![\"Grapes](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/wmark-symp-13-252x300.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
[Posted on 3 July 2020, with updates<\/em>]<\/p>\n Continuing our blog on Manuscript Studies<\/em> (see its Contents List<\/a>), we publish images and descriptions of a set of three leaves from the dismembered paper copy of a Latin cartulary<\/a> (or codex diplomaticus<\/em> or Kopialbuch<\/a>, in Latin and German) of the former Premonstratensian<\/a> monastery-and-then-abbey of Selbold in Hessen, Germany.\u00a0 The set presents a now-disrupted series of uniform transcriptions in book form of individual dated documents issued by ecclesiastical and secular rulers confirming, or reconfirming, rights and privileges pertaining to that institution and its dependencies. Purchased from Boyd Mackus<\/a> in the United States some years ago and now in a private collection, the fragments comprise 1 single leaf and 1 bifolium.\u00a0 We identify them here as folios “1” and “2\u20133”, using inverted commas or quotation marks to indicate a non-original sequence and location within the former volume.\u00a0 Written by a single scribe with a uniform layout, the leaves contain a late-medieval copy of the texts of 8 documents (not all complete) issued by various authorities in a range from the 12th to 14th centuries.\u00a0 Upon the original pages, even apart from the subsequent disruptions to the text through dispersal of leaves, the transcriptions are set out in sequences that are only partly chronological according to the issued dates of the documents. Written in ink with elements of red pigment, the text is laid out on the leaves in single columns of 38 lines.\u00a0 One leaf has a watermark.<\/p>\n These leaves deserve to be considered in the contexts not only of the transmission of the documents which they represent, but also of the preservation and circulation of Selbold Cartularies or Kopialbucher<\/em>, insofar as they are known or survive.\u00a0 Here we distinguish in red<\/span> such historical records as the Selbold Cartulary Fragment(s)<\/span> showcased here, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, one or more Selbold Kopialbuche<\/span> (or Copialbuche<\/span>) reported in German by various observers.\u00a0 We indicate one or other of those\u00a0 books known to have survived to the early modern or modern periods, but subsequently lost, or presumed to be lost, by a prefixed asterisk (*<\/span><\/strong>). Also recorded in some notices or copies thereof is a late-medieval [*]Liber privilegiorum et libertatum ecclesie Selboldensis<\/em> (“Book of the Privileges and Rights of the Church of Selbold”), presumed to be lost. Among the challenges, we might wonder to what extent one or other of those recorded\u00a0 [*]Selbolder Kopialbucher<\/span> corresponds to this dismembered one.\u00a0 This post includes some detailed examinations of published editions of its texts and related texts.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Why this detailed work is useful, and can yield strikingly significant results even for only a few leaves from a dispersed manuscript otherwise inaccessible, is revealed in the PostScript<\/strong>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The subtitle for this post could be Manuscript Studies in a Time of Bibliographical ‘Lock-Down’<\/strong>.\u00a0 [Now see also the<\/em> Addendum<\/strong> below<\/em>.] <\/p>\n Naumburg Cathedral, Donor Figure of Graf Dietmar (photograph of 1953). Deutsche Fotothek of the SLUB. Via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n Selbold (modern Langenselbold<\/a>) is a town in the Main-Kinzig district in Hessen<\/a>. It is situated on the River Kinzig, 10 km east of Hanau<\/a>.\u00a0 The oldest surviving documentary reference to the place dates to 1108 CE, when Kloster Selbold<\/a> (likewise examined here<\/a>) was founded by Graf Dietmar of Selbold, founder of the aristocratic dynasty of\u00a0 Selbold-Gelnhausen<\/a><\/i>.\u00a0 The dynasty continued to have links with the monastery:\u00a0 “Die Gr\u00fcnderfamilie des Grafen Dietmar wurde \u00fcber die Herren von B\u00fcdingen<\/a> schlie\u00dflich von den Isenburgern<\/a> beerbt, auch hinsichtlich der Stiftsvogtei<\/a>“.