In Episode 21 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Dot and Lindsey sit down with Yvonne Seale and Heather Wacha to talk about Soissons, Bibliothèque municipale, 0007, aka the Cartulary of Prémontré. Prémontré was the parent house of the Premonstratensian Order, an the cartulary contains legal documents related to the house and its holdings. In our conversation we talked about the house itself, people and events mentioned in the documents, and how the cartulary was written (and how it was changed later).
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Below the cut are more images and links relevant to the conversation.
Soissons, Bibliothèque municipale, 0007, digitized and online.
About the Premonstratensian Order.
Heather's first manuscript experience: the Chad Gospels. Here is folio 3r, the carpet page.
The Chad Gospels - this website documents the work of Bill Endres on the gospels and includes many different views of the manuscript, including 3D models and multispectral images.
Images of Soissons, Bibliothèque municipale, 0007:
Front cover:
Folio 1r: the "new" beginning of the manuscript, which were originally at the back of the manuscript but were moved forward when it was rebound.
Folio 6r- the original start of the manuscript.
Folio 17r - the start of a section of documents.
Ink stains on 95v-96r:
Book of Kells, Christ Enthroned:
More about the Book of Kells.
The Cartulary of Prémontré. Edited by Yvonne Seale and Heather Wacha. Medieval Academy Books. University of Toronto Press, June 2023.
Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is an image of the cartulary of Pipewell Abbey in Northamptonshire. A thirteenth century book with some fourteenth century additions, this manuscript is a lasting testament to the Abbey of which now only earthworks remain.
Image source: British Library MS Stowe 937. Image declared as public domain on the British Library website.
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