The Cartulary of Vauluisant: A Critical Edition (1996 Revision) (original) (raw)
1994, The Cartulary of Vauluisant: A Critical Edition
MA thesis from 1994, consisting of a critical edition of the Cartulary of Vauluisant, largely contained in MS Paris, BnF latin 9901, and surviving charters contemporary to the cartulary, preserved in the Archives nationales and the Archives Départementales de l'Yonne (Auxerre) et de Troyes. An historical study and a history of the codex provide an introduction. During the course of the research, I was made aware of the existence of a fragment from the Cartulary in Archives nationales, AB XIX 1734. Two years later, I was able to consult the fragment. The 1996 revision incorporates those findings (#415-420], and provides non-standard thesis formatting (single spacing instead of double spacing) to reduce the size of the document. In 2023, I found and scanned the images used for the figures. Those from the Cartulary I replaced with images taken from the retro-digitization of the microfilm of latin 9901.
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