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- Date Created:
- [1906 TO 2002]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing YWCA
- Notes:
- 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.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Later inscriptions identifying the manuscript., Housed behind glass in a modern, wooden frame (245 x 345) visible on one side only; dealer's prospectus on back., Fifteenth-century, French charter of Charles the Bold (1433-1477), last reigning Duke of Burgundy, granting a pension to his faithful vassal Ranlequin de Fontaines for wounds he received during military service. The military service probably included Charles' 1475 campaign in Lorraine. The document is signed by Charles and several of his important advisers including the Bishop of Tournai. Other names mentioned include: Master Pierre Bogart, Jehan Ondart, and J. Gros. For complete transcription and translation of this document see bibliographic file., Burgundian Bastard (cursiva media/libraria) script, and Written in Nancy, Duchy of Lorraine (Lothaire), modern day France in 1475. Document must have been written shortly after Charles' capture of Nancy in 1475, which he promptly lost to René II, Duke of Lorraine in 1476. The text reads, "donne en notre ville de nanc_," the rest of the word is cropped, but most likely refers to Nancy. "Copie" written in the same hand along the top; faded pencil inscription along the bottom; scribal inscription, in less formal hand just below text, "Ceste copie a este collotionne aux lesd. Originals par moy" followed by elaborate signature. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio, in July of 2005.
- Date Created:
- 1475-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Housed behind glass in a modern, wooden frame (190 x 300) visible on one side only; dealer's prospectus on back., Fifteenth-century, French charter of Marie of Cleaves (1426-1487), Duchess of Orleans and wife of Charles d'Orleans, confirming that her furrier, Jean Adam, has sent various cloaks and other garments through her good friend Master Pierre Sauvage, the Duke's counselor and keeper of the seals. See bibliographic file for complete transcription and translation., French secretary script (cursive media), and Written in Blois, France and dated 5 March 1440. Marie became Duchess in late 1440 so dating is from old calendar which ran from the end of March, making this 5 March 1441 according to modern calendar. Document signed by Marie at the end of the text: "Marie par le commandement de madame la duchesse", followed by elaborate scribal signature. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library form Mackus Company in July of 2005.
- Date Created:
- 1441-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Later inscriptions identifying the manuscript., Secured to a modern, mat board with two small threads; visible one side only., Thirteenth-century, Italian document in Latin, signed in the old archiepiscopal palace in the presence of the Bishop of Lodi and other named abbots, canons, and a priests from Milan and Verona recording the transfer to the Dominicans in Milan of the church of St. Eustorgius and its surrounds in Verona. Signed by the Archbishop and the scribe Jacobus., pregothic Italian documentary script, and Produced in Milan and dated, "1220 8 ante Kal. Novembris" in a near-contemporary hand along the top, Post-medieval inscriptions on dorse: "signature autographa Henrici Septula an. 1220 v. Saxii Archi. Med. Serias To: II. p. 650 de Puricelli Dissert. Nazar. p. 559"; an earlier inscription just below reads, "1220 8 ante Kal..." (all else is illegible); possibly in the library of Giovanni Pietro Puricelli (d. 1695). Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron Ohio, June, 2008.
- Date Created:
- 1220-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Later inscriptions identifying the manuscript., Secured to a modern, mat board with two small threads; visible one side only., Thirteenth-century, Italian document in Latin, signed in the old archiepiscopal palace in the presence of the Bishop of Lodi and other named abbots, canons, and a priests from Milan and Verona recording the transfer to the Dominicans in Milan of the church of St. Eustorgius and its surrounds in Verona. Signed by the Archbishop and the scribe Jacobus., pregothic Italian documentary script, and Produced in Milan and dated, "1220 8 ante Kal. Novembris" in a near-contemporary hand along the top, Post-medieval inscriptions on dorse: "signature autographa Henrici Septula an. 1220 v. Saxii Archi. Med. Serias To: II. p. 650 de Puricelli Dissert. Nazar. p. 559"; an earlier inscription just below reads, "1220 8 ante Kal..." (all else is illegible); possibly in the library of Giovanni Pietro Puricelli (d. 1695). Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron Ohio, June, 2008.
- Date Created:
- 1220-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Hassada Buds Charter certificate, September 1952. Text reads: "Be it hereby known by all present that the following are chartered as founding members of the Hadassah Buds of Muskegon by the parent chapter of Muskegon Hadassah for the purpose of developing an understanding of the spirit of the Jewish people and of assisting in the realization of Jewish aims. Sandra August, Nancy Klayf, Lynn Cheolin, Carol Parker, Marion Greenberg, Raleigh Radoff, Phyllis Greenberg, Judy Siegel, Marlyn Stein. This fifteenth day of September 1952. President: Ruth Krause and 1st Vice President: Irene Steindler."
- Date Created:
- 1952-09-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Collection:
- L'dor V'dor (project)
- Notes:
- Folded at bottom. A few small worm holes. Attached is a seal tag that was cut from an earlier document of which some of the words are still visible. Attached to the tag is a narrow band formerly used to hold an affiliated claim (MS 156)., Quitclaim by Hugh, son of Simon of Rodes, to Walter son of Walter de Hawesword (Haukesw[o]rd), relinquishing all rights to four acres of land in the field of Rodes [in Menston] which Hugh’s father Simon had given to his brother William. Witnessed by Simon Ward miles (known 1291-1326; Moor 84:155-6), Mathew Burne, Hugh de Berwicke, Walter de Midelton, Simon son of Thomas de Giselay, and Thomas (Francisus?). Note that, with the exception of William, son of Matilda de Haukesw[o]rds, this is the same list of witnesses which appears in a related quitclaim (MS 156)., 1 column of 10 lines ruled in ink in English cursive documentary script., and Written in England, the document concerns lands in Rodes, i.e., Rhodes Green in Menston, NW of Leeds, Yorks WR, near Hawksworth and Guiseley. Dated to the late thirteenth century, or not much later, on paleographic grounds, and on the identification of one of the witnesses, Simon Ward miles (known 1291-1326; Moor 84:155-6). Description by Regan/Lynch.
- Date Created:
- [1275 TO 1325]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- 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.
- Date Created:
- 1241-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Housed behind glass in a modern, wooden frame (190 x 300) visible on one side only; dealer's prospectus on back., Fifteenth-century, French charter of Marie of Cleaves (1426-1487), Duchess of Orleans and wife of Charles d'Orleans, confirming that her furrier, Jean Adam, has sent various cloaks and other garments through her good friend Master Pierre Sauvage, the Duke's counselor and keeper of the seals. See bibliographic file for complete transcription and translation., French secretary script (cursive media), and Written in Blois, France and dated 5 March 1440. Marie became Duchess in late 1440 so dating is from old calendar which ran from the end of March, making this 5 March 1441 according to modern calendar. Document signed by Marie at the end of the text: "Marie par le commandement de madame la duchesse", followed by elaborate scribal signature. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library form Mackus Company in July of 2005.
- Date Created:
- 1441-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries