Item Summary

Charter of compromise, 30 September 1278, between the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Lucien, near Beauvais, France, and their hospites, the villagers of Grandvilliers, Département de Oise, delineating the extent of services owed to the monastery.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Charter, 1278 September 30, between the Abbey of Saint-Lucien and the people of Grandvilliers]
Call Number
South wall 19, Garrett MS. 163e
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc76537f14v
Publisher
[Beauvais, France], [1278]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1278
Extent
1 sheet : parchment ; 338 x 285 (252 x 260) mm.
Provenance
Intermediate provenance is unknown. Acquired by Robert Garrett, his gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift Robert Garrett, Princeton Class of 1897, 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, page 380.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Incipit: "Universis presentes litteras inspecturis, Ricardus de britolio, Radulphus de gaoudeschart, Droco de sauquezes et Petrus de iuuegnies armigeri, homines feodati abbatis sancti Luciani Beluacensis, iudicantes in curia eiusdem abbatis de antiqua et approbata et hactenus pacifice obseruata consuetudine, salutem in domino. Noueritis quod cum inter predictum abbatem et conuentum eiusdem loci ex vna parte et homines suos hospites in villa de grandiuillari ex altera parte contentio verteretur ..."
Explicit: "... Actum anno domini mcclxxmo octavo. Die veneris post festum beati michaelis."
Ms. document.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Along the top margin of the document are the initials "B.G.F.J." On the dorse are an early modern summary, a late medieval endorsement (“littera homines de grandiuill[a]”), an inscription (“Baillia anib'(?)/G. f.”). the name "Granduillers l.w(?)" and "N.17".
Collation: Parchment.
Layout: 27 long lines ; lightly ruled.
Description: Lower edge folded up with slits cut for ten seals to be affixed with parchment tags. Only one tag remains.
Decoration: Calligraphic treatment of ascenders and descenders throughout.
Accompanying materials: A later copy (241 x 182 mm) on paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Abbaye Saint-Lucien (Beauvais, France)—Early works to 1800
Christian giving—France—Grandvilliers (Oise)—Early works to 1800
Benedictine monasteries—France—Grandvilliers (Oise)—Finance—Early works to 1800
Grandvilliers (Oise, France)—Church history—Sources
Tithes—France—History—Sources
Grandvilliers (Oise, France)—History—Sources
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—France
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
Charters and articles of incorporation
Parchment (Paper)

Physical Characteristics

File Count
4

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/696e09fa-c21c-4ada-8709-aa2bfe87b4f3/manifest