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[Charter granting a dowry to his daughter] : 1170 April [18].

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 86
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Format:
Book
Manuscript
Author/Creator:
Olivariis, Guillelmus Gilaberti de.
Language:
Latin
Subjects (All):
Sicarda.
Guielma.
Raimundus.
Charters--Specimens.
Dowry.
Charters.
Barcelona (Spain)--Charters, grants, privileges--12th century.
Catalonia (Spain)--Charters, grants, privileges--12th century.
Corró de Munt (Spain).
Sant Mamet de Corró (Parish).
Sant Mamet de Corró d'Amunt.
Local Subjects:
Sicarda.
Guielma.
Raimundus.
Corró de Munt (Spain).
Sant Mamet de Corró (Parish).
Sant Mamet de Corró d'Amunt.
Genre:
charters
fragments (object portions)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Specimens.
Penn Provenance:
Acquired, 1960.
Physical Description:
1 item (1 leaf) : parchment ; 15 x 24 cm
Other Title:
Cunctis sit manifestum quod ego Guillelmus Gilaberti de Olivariis et uxor mea Sicarda.
Place of Publication:
1170 April [18].
Language Note:
In Latin.
Summary:
Grant of a dowry from Guillelmus Gilaberti de Olivariis and his wife Sicarda to their daughter Guielma and her husband Raimundus, in the parish of Sant Mamet de Corró in the county of Barcelona, in Spain. Includes the attestations of several witnesses.
Notes:
Incipit and explicit: Cunctis sit manefestum quod ego Guillelmus Gilaberti de Olivariis et uxor mea Sicarda ... Poncius levita qui hoc scripsit cum litteris emendatis .Xllll. linea, die et anno quo supra.
The scribe appears to the priest Poncius mentioned in the explicit.
Corró de Munt, Spain. Date given in line 15 as: "xiiii K. madii. Anno xxxiii regis Ledoyci iunioris," i.e. 18 april 1170. This king is the French king Louis VII, who reigned 1137-1180.
Late Romanesque notarial hand.
Oblong; uneven.
Transcription and translation on file in the Library.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 166 (Ms. Lea 89).
Publications about:
Transcription and translation in: Benton, J. F. "Two Twelfth-century Latin Charters from Rural Catalonia in the Lea Library." The Library Chronicle XXVIII (1962) no. 1, pp. 14-25.
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 86
OCLC:
213467759

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