Cartulary of St. Cugat

Description

Title: Cartulary of St. Cugat
Published / Created: 15th century.
Publication Place: Northeastern Spain (Sant Cugat del Vallés);
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of a Cartulary of the abbey of Sant Cugat del Vallés. The manuscript also contains documents pertaining to a lawsuit between the monastery and the town of Sant Cugat.
Description: Binding: no covers.
Copy of the charter of Lothaire, King of the Franks (954-986), for the abbey of Sant Cugat, dated Compiègne, 986 January-February. The copy was made by Bernard of Caderita, notary at Barcelona, 1044 January 17. The manuscript contains confirmations of this charter by James I, King of Aragon (1213-1276), dated 1233 January 23, and Pedro IV, King of Aragon (1336-1387), dated 1338 April 20. The manuscript also contains documents about a lawsuit before the court of the bishop of Barcelona between the monastery of Sant Cugat del Vallés and the town of Sant Cugat at the occasion of a fight between two inhabitants of the town and the wounds they received, 1273-1380. The Latin language of these documents is very ungrammatical.
Script: probably copied by a single hand writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens with Spanish features. Paragraph marks and headings in pale red ink. Red initials with reserved interior shapes, of various heights.
Wanting f. 30.
Extent: ff. 54: paper; 300 x 225 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Annotations
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Rubrics
Material: paper
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): Cartularies
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

Access: Public
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Citation: Cartulary of St. Cugat. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Orbis Record: 9884616
Object ID (OID): 11007477
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/MS906.pdf