Beschreibung:

Collection of charters and illuminated manuscript leaves and fragments, in Latin, French, English and Dutch, on vellum a collection of 13 items, the documents: (a) Grant by Robert, 'dominus de Petraponte', lord of Pierrepont, dépt. Aisne, his mother Clementia and his wife Eustachia to the community 'de valle sancti petri', the abbey of Val Saint Pierre, near Vervins, of all freedom of taxes, 242mm. by 105mm., 24 lines in a fine and on occasion elaborate early Gothic hand in Latin, some minor water damage to top, else in good condition, dated 1190; (b) Deed of Gift by Robert de Maunton, 'viker del Esglise de Eccles', ie. Eccles in Lancs., and John Cupper, chaplain, to five other men of the manor of 'Slaghtwayt', Slaithwaite, southwest of Huddersfield, in trust to enfeoff John son of William Cay for life, 205mm. by 222mm., remains of 30 lines in good secretarial hand in French, with five intact seals of the beneficaries: the first with capital 'R' within a shield, the second armorial shield with clasped hands, the third ecclesiastical, a kneeling figure before a saint within a church with partial legend S[ ] IO DE STOLES P, the fourth and fifth armorial within decorated rings (each 20mm. to 25mm. in width), in excellent condition and framed, dated 7 January 1376; (c) Quitclaim by Robert Deyghere of Crewkerne, Somerset, and his wife Avicia, to Sir Thomas Brooke all of rights in the manor of Weycroft, nr Axminster, 250mm. by 120mm., in Latin, witnessed with seal of Forde Abbey (Cistercian foundation now in Dorset), now damaged and with another seal tag present but no seal, good condition, laid down on card, dated 23 November 1395; (d) Grant to William Hobson, cleric and master of the College of Cobham of property in Cobham for a payment of £4 to be made in the local church, 312mm. by 142mm., in Latin, with the seals of the two witnesses intact, dated 10 January 1465; (e) Sale by Piers Maynwaryng 'yeoman of the Coronne' to John Morecotte of land and an inn in Markyate, Herts., called 'the Signe of the Belle', on the provision that the owner keep up a chapel to the Virgin on the side of the building, 280mm. by 390mm., in Middle English, slight discolouration to localised areas, else good with seal tags present, dated 8 December 1502; (f) Grant by Elizabeth Otley, widow of London, of her late husband's revenue from tithes, originally held by the abbey of Catesby, Northants., for 21 years, and transferred to them by Henry VIII on 20 March 1537, 340mm. by 400mm., in Latin, some creasing and a few small holes, else fair, dated 12 December 1546; the leaves and fragments from medieval manuscripts: a leaf from an illuminated Psalter, 142mm. by 95mm., with one 2-line gold initial on coloured grounds and 18 smaller initials in gold and blue, northern France, late thirteenth century; a bifolium from a small illuminated breviary, each leaf 115mm. by 150mm., with 15 gold initials on coloured grounds, northern France, fifteenth century; a leaf from an illuminated Book of Hours, 109mm. by 152mm., in Dutch, with one 2-line gold initial, laid on nineteenth-century card and bought at Mr. Wallace's Church Bazaar in Glasgow on 27 December 1861, Netherlands, fifteenth century; and four fragments of a liturgical or legal nature, thirteenth or fourteenth century, recovered from bindings and hence somewhat defective