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Title
Legal document.
Created
Aix-en-Provence, 1263.
Physical Description
f. 1 : parchment ; 1,455 x 201 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: Written in small gothic bookhand.
Surface much worn, with some loss of text.
Binding: Unbound.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment roll, composed of three membranes, of Copy dated on January 15, 1263, of an agreement made at Aix-en-Provence on July 28, 1262, between Charles I of Anjou and Feraud de Barras concerning respective rights of the Count and the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in the area around Manosque. Among the witnesses cited are the troubadours Bertran d'Alamanon and Sordello. Between the years 1252 and 1265, these two troubadours are witnesses to numerous documents as milites.
Publications
Faye and Bond, p. 92. no. 241.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
July 12, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 241.
Legal Document. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Legal Document. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - France - 13th century.
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