Cartulary

How it is used

A cartulary preserves selected copies, not necessarily the original documents or the entire archive.

Example sentences

1. The monastery's cartulary copied grants concerning its mills and fields.

   An institution gathers documentary support for its possessions.

2. The missing charter survives only as a copy in the cartulary.

   A copied text can survive after its original has disappeared.

Common collocations

• a monastic cartulary
• compile a cartulary

Related terms

• manuscriptA book or document written by hand, especially one produced before printing became common; also an author's text before it is published.
• archiveA collection of historical records kept for long-term use, or the building or institution where such records are stored and made available to researchers.

More terms: Sources and Archives

• primary source
• secondary source
• bias
• census
• chronicle
• source criticism
• oral history
• inscription
• provenance
• archivist
• palaeography
• diplomatics