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▪ I. chartulary1|ˈkɑːtjʊlərɪ| Also spelt cartulary, q.v. [ad. med.L. chartulārium (cartu-) repository of charters, f. chartula charter: see -ary.] A collection or set of charters; particulary, the large volume, or set of volumes, containing a duplicate copy of all charters, title-deeds, and like documents, belonging to a monastery, corporation, or other land-owner; a (private) register of charters. Also applied to a modern printed edition of such a register or collection. (Some have erroneously confounded chartulary with charter: see Todd. Johnson's explanation ‘A place where papers or records are kept’ gives the radical sense of L. chartularium, but appears not to be in use in Eng.)
1571Campion Hist. Irel. (1633) Pref. 2 Diverse manuscripts, Annales and Chartularies. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 697 He brought forth five antient MSS. in folio, which were Chartularies of the Lordships and Lands first given to the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London. 1700Tyrrell Hist. Eng. II. 835 Publish'd from an Original in the Chartulary of St. Giles. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) I. 148 M. Guerard..the learned editor of the chartulary of Chartres. 1873Burton Hist. Scot. I. xi. 369 The ecclesiastical chartularies or collections of title deeds. 1884Athenæum 16 Aug. 209/1 He does not know the difference between an indenture and a chartulary, between a deed on a single membrane and a register of numerous writings. ▪ II. ˈchartulary2 [ad. L. chartulāri-us keeper of the archives, f. chartula: see prec.] A keeper of the archives; he who had charge of the records.
1678–1706in Phillips. 1708–21Kersey. 1721–1800Bailey, Chartulary, a keeper of a register-roll or Reckoning-Book. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) II. iv. vi. 318 Maurice the chartulary harangued the soldiers. |