<\/p>\n Landmarks in the history of the monastery (surveyed in Schloss Langenselbold<\/a>) include the papal permission for the foundation of a monastery for Augustinian canons<\/a> at Selbold in 1108; its conversion to the Premonstratensian<\/a> Order in 1139; its elevation to the stature of an abbey in 1343 under Abbot Johannes von Pr\u00e8montr\u00e8; its plundering by Grafs Heinrich and Johann von Isenburg in 1372; its plundering and devastation during the\u00a0German Peasants’ Revolt<\/a> in 1525; and the disbanding of the monastery in 1543, when the last abbot, Konrad J\u00e4ger, handed it over to Graf Anton von Isenburg-B\u00fcdingen<\/a> (or Graf Anton I von Isenburg-B\u00fcdingen<\/a>) (1501\u20131560).<\/p>\n The Premonstratensian<\/a> monastery of Selbold was disbanded in 1543.\u00a0 Earlier forms of the place-name include Selbolt<\/em>, by which name parts of the fragments refer to it.\u00a0 Perhaps needless to say, its documents and its cartularies (in one and another copy), report the names of numerous locations in its region as part and parcel of the historical record.<\/p>\n The principal entries on the fragments reproduces the texts of privileges for the monastery, abbey, or Stift<\/em> of Selbold in codex form.\u00a0 They transcribe documents whose dates of issue are said in accompanying modern notes to range from 1143 to the reign of Karl IV<\/a> (1316\u20131378), King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor (“HRI”), who reigned as HRI 1355\u20131378.\u00a0 A note upon its page dates the last document in the fragment, which breaks off abruptly before a dating clause, to 1363.<\/p>\n Prague, National Gallery, Anonymous, Votive Panel, in Tempera on Wood, of Jan O\u010dko of Vla\u0161im, before 1371. Detail: Charles IV. Image via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n Selbold cartularies, in one form or version or another, as well as the individual documents relating to the monastery of Selbold and its holdings, have been studied with some intensity.\u00a0 (See below.)<\/p>\n The fragment itself has several pencil notes which refer \u2014 in summary form\u00a0\u2014 to editions by different scholars.<\/p>\n A “Companion Note” on a sheet of paper from the seller (shown here below) provides typescript information in 6 short lines in German about the fragments and their text. For example, it calls the item a set of Bruchst\u00fccke eines Diplomatarium mit Privilegien f\u00fcr das Stift Selbold<\/em> (“Fragments of a Diplomatarium<\/em> with Privileges for Stift<\/em> Selbold”), observes that it dates from the sp\u00e4tes 14. od.<\/em>[er<\/em>] fr\u00fches 15. J<\/em>[ahr<\/em>]h<\/em>[undert<\/em>] (“the late 14th or early 15th century”), and declares that its texts or “pieces” (St\u00fccken<\/em>) come from the years “1143, 1151, 1217, 1236, 1296, 1363”.<\/p>\n The term Diplomatarium<\/em> (“repository or<\/em> archive for diplomata,<\/em> or diplomas<\/a>“) may mean that the unit undergoing dismemberment somehow carried that name, say as title, or was regarded as one.\u00a0 The format of the fragments establishes that its character as repository comprises copies of documents, not \u2014 at least in this portion \u2014 the documents themselves.<\/p>\n None of the references which I have found in other sources, such as editions, to a cartulary\u00a0 \u2014 or the like, with documents in book form\u00a0\u2014 from Selbold uses this term.\u00a0 Might applying Diplomatarium<\/em> to this fragment (or set of fragments) for sale constitute another sign of endeavoring to mask the true nature, title, and origin of the piecemeal offerings?\u00a0 On balance, in the light of available evidence, I am inclined to regard that supposition as very likely.<\/p>\n A pair of additions written in blue ink in a continental European hand label the leaves as “manuscript fragments” (Hs. Fragmente<\/em>) and provide the number (Nr. 63<\/em>) of some series or other.\u00a0 An addition in pencil in the upper right corner provides the price in an unspecified currency.<\/p>\n This leaf must have come from the seller’s German source for the item, directly or indirectly.<\/p>\n Note accompanying the Selbold Cartulary Fragments.<\/p><\/div>\n This Selbold Cartulary Fragment<\/span> came to its current collection perhaps, at some removes, from Schloss B\u00fcdingen<\/a> (or Schloss B\u00fcdingen<\/a>) in B\u00fcdingen<\/a> in Hessen.