 lines written in large French cursive script., and Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Voyager Press.
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- 1794-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- The seal, now missing, was appended to a cloth strop, a portion of which is still present., Thirteenth-century, French grant to the Abbey of La Garde-Dieu by Haimeric de Gordo [Gourdon], son of Ratier de Castelnau, of "la terra de 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., clear documentary script, and 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 the document are several different inscriptions in various hands including: a summary of the charter and the date "1241" in an early hand; the number "144" in an early hand; the number "9352" in pencil in a modern hand; two inscriptions in fourteenth- or fifteenth-century scripts; "chapitre chronologique" in a seventeenth- through nineteenth-century script. Purchased by Alan G Thomas in 1970 from the Phillips Collection and acquired by the Mackus Company shortly thereafter; purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn, Ohio on May 8, 1999.
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- 1241-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- The seal, now missing, was appended to a cloth strop, a portion of which is still present., Thirteenth-century, French grant to the Abbey of La Garde-Dieu by Haimeric de Gordo [Gourdon], son of Ratier de Castelnau, of "la terra de 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., clear documentary script, and 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 the document are several different inscriptions in various hands including: a summary of the charter and the date "1241" in an early hand; the number "144" in an early hand; the number "9352" in pencil in a modern hand; two inscriptions in fourteenth- or fifteenth-century scripts; "chapitre chronologique" in a seventeenth- through nineteenth-century script. Purchased by Alan G Thomas in 1970 from the Phillips Collection and acquired by the Mackus Company shortly thereafter; purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn, Ohio on May 8, 1999.
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- 1241-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Fourteenth-century, unpublished legal opinion in a long-running dispute between the Cistercian abbey of Cambron (Cottineau 1:572) and the college of canons regular of St. Vincent in Soignies (Cottineau 2:3049), in the County of Hainaut. The canons had accused the Cisterican monks of illegally occupying the land in Sars Moullet and elsewhere., Written in a dark brown in a semi-cursive documentary script., and Produced in present-day Belgium or northern France either at the abbey of Cambron or at Soignies in the County of Hainaut. On dorse: the letter "j" in a contemporary hand and the number "188" in black ink in a later hand, now scratched out. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron, Ohio in 2006 (D5391).
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Fourteenth-century, unpublished legal opinion in a long-running dispute between the Cistercian abbey of Cambron (Cottineau 1:572) and the college of canons regular of St. Vincent in Soignies (Cottineau 2:3049), in the County of Hainaut. The canons had accused the Cisterican monks of illegally occupying the land in Sars Moullet and elsewhere., Written in a dark brown in a semi-cursive documentary script., and Produced in present-day Belgium or northern France either at the abbey of Cambron or at Soignies in the County of Hainaut. On dorse: the letter "j" in a contemporary hand and the number "188" in black ink in a later hand, now scratched out. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron, Ohio in 2006 (D5391).
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Fourteenth-century, unpublished legal opinion in a long-running dispute between the Cistercian abbey of Cambron (Cottineau 1:572) and the college of canons regular of St. Vincent in Soignies (Cottineau 2:3049), in the County of Hainaut. The canons had accused the Cisterican monks of illegally occupying the land in Sars Moullet and elsewhere., Written in a dark brown in a semi-cursive documentary script., and Produced in present-day Belgium or northern France either at the abbey of Cambron or at Soignies in the County of Hainaut. On dorse: the letter "j" in a contemporary hand and the number "188" in black ink in a later hand, now scratched out. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron, Ohio in 2006 (D5391).
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries