Grant, 1182, of Lands to the Abbey of Messines

Notes:

Early-modern and modern inscriptions identifying the document., Stored in a modern, archival diploma holder. 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 colored wax in the 19th century., 2-line initial "W" with slight flourishes opens the text., Twelfth-century, Flemish 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). See acquisition file, dealer's prospectus, for detailed description of William of Reims and Philip of Flanders., protogothic documentary script, and Produced probably in Flanders, and dated 1182 within the document. The identifying inscriptions on the dorse of the document: along the top, possibly a thirteenth-century hand, "confirmatio Willelmi archiepiscopi remorum supra terra de hulsendam et de nova ecclesia et balliola."; below fold line, an early-modern script: "Confirmation de la donation de hulsendam de L'archevesque de Reims faict par Philippe Comte de Flandre aux Dames de Messines. Carte B 1 l'an 1180 [sic]"; inscription in pencil of "1182" immediately below; along the bottom, possibly the same hand as the inscription along the top: "Per Willelmi archiepiscopi Remorum supra terra de hulsendam." Abbey of Messines was destroyed in WWI and restored in 1931 as the crypt of a new church. The Abbey held the document in 1876. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio in May of 2004.

Date Created:

1182-01-01T00:00:00Z

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Western Michigan University. Libraries

Subject Topic:

Manuscripts, Latin, Flanders (Belgium)--Charters, grants, privileges, and Cistercians--Belgium

Language:

lat

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