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Add MS 21072
- Record Id:
- 032-002091448
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002091448
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000051.0x000242
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165145835.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 21072
- Title:
- Census of St Mary Magdalene’s Abbey, Cologne
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a census of lands granted and leased to St Mary Magdalene’s Abbey, Cologne, a house of sisters of the Penitential Order of Mary Magdalene, an order established for former sex-workers. The entries are arranged by parish, each listing the property’s grantor, its extent, and the terms of the grant, with marginalia noting the payment dates for any rent owed.
Another manuscript that once belonged to the abbey is now Add MS 21172, a set of the abbey's revenues and expenses.
Contents:
ff. 1r-16v: A census of lands granted or leased to St Mary Magdalene's Abbey, Cologne, with additions up to the 1st half of the 15th century, written in Latin and German.
Decoration:
Initials in black with red pen-flourishing. Rubrics.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002091448
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002091448
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165145835.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- German
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 275 x 160 mm (text space: 210 x 115 mm).
Foliation: ff. 16 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather, blind-stamped; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Cologne, Germany.
Provenance:
St Mary Magdalene’s Abbey, Cologne: a census of the lands granted and leased to the abbey in the 2nd half of the 14th century, with additions until the 1st half of the 15th century.
Martin Joseph Routh (b. 1755, d. 1854), English classical scholar and President of Magdalen College, Oxford: his sale, Sotheby's, 5 July 1855, lot 58; purchased by the British Museum for 19s, along with Add MSS 21058-21104 (see inscription, f. [ii] recto).
- Publications:
- Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1860 (London: British Museum, 1875), p. 318.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)