[Cartulary]

Description
Cartulary of the monastery of San Andrés de Fanlo in Aragon (Spain). Contains 13th-century copies of documents that date between the 10th century and the 1250s. The documents cover a wide variety of topics, including wills, donations, royal endowments, regulations governing vineyards (some leased by Jews), inheritances, etc. In general, the documents deal with the economic life of the community ruled by the monastery.
Creator
El monasterio de San Andrés de Fanlo
Form
manuscripts (documents)
codices (bound manuscripts)
cartularies
Manuscripts, Latin
Manuscripts, Medieval
Date
1250
Language
Latin
Subject
Catholic Church -- Spain -- Aragon
Catholic Church
Cartularies -- Specimens
Monasticism and religious orders
Cartularies
History
Geographic Subject
Aragon (Spain) -- History -- Sources
Huesca (Spain) -- History -- Sources
Spain -- History -- 711-1516
Spain
Spain -- Aragon
Extent
103 leaves : parchment ; 242 x 167 (148 x 105) mm
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from Hirsch-Zacour Catalogue.
Collation: 1⁴( -1) 2³ 3² 4-13⁴, 14⁴( -2); folios 44, 47, 60, 65, 77, and 80 are tipped in. Quires are misbound, as is evident from the catchwords, lower center of last verso (some trimmed away). Original order is uncertain. Several quires appear to be missing: after quire 1, before quire 2, before quire 6, before and after quire 10, and after quire 12. The beginning of the manuscript is missing and a label has been removed from the current first leaf. Two sequences can be reconstructed: quires 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12 (f. 8-33, 74-89) and quires 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14 (f. 34-65, 90-103). The documents are not in chronological or alphabetical order. The first digits of the 16th-century foliation have been erased, leaving repeating arabic numerals, 0-9, upper right recto (i.e. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,1,2,3, ...); modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 19 long lines; ruled in lead; prickings visible.
Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand by various scribes; some hands, on the final two folios, are slightly later.
Decoration: Red initials with brown filigree, showing typical Spanish features, such as "harping" of the filigree; rubrication; occasional marginalia.
Binding: Disbound; sewn, with paste on spine, but no binding; sewing, probably not original, is very delicate; many quires pulling loose, and several are practically detached from the rest of the codex.
Origin: Written in Aragon (Spain) in the second half of the 13th-century; the documents themselves are earlier in date than the present copies; the latest dated document is dated January 9, 1256 (f. 18r).
Photocopy of a description and discussion of the manuscript's contents by an unknown author is on file in the Library. A history and description of the manuscript by Eric Knibbs is also on file.
Latin.
Related works
Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3dr2p83c
Collation model: http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/2
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 107
Provenance
Purchased on the Lessing and Edith Rosenwald Fund.
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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