{"id":6762,"date":"2016-04-02T15:24:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T15:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=6762"},"modified":"2016-07-15T17:36:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T17:36:20","slug":"sorenson-2016-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/sorenson-2016-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorenson (2016 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"

David W. Sorenson
\n(David Berman, Numismatist<\/em>)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

“Four Cartulary Fragments in Parchment and Paper”<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Abstract of Paper
\nPresented at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2016)<\/h3>\n

Session on
\n“Parchment or Paper? Choosing the Writing Medium in the Era Before the Printing Press”<\/strong>
\nSession 5 (2016) in the Research Group Series on “Medieval Writing Materials”
\nSponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong>
\nOrganized by Mildred Budny
\n2016 Congress Program<\/a> and 2016 Congress Report<\/a><\/h4>\n

[Published on 2 April 2016<\/em>]<\/p>\n

\"Title<\/a>Among the traditional uses of parchment after 1500 is the well-known deed, which in some places continued until living memory.\u00a0 Previously the deeds which were issued by certain sorts of issuers were recorded in copy-books.\u00a0 These “cartularies” provide copies, in some cases where the originals no longer survive.<\/p>\n

In this paper we will examine four fragmentary unpublished examples, two on parchment and two on paper, three from Germany and one from Spain, produced between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, and consider various aspects of them:\u00a0\u00a0 what they were used for, what sort of cartularies they were, as well as what sort of documents they contain.\u00a0 It may be possible to determine some of the reasons for parchment versus paper use, particularly in view of the continuing use of parchment for the documents which they copy.<\/p>\n

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The four leaves depicted here are respectively \u2014 in horizontal rows from top left to bottom right\u00a0\u2014 from Arnsberg (North Rhine-Westphalia<\/span>), Selbold (Hessen), Buchsechertal, and Vallfort (Catalu\u00f1a<\/span>), in the order presented in the paper.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Website Editor’s Note<\/em><\/p>\n

The Abstracts for the other presentations by David W. Sorenson at Sessions sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence at the International Congress on Medieval Studies appear here:<\/p>\n