(Q50519)

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Cartulary of Mende Cathedral
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Extent: fols. 8; membrane; 318 x 233 (222 x 170)
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Layout: 2 columns, 27-29 lines
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Decoration: Numerous 2-4 line initials in alternating red and blue, the blue with contrasting penwork in red, the red with violet penwork; penwork flourishes extend vertically in the interior margins and intercolumnar spaces. 2+-line rubric introducing the text at the top of fol. xxxi
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Ruled lightly in plummet
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8 folios of continuous text
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Foliated xxxi-xxxviii at top right corner of each recto
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Quire bound with later, but still early, sewing cord
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Stamps indicated the quire has circulated independently since at least the 19th century
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Partially erased inscriptions at foot of fol. xxxi
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Rubrics introduce separate transactions
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Roman numerals in margins provide section numbers for individual transactions
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Provenance: Payre-Grolée-Virville family (?): Represented by a 19th-century armorial ink stamp
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8 consecutive folios preserving 14 entries (the final one incomplete) recording transations originally finalized in 1185, 1194, 1205, 1209, 1247, 1250, 1265, 1268, and 1273 listing affirmations, disputes, purchases, donations, and exchanges of various properties in support of the activities and upkeep of the Mende Cathedral Chapter,
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with specific mention of transactions mentioning Sangues, La Rouvière, Salsas, Viviers, and other localities
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Incipit: Haec sunt instrumenta capituli in archipresbyteratum de salgue (fol. 299.1r)
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Explicit: In qua permutatione utilitias et (fol. 299.8v)
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26 August 2024
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26 August 2024
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