\u00a0 This edifice served as the Residence of the Grafschaft Isenburg<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to the present collector’s recollection (in correspondence), the fragments are “presumably from the dregs of that collection, like the rest of what the seller had in the way of cheap German material”, and the “documentation” (on the sheet illustrated above) accompanying the sale was in “similar style and handwriting, as from the same source”.\u00a0 One might presume “that the Schloss collection was where a lot of the local material wound up when the institutions were secularized or dissolved”.<\/p>\n Schloss B\u00fcdingen seen from the Schlosspark. Photograph by Hadig 2004. Via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n In examining the contents and the potential provenance of the Selbold Cartulary Fragment<\/span>, it is useful to keep in mind the complex interconnections, subdivisions, and influences of the aristocratic House of Isenburg<\/strong> through the centuries, along with its documentary records and domains.\u00a0 Brief accounts in English or German survey such aspects for consideration in terms of regions and dynasties as:<\/p>\n For example, under the first heading (County of Isenburg<\/a>), we learn that:<\/p>\n The House of Isenburg<\/b> was an old aristocratic family of medieval Germany, named after the castle of Isenburg<\/a> in Rhineland-Palatinate<\/a>. Occasionally referred to as the House of Rommersdorf before the 12th century, the house originated in the Hessian comitatus<\/em> of the Niederlahngau in the 10th century. It partitioned into the lines of Isenburg\u2013Isenburg and Isenburg\u2013Limburg\u2013Covern in 1137, before partitioning again into smaller units, but by 1500 only the lines of Isenburg\u2013B\u00fcdingen (in Upper Isenburg) and Lower Isenburg remained. In 1664 the Lower Isenburg branch died out. The B\u00fcdingen line continued to partition, and by the beginning of the 19th century the lines of Isenburg\u2013B\u00fcdingen, Isenburg\u2013Birstein, Isenburg\u2013Meerholz and Isenburg\u2013W\u00e4chtersbach existed. Today still exist the (Roman Catholic) princes of Isenburg (at Birstein<\/a>), the (Lutheran) princes of Ysenburg (at B\u00fcdingen<\/a> and Ronneburg<\/a>) and the (Lutheran) counts of Ysenburg\u2013Philippseich.<\/p>\n While here, we take note of the current locations for the Roman Catholic or Lutheran princes respectively of Isenburg at Birstein<\/a> and of Ysenburg at B\u00fcdingen<\/a>.<\/p>\n During the upheavals of the Reformation<\/a> in Germany, different factions, interest-groups, and spheres of influence may have sought to gather earlier records and\/or make copies of them for consultation and preservation, in the midst of dispersals or redistributions.\u00a0 Such efforts and activities appear to have affected the patterns of transmission of the cartulary records of Selbold, and to have partly interfered with the recognition of those patterns and their effects.<\/p>\n The leaves measure at the most circa 28.3 \u00d7 210 cm, with a written area of 20.6 \u00d7 15.5 cm.\u00a0 Laid out in single columns of 39 lines, the text is written in brown script by a single scribe, with embellishment in red pigment.\u00a0 The red pigment builds up the enlarged 2-line or 3-line initials of the copied documents, as well as the strokes which highlight and emphasize initials of phrases and names.<\/p>\n Private Collection, Selbold Cartulary Fragment, Folio 2 verso.<\/p><\/div>\n Private Collection, Selbold Cartulary Fragment, Folio 2 recto.<\/p><\/div>\n In the margins and within some lines there stand some annotations.\u00a0 Several cursive annotations in dark brown ink appear to be late medieval or early modern (on the bifolium of folios “2” and “3” r\u2013v). In the margins they signal, for example, some place-names in the text, as with Grinda<\/em> (on folio “2”v) and both Selbolder<\/em> and Hattenheim<\/em><\/a> (on folio “3”v).\u00a0 One entry (folio “3”r) appears to be, or to include, a cypher of some sort.<\/p>\n The others, written in bright red ink and in pencil, are modern.<\/p>\n The entries in red ink stand mostly in the outer margins, but also underline a name of interest within the text of one document (folio “2” v).\u00a0 They note the dates of the documents\u00a0\u2014 in arabic numerals for the year and the day, and with the word in German for the month\u00a0\u2014 in a single line in the outer margin, usually opposite the first line of the document. On folio “1”, however, that form of entry ignores the opening of the document at the top of the recto, and stands instead opposite the first line of the continuation of its text onto the verso, where is found the dating clause.