Des seigneurs sans chancellerie ? Pratiques de l'écrit documentaire chez les comtes et les barons du nord de la France aux XIIe-XIIIe siècles

Nieus, Jean-François

doi:10.3406/bcrh.2010.1097

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“…Since the writing of charters in the Orval ‘chancery’ has not yet been studied, we do not know exactly which charters were manufactured within the monastery, and which were produced outside, by their author's employees. Indeed, in the Middle Ages, charters were frequently prepared by their beneficiaries, especially when their nominal author was not prominent enough as to have a writing office or personnel of his own [20]. While papal bulls were certainly produced by the pontifical chancery, most deeds issued in the name of second-rank aristocrats, such as Thierry of Walcourt in 1200, were plausibly made by the Orval monks.…”

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“…Accordingly, a threshold score of 10 was agreed, below which the manual interpretation was accepted as the final decision on species ID. The small number of samples (20) above this threshold that had no manual ID were reexamined, and where appropriate the Bacollite classification was accepted. The distribution of Bacollite scores in each CU is shown in electronic supplementary material, figure S2.…”

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A biocodicological analysis of the medieval library and archive from Orval Abbey, Belgium

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Biocodicological analysis of parchments from manuscript books and archives offers unprecedented insight into the materiality of medieval literacy. Using ZooMS for animal species identification, we explored almost the entire library and all the preserved single leaf charters of a single medieval Cistercian monastery (Orval Abbey, Belgium). Systematic non-invasive sampling of parchment collagen was performed on every charter and on the first bifolium from every quire of the 118 codicological units composing the books (1490 samples in total). Within the genuine production of the Orval scriptorium (26 units), a balanced use of calfskin (47.1%) and sheepskin (48.5%) was observed, whereas calfskin was less frequent (24.3%) in externally produced units acquired by the monastery (92 units). Calfskin was preferably used for higher quality manuscripts while sheepskin tends to be the standard choice for ‘ordinary’ manuscript book production. This finding is consistent with thirteenth-century parchment accounts from Beaulieu Abbey (England) where calfskin supply was more limited and its price higher. Our study reveals that the making of archival documents does not follow the same pattern as the production of library books. Although the five earliest preserved charters are made of calfskin, from the 1230s onwards, all charters from Orval are written on sheepskin.

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