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My last hour: a drama in four five parts, to be followed by supper:
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The monks who wrote the foundation charter of La Trinité, Combourg:
"These gifts were most honorably made at Combourg with very many people, whose names we have taken care to include in this document, listening and watching as witnesses."
Étienne Baluze, the early-modern Jesuit compiler of the Baluze collection, who made one of the three surviving partial copies of the foundation charter of La Trinité, Combourg:
"Here follow the names of a large number of witnesses, now useless." *OMITS ALL NAMES*
Me:
*FLIPS TABLES* *HEADDESKS FOREVER*
Dom Pierre-Hyacinthe Morice de Beaubois, Maurist compiler of the Mémoires pour servir de preuves a l'histoire de Bretagne, including the second of the three surviving partial copies of the foundation charter of La Trinité, Combourg:
"The witnesses are recorded below here: the mark of Riuallon. the mark of Aremburgis his wife. the mark of William his son (NB: my guy William of Dol). the mark of Gelduin his son. the mark of Inoguent his sister, [list continues extensively]. Truly as it is fitting, you are worthy of being heard in prayers, but also valued in work."
Me:
I'm not the unhappy victim of early modern archival practices after all, or at least, not this time! Alleluia, amen!
Exit all, in search of baguette.
This entry was originally posted at http://monksandbones.dreamwidth.org/670835.html. Talk to me here or there, whichever you prefer.
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The monks who wrote the foundation charter of La Trinité, Combourg:
"These gifts were most honorably made at Combourg with very many people, whose names we have taken care to include in this document, listening and watching as witnesses."
Étienne Baluze, the early-modern Jesuit compiler of the Baluze collection, who made one of the three surviving partial copies of the foundation charter of La Trinité, Combourg:
"Here follow the names of a large number of witnesses, now useless." *OMITS ALL NAMES*
Me:
*FLIPS TABLES* *HEADDESKS FOREVER*
Dom Pierre-Hyacinthe Morice de Beaubois, Maurist compiler of the Mémoires pour servir de preuves a l'histoire de Bretagne, including the second of the three surviving partial copies of the foundation charter of La Trinité, Combourg:
"The witnesses are recorded below here: the mark of Riuallon. the mark of Aremburgis his wife. the mark of William his son (NB: my guy William of Dol). the mark of Gelduin his son. the mark of Inoguent his sister, [list continues extensively]. Truly as it is fitting, you are worthy of being heard in prayers, but also valued in work."
Me:
I'm not the unhappy victim of early modern archival practices after all, or at least, not this time! Alleluia, amen!
Exit all, in search of baguette.
This entry was originally posted at http://monksandbones.dreamwidth.org/670835.html. Talk to me here or there, whichever you prefer.