\u00a0 Entries in the same red<\/span> pigment and script signal some personal names, as with Heinrich von Havelberg<\/span> in the upper margin above the document of 15 March 1151 (folio “1” r) and Gerlacus de B\u00fcdingen! \u2014 with exclamation, pl<\/span><\/span>us wavy underline for the name within the text itself\u00a0\u2014 within the first of 2 documents of 15 August 1217 (folio “2” v).<\/p>\n Selbold Cartulary Fragment, folio “1” recto upper portion. Text 1: Archbishop Heinrich I of Mainz, 25 May 1151.<\/p><\/div>\n Sometimes the red entry appears to get the date wrong, as might be the case with the second document (lowest on folio “1”v) and the last document (lowest on folio “3” v), for which latter the pencil entry lower down, rising diagonally to the right, is apparently correct.\u00a0 (Perhaps the result of new information in the progression of the research?)\u00a0 Likewise, the red note naming Heinrich von Havelberg<\/span> in the upper margin of folio “1”r perhaps conflates Heinrich I, Archbishop of Mainz<\/a>, named in the document, with his assistant in early years, the Premonstratensian Anselm of Havelberg<\/a> (circa 1100 \u2013 1158), who became Bishop of Havelberg and then Archbishop of Ravenna<\/a> (1155\u20131158).\u00a0 The Premonstratensian Abbey of Selbold and its modern record-keepers may have had reason to favor records of that Premonstratensian notable.<\/p>\n The pencil entries note the dates of the documents and briefly or enigmatically cite some 19th-century editions in which the texts are transcribed.\u00a0 The citations report variously the name of the editor and\/or edition (such as “Simon”, “Simon Urkundenbuch”, “Wenck”, etc.), a page (“Seite”) number, an assigned number (“Nr.”) for the document in an edition, or a combination of such elements \u2014 mainly intelligible for, or decipherable by, initiates in the fields of scholarly reference.\u00a0 To judge by the variable widths of strokes, alignments, and ductus of the pencil entries, the citations of editions appear to have been added in several stages, even with respect to individual documents, as the work of identifying the sources or resources advanced.<\/p>\n Selbold Cartulary Fragment, folio “3” recto lower portion.<\/p><\/div>\n The entries in red ink mainly retrace the relevant pencil entries of dates and names.\u00a0 The preceding pencil strokes remain partly visible outside the overdrawn contours of red ink.\u00a0 At the beginning of the document on folio “1” r, the pencil entry recording the date in the customary year\u2013month\u2013day order stands on its own, missed in the process of rubricating the selected modern notations.\u00a0 That rubricating stage perhaps aimed to enliven the manuscript, say for an owner or prospective buyer, after the research to identify the dates of its texts had come to completion.<\/p>\n The pencil notes and the writing of the names of editors or editions are so summary that deciphering them may have to “reverse engineer” the stages of acquaintance with those publications, by searching for likely publications, and then possibly confirming their accuracy, or searching further still.\u00a0 References to specific editions (insofar as they are identifiable) in the pencil notes establish termini post quem<\/em> (“dates after which”) the pencil entries were made.\u00a0 See below.\u00a0 At the earliest, they would be late 19th century, and more likely later.<\/p>\n The seller’s typescript Companion Note (seen above) lists the dates (or presumed dates) of documents in a chronological order and refers to an entry number in “Simon” for information regarding the “Prov.”, presumably the “Provenance” of the fragments.\u00a0 Perhaps the focus of attention exhibited in the Companion Note provides some clues for the selection of these 3 leaves as a unit for sale.<\/p>\n The restraint in the Note avoiding a direct name or location for the Provenance may be significant.\u00a0 Perhaps covering tracks?\u00a0 It is also infuriating from the perspectives of manuscript studies.<\/p>\n Private Collection, Selbold Cartulary Fragment, Folio 1 recto.<\/p><\/div>\n Private Collection, Selbold Cartulary Fragment, Folio 3 recto.