Item Summary

Deed of amortissement concerning Michel, Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Notre-Dame de Breteuil, Picardy, and Guillaume de Hollande, Bishop of Beauvais, dated 9 September 1452.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Deed, 1452 September 9, concerning Michel, Abbot of Notre-Dame de Breteuil and Guillaume de Hollande, Bishop of Beauvais]
Call Number
South wall 19, Garrett MS. 164e
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcm326mg05d
Language
Middle French
Date Created
1452
Extent
1 sheet : parchment ; 292-300 x 490-500 (195 x 340) mm.
Provenance
Given in the chapter of the Benedictine Abbey of Notre-Dame de Breteuil, on 9 September 1452. Intermediate ownership unknown. Acquired by Robert Garrett who presented it to the Princeton University Library in 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift Robert Garrett, Princeton Class of 1897; 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 380-381.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Incipit: "A tous ceulx Qui ces presentes lettres verront ou ovront, Michel, Par la permission diuine humble Abbe de leglise et monastere nostre dame de Brethueil de lordre Saint benoist ou diocese de beauuais et tout le comient de ce mesmes lieu salut en nostre seigneur. Sauoir faisons que A Reuerend pere en dieu Monseigneur Guillaume de hellande Euesque et Conte de beauuais ..."
Explicit: "... ... Ce fut fait en nostre Chappitre le Neufieme Jour de Septembre lan de grace Mil quatrecens Cinquante et deux."
Ms. document.
Title devised by cataloger.
Summary written by a contemporary scribe on the dorse. Accompanied by a modern transcription.
Collation: Parchment.
Layout: 37 long lines.
Decoration: An elaborate strapwork initial opening "A tous ceulx," with a large initial A (70 x 85 mm) set in the left margin. Calligraphic treatment of ascenders of top line.

Discovery Information

Subject
Abbaye Notre-Dame de Breteuil (Breteuil, Oise, France)—Early works to 1800
Benedictine monasteries—France—Breteuil (Oise)—Finance—Early works to 1800
Breteuil (Oise, France)—Church history—Sources
Manuscripts, French—New Jersey—Princeton
decorated initials
Deeds

Physical Characteristics

File Count
5

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f968b063-708d-4094-a358-84665658f665/manifest