Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An officer in the ancient Latin Church who had the care of charters and other papers of a public nature.
- noun A record or an account-book of the temporal possessions of a monastery.
- noun The room in which such records are kept.
- noun The officer who had the records in charge. Also spelled
cartulary .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
cartulary .
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- noun Alternative form of
cartulary .
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Examples
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Freskyn family appointed guardians; rebellion of MacHeths; king William's expedition against thanes of Ross: chartulary; revolt of Donald Ban MacWilliam; king Hakon's proposed raid (1263); no Norse place-names on seaboard;
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray
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Referring to its chartulary as a record of the names of the old Scottish families Dr. Cosmo Innes says: --
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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The chartulary of Saint Vertin alone introduces us to: 1st, a deacon named Winidmarus, who in 723 wrote a deed of sale at Saint-Omer itself
Georges Guynemer Bordeaux, Henry, 1870- 1918
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The chartulary of Saint Vertin alone introduces us to: 1st, a deacon named
Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air Henry Bordeaux 1916
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The value of a chartulary as an historical document depends, of course, on the extent to which it reproduces the substantial meaning of the original, and this question must be settled by the well-known canons of historical criticism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Sometimes the copyist of the chartulary reproduced the original document with literary exactness.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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MS. 1063, a seventeenth cent. transcript of Abbot John Lyle's chartulary compiled in 1471.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Generally speaking, a chartulary should rank as a public document possessing greater value than a private letter or the narrative of an annalist.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The polyptych of St. Victor, compiled in 814, the large chartulary, or collection of charters (end of the eleventh and beginning of the twelfth century), and the small chartulary (middle of the thirteen century) edited by M. Guérard, and containing documents from 683 to 1336, enable the reader to grasp the important economic rôle of this great abbey in the Middle Ages.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Dowden, in his introduction to the Lindores chartulary, gives details of these endowments, as well as of the privileges granted to the abbey by successive popes: these do not seem to have differed from those enjoyed by other great monasteries.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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