Documents that shouldn't survive: preservation

from before the archive in Catalonia and elsewhere

Jonathan JarrettInternational Medieval CongressUniversity of Leeds 7 July 2008

Problems and Possibilities of Early Medieval Diplomatic, II: was it filed or

was it lost?

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A charter from the Urgell cathedral archive, 840

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Romanesque portal of the abbey church of St-Pierre de Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne (image from Wikipedia (France), licensed under the GPL)

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Monastery of Sant Pere de Casserres, built 1006

Biblioteca Universitària de Barcelona, Biblioteca de Reserva, Pergamins C (Sant Pere de Casserres) 3

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Apse and tower of the Romanesque church of Sant Andreu de Gurb

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Exterior of the transept of the Abbey church of Cluny (image taken from Wikipedia (France) under the GPL)

Totals of documents at Cluny Discounts

104 prior to foundation less 5 royal documents

leaving 99 less 1 founder’s family transaction

leaving 98 less 5 abbot’s family transactions

leaving 93 less 17 in 4 dossiers that clearly come to Cluny

leaving 76 less 3 single transfers which clearly come to Cluny

leaving 73 less 11 single transfers which eventually somehow come to Cluny

leaving 62 of which 17 apparently in 7 dossiers whose link to Cluny not documented

leaving 45 inexplicable in any terms as yet

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Freising

King Alfons I and his chancellor with charters and scribe in the Arxiu Comtal de Barcelona,

from the Liber Feudorum Maior