<\/p><\/div>\n Different forms of damage demonstrate that the 2 portions of the fragment stood at different parts of the volume when it suffered water damage and mold.\u00a0 The single leaf (folio “1”) suffered water damage along both sides and across the bottom, with ‘ink lakes’ formed of runny ink leaving pronounced ‘tide lines’ at their ‘shores’.\u00a0 The 2 leaves of the bifolium (folios “2\u20133”) share a large darkened stain across the outer upper portion of each leaf, purplish stains from mold across the lower outer portion, and crumpled losses at the lower outer corner.<\/p>\n The water stains do not blur the marginal entries, although some of these entries occupy stained regions.\u00a0 Show-through from the red pigment entries in the margins affects the recto and verso of folio “2”.\u00a0\u00a0 For example, the 2 red pigment entries in the outer margin of folio “2”v, respectively opposite line 1 and opposite line 7 of the document of 15 August 1217, are not matched by any such entries on folio “3”r.<\/p>\n Suffice it to say that the 2 segments of the fragment come from different parts of the volume, with some now-lost leaves intervening between the single leaf and the bifolium.\u00a0 The small rounded hole, perhaps a wormhole, in the upper margin of folio “1” but unshared by the bifolium may demonstrate that the span of lost leaves had some or considerable distance.\u00a0 The 3 leaves stand as disparate representatives of a former manuscript of a Selbold Cartulary<\/span>, late-medieval in origin, written (at least partly) on paper, and dispersed for whatever reason(s).<\/p>\n The 1 + 2 leaves (singleton + bifolium) carry the transcriptions of their documents in 2 continuous series, but the 2 units are not continuous.\u00a0 A textual gap amounting to some leaves (number unknown) stands between them.<\/p>\n Always a skipped line stands between 1 document and the next.\u00a0 Usually the concluding clause for a given document stands as a separate “paragraph” or section, beginning its own line afresh at a distance of 1 skipped line below the body of the document proper.\u00a0 In one exception, at the top of folio “3” verso, the dating clause continues directly in the same line (v1).<\/p>\n Each document begins with an inset 2- or 3-line initial made in red pigment, in the form of a Roman or Gothic Capital.\u00a0 Written in ink, with an added stroke of red pigment, the next letter is an enlarged and usually Gothic Capital.\u00a0 Thus the opening of the document presents a brief dimuendo<\/em> of 2 enhanced letters to the main text.<\/p>\n Preston Charters, Faces. Photograph Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n The script and layout make no distinctions in style of presentation between the different documents.\u00a0 They acquire a uniformity of appearance within the cartulary structure \u2014 their opening initials included.<\/p>\n (Examples in our blog of the differences in appearance between documents of different dates relating to a specific location or region appear in our posts on the “Preston Charters”, as with Preston Charters Continued<\/a>.\u00a0 A profound case of a book-form manuscript, or “booklet”, written by a single scribe reproducing facsimile-like copies of a series of different texts, whose exemplars evidently differed markedly from each other in layout, structure, style, and dates of production, can be seen in the Liber Commonei<\/em> within Saint Dunstan’s ‘Classbook’<\/em>, closely examined here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n This leaf carries the transcripts of 2 documents, nearly complete.\u00a0 The first begins at the top of the recto, and continues to the first lines of the verso.\u00a0 The second fills the rest of the page, and comes close to completing its course at the end of the last line of the column, within the dating clause.<\/p>\n Recto<\/strong><\/p>\n Private Collection, Selbold Cartulary Fragment, Folio 1 recto.<\/p><\/div>\n Verso<\/strong><\/p>\n Private Collection, Selbold Cartulary Fragment, Folio 1 verso.<\/p><\/div>\n The bifolium carries a continuous series of 6 texts, starting at the top of its first recto.<\/p>\n Recto<\/strong><\/p>\n Selbold Cartulary Fragment, Folio 2r.<\/p><\/div>\n Verso<\/strong><\/p>\n Private Collection, Selbold Cartulary Fragment, Folio 2 verso.<\/p><\/div>\n Recto<\/strong><\/p>\n Private Collection, Selbold Cartulary Fragment, Folio 3 recto.