Mortuary roll for monks of St Peter's Abbey, Ghent

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Gent, Rijksarchief te Gent, Archief Sint-Pietersabdij, charter nr. 635bis

General Information

Title Mortuary roll for monks of St Peter's Abbey, Ghent
Shelfmarks Archief Sint-Pietersabdij Gent, charter nr. 635bis
Material Parchment
Place of Origin St Peter's Abbey, Ghent and other abbeys where the roll was sent.
Date of Origin 1251
Script, Hands

Gothic documentary hands. The main text was written in Ghent, with tituli added by the abbeys where the roll arrive at the dorso and presumably on lost added membranes.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 270 mm
Page Width at least 157 mm
Height of Written Area 245 mm
Width of Written Area 145 – 150 mm
Number of Columns 1
Line Height 6 – 7 mm
Ruling faint, plumet ruling of the lines.
More about the Condition

One membrane survives, but there were presumably additionale sheets of parchment pasted onto this to provide space for tituli written at the abbeys visited by the roll.

Current Condition

Extent 1 membrane
Dimensions 270 x 157 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Cadels.

Bibliography

  • Dufour, Jean, Les rouleaux de morts (Turnhout: Brepols, 2009), p. 58-59, 191, pl. 39

  • Dufour, Jean, Recueil des rouleaux des morts (VIIIe siècle-vers 1536) 2: 1181-1399 (Paris: de Boccard, 2006), p. 320-322, no. 190