(Q28549)
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Belgium--History--12th century--Sources
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Michigan--Kalamazoo
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Manuscripts, Latin--Belgium
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Land grants--Belgium
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1182
12. century
1182Gregorian
1182Gregorian
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Extent: 1 sheet : [parchment], 271 x 237 mm +
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Written in a protogothic documentary script. 2-line initial "W" with slight flourishes opens the text. Archiepiscopal seal still attached to plica: made of green wax (80 x 55 mm), pendant on green silk threads, bearing the standing portrait of William Archbishop of Reims and partly-legible legend around; counterseal on reverse, badly damaged and barely legible. Seal much repaired with neutral...
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Document sealed by William, Archbishop of Reims, issued by his Chancellor Lambinus and dated 1182, concerning the donation of lands - Hulsendam, Nova Ecclesia and Balliol - by Philip of Flanders to the Abbey of Messines (Cottineau 2: 1832).
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Produced probably in Flanders and dated 1182 within the document. Three identifying inscriptions on the dorse of document: along the top, possibly a 13th-century hand, "confirmatio Willelmi archiepiscopi remorum supra terra de hulsendam et de nova ecclesia et balliolo."; below fold line, an early-modern script: "Confirmation de la donation de hulsendam de L'arschevesque de Reims faict par...
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2 February 2024
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2 February 2024
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