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Is it an ownership inscription of some kind, or does it give an insight into how the cartulary was made or used? But what does it say? We'd love your thoughts. While we were cataloguing the manuscript, we noticed this late medieval note in the upper part of the page at the end, that someone has tried to erase, very effectively as it happens. 55v) reveals that the nuns asked John Laurence, a public notary, to make a transcript of their charters, because of their age and out of fear of English invasion, which meant they were more susceptible to burning or other accidents. 1214–1249), and several of the Earls of Dunbar. The cartulary was made in 1434 for the Cistercian nuns of Coldingham in Scotland, and it contains copies of a number of documents, including a charter of Alexander II, King of Scots (r.

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You can read more about the project in this blogpost and you can view the cartulary in full on the British Library's Digitised Manuscripts site ( Harley MS 6670). Hot off the press is this ultraviolet image of one of the manuscripts in our Medieval and Renaissance Women project, the cartulary of Coldingham Priory. A few of the manuscripts in the collection have been highlighted here, and boy are they showstoppers - lavish illustrations, intricately carved ivory and precious metal covers, hymnals, psalters and a phenomenal bestiary.Do you fancy yourself as some sort of medieval detective? Then this might be just the right thing for you. There are also pieces on the wider background of illumination, book-making, science and learning in the Middle Ages. Articles on subjects like medieval legal, medical and musical writing place the works in their historical context and significance. The BL portal presents a selection of manuscripts.

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Manuscript pages can be downloaded as individual images or the entire manuscript can be download as a PDF. They can be annotated online and the annotations downloaded as json files for sharing. Manuscripts can be viewed side-by-side for comparison. They are grouped according to themes, authors, places and centuries for ease of navigation and can be searched in English, French and Italian. The BnF portal provides access to all 800 manuscripts. With this corpus being of undisputable scientific interest, the programme is also characterised by several manuscript recovery operations: digitisation, online dissemination, restoration, scientific description and even mediation. Among these manuscripts are a few precious, sumptuously illuminated examples such as the Benedictional of Winchester around the year 1000, the Bible de Chartres around 1140 or the Great Canterbury Anglo-Catalan Psalter produced circa 1200. Produced between the eighth and the end of the twelfth century, they cover a wide range of subjects, illustrating intellectual production during the early middle ages and the Roman period. They are also of unique artistic, historical or literary interest. The manuscripts have been selected for their historical significance in terms of relations between France and England during the Middle Ages.

The carefully curated collection features works created in Medieval England and France between 7 A.D. To make some of these masterpieces accessible to the general public, both libraries worked together with funding from the Polonsky Foundation, a charitable organization that focuses on preserving and sharing cultural heritage primarily through the digitizing of important collections.

The BL and BnF have the largest collections of medieval illuminated manuscripts in the world.

England and France may have had one or two little issues with each other in the Middle Ages, but all is forgiven now and 800 medieval illuminated manuscripts have been digitized and made available to the public on the websites of the British Library and Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

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