<\/p><\/div>\n Verso<\/strong><\/p>\n Private Collection, Selbold Cartulary Fragment, Folio 3 verso.<\/p><\/div>\n Folio “2” has a watermark, which stands upright on the leaf as employed for the text.<\/p>\n The watermark depicts a cluster of grapes.\u00a0 The bulbous grapes form rows to either side of the contours of the undulating stem.\u00a0 The stem forms a loop at the top, as it appears to pass “behind” itself in rising to one side (seen this way round, to the left) beyond the loop.<\/p>\n Grapes Watermark in a Selbold Cartulary Fragment.<\/p><\/div>\n The watermark with Scale and Back-Lighting<\/strong><\/p>\n The stem of the cluster forms a loop at the top, as it appears to pass “behind” itself in rising to one side (seen this way round, to the left) beyond the loop.\u00a0\u00a0 The grapes form rows to either side of the contours of the undulating stem.<\/p>\n Grapes Watermark in a Selbold Cartulary Fragment, with Back-Lighting and Scale.<\/p><\/div>\n According to the standard of Briquet Online<\/a>, which supplies a searchable version of the text and images in the monumental reference work by Charles Mo\u00efse Briquet<\/a> (1839\u20131918) in his Dictionnaire historique des filigranes<\/em> (Geneva, 4 volumes, 1907), this watermark belongs within Briquet’s class of Fruit<\/em>, sub-group Rasin<\/em> (“Grape”), variety \u00e0 grosse tige<\/em> (“with large stem”).<\/p>\n Briquet, Les Filigranes, Nr. 13003.<\/p><\/div>\n Among Briquet’s specimens, the watermark in the fragment comes closest to Number 13003<\/a>, found in “M\u00fcnchen 1478” etc., with multiple sightings reported<\/a>.\u00a0 That watermark was used in a wide range of dating contexts, from circa 1370 to 1509, and mostly in the 1420s to 1480s, so that here the watermark itself does not help especially with dating the manuscript.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nSelbold (or Langen-Selbold) in Hessen<\/h2>\n
![\"Stifterfigur](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Fotothek_df_roe-neg_0006470_029_Stifterfigur_Graf_Dietmar_im_Naumburger_Dom_St-194x300.jpg\")
The Cartulary Fragment<\/span><\/h2>\n
![\"Prague,](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Charles_IV-John_Ocko_votive_picture-fragment-202x300.jpg\")
The Companion Note<\/h3>\n
![\"Note](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Note-accompanying-Selbold-Fragments.jpg\")
The Provenance or Implied Provenance<\/h3>\n
![\"Schloss](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Schloss_Buedingen_aussen.jpg\")
Isenburg, Ysenburg, B\u00fcdingen, Birstein<\/h2>\n
\n
The Selbold Cartulary Fragment(s)<\/span><\/h2>\n
The Added Notations<\/h4>\n
![\"Private](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Selbold-2-verso-224x300.jpg\")
![\"Private](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Selbold-2-recto-224x300.jpg\")
![\"Selbold](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Selbold-fol-1r-upper.jpg\")
![\"Selbold](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Selbold-fol-3r-lower-King-Adolf-12-July-1296.jpg\")
The Condition<\/h2>\n
![\"Private](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Selbold-1-recto-224x300.jpg\")
![\"Private](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Selbold-3-recto-224x300.jpg\")
The Leaves<\/h2>\n
![\"Preston](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Sorenson-Preston-Charters-Series-Faces-cropped-300x211.png\")
Folio “1”<\/h3>\n
![\"Private](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Selbold-1-recto-763x1024.jpg\")
![\"Private](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Selbold-1-verso-763x1024.jpg\")
The Bifolium<\/h3>\n
Folio “2”<\/h3>\n
![\"Folio](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Selbig-Cartulary-2r-763x1024.jpg\")
![\"Private](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Selbold-2-verso-763x1024.jpg\")
Folio “3”<\/h3>\n
![\"Private](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Selbold-3-recto-763x1024.jpg\")
![\"Private](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Selbold-3-verso-763x1024.jpg\")
The Watermark<\/h2>\n
![\"Grapes](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/wmark-symp-13.jpg\")
![\"Grapes](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Selbold-watermark-with-scale.jpg\")
![\"Briquet,](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Briquet-13003-cropped-more-680x1024.png\")