(Q28519)
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France--History--13th century--Sources
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Michigan--Kalamazoo
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1241
13. century
1241Gregorian
1241Gregorian
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Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 202 x 288 mm
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Ms. leaf with plica.
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Grant to the Abbey of La Garde-Dieu by Haimeric de Gordo [Gourdon], son of Ratier de Castelnau, of "la terra de Varanhas", 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.
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Parchment, single sheet (originally folded five times) with plica. Written in a clear documentary script. The seal, now missing, was appended to a cloth strip, a portion of which is still present.
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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...
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2 February 2024
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2 February